Hi Tom!

 

Me on NPR? Seems unlikely. I did do a radio/NPR interview for the Cincinnati Zoo a couple of months ago (its on my website) but I can't imagine they play it nationally.

 

All is well here. Actually, getting amazingly busy, both in the US and internationally.

Anything ever come from the Houston connection?

 

Regards to the family (I still imagine your kids as small but they must be middle-aged by now!)

 

Rob

 

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Subject: Re: [AZH] ZHCD Botanical NEWS for March

Rob,

Hope all is well. I thought I heard you on NPR yesterday. Tom

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Rob Halpern <rob@...> wrote:

Celebrating Plants and the Planet:

 

March is a changeable month. In like a Panthera leo, out like a Ovis aries or something like that. There are massive changes underway in our natural environments. Some seem for the worse, but perhaps others can be for the best.

March's links at www.zooplantman.com  (NEWS/Botanical News) look at changes in Nature…big and small.

                                                                                        

·         Begin near the beginning. When flowering plants appeared about 100 million years ago, everything began to change: they created the conditions for the rise of pollinators, frogs, mammals and more.

·         Can conservatives cope with change? Apparently no, at least not if they are plant species that evolved to fit their habitats. A new study warns that global warming could eliminate most Southern hemisphere plant species.

·         What would happen to a forest if all the birds disappeared and seeds were no longer dispersed? Researchers went to Guam to find out.

·         Why did the pollinator cross the clearing? It didn't, and that is part of the current pollinator crisis.

·         Can marginal areas produce crops for human food, commercial salt, biodiesel while removing carbon from the atmosphere in record amounts? Yes, if they are planted with Salicornia.

Technology is also changing at a head-spinning rate. To make sense of it all, I turned to Jon Stewart and the Daily Show:  http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=219519&title=twitter-frenzy

Please share these stories with associates, staff, docents and -- most importantly -- visitors! Remember, over a hundred other stories can be found in the archive section of the website.

Rob

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