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I’ve always passed by the Sound and Moving Image Library in my years at York University but have never had the ability or found a purpose of entering it until this semester in my Applied Plant Ecology Course. In fact, we had the pleasure of taking a tour down there with the class and IContinue reading “My Visit to the Sound and Image Library”

WALL-E is a fun movie for all ages made by Pixar Animation Studios in 2008 about a seemingly lifeless planet Earth in the 29th century. Humanity had fled the planet and left behind robots named “WALL-E” to clean up the mess that was made as a result of human consumerism. Eventually, plant life was detectedContinue reading “WALL-E: a fun Applied Plant Ecology film”

It’s great that people like Dawn Bazely, a biology and ecology professor at York University, take the time out of their schedules to sit down ad have a chat to record a podcast for others to listen in. There is so much to learn from guests of podcasts, and Dr. Bazely was recently able toContinue reading “Advice from a podcast featuring Dawn Bazely”

“Wikipedian” is a neat little title I can now call myself after having done my first wikipedia edit. I edited the page of the Native Plant Trust, an organization based in the USA dedicated to the conservation of the New England area’s native plant species which, prior to my edit, only had a few linesContinue reading “Experience as a Wikipedian”

Agriculture and food is something I believe most of us take for granted at some point in our lives, even if for a short moment. Perhaps not everyone really needs to know that the global food supply comprises mainly of 14 plant species, but everyone should at least take a moment to stop, think, andContinue reading “Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security”

Have a read over Tansley’s paper on competition between two Galium plant species on different soils from 1917 and you might notice something missing – statistics! It’s important to include some kind of statistical analyses in an experiment as it allows us to identify if there are any meaningful trends and determine if the resultsContinue reading “Tansley (1917) – what’s mising?”

Janaki Ammal was regarded as the first Indian woman botanist. Born in 1897 in the Indian state of Kerala, Tellicherry (now Thalassery), she devoted her life to studying biology and botany, and later cytology. EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION Growing up with her parents, her six brothers and five sisters, she was always encouraged by herContinue reading “Janaki Ammal: The Legendary Botanist”

Sustainable agriculture is the way of immersing farming into a way that protects the natural environment while improving the production of agricultural products. It directly removes the industrialization of the farming industry and rejects the idea of large scale monocrop harvesting. Sustainable agriculture introduces the use of multicrop plots in order to increase biodiversity whileContinue reading “How does Sustainable Agriculture help everyone?”