Bugs are Us

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What the fireflies teach me
by Jennifer McGuiggan
thewordcellar.blogspot.com/2008/08/lessons-from-lightning-bugs.html

• Magic is happening all around you. (look: here. and over here. there. here and here. look.)
• Fences are artificial divisions. There is no real difference between my land and yours.
• Not all creepy crawlies are scary.
• There's always room and time to play.
• There's light in the darkness if only we can see it.
• Joy and wonder are ours for the taking and giving.
  
• Even the most ordinary-looking little thing is full of unexpected possibility.
• Whimsy is not limited to little children.
  

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From:
Microbes as Climate Engineers
by David S. Reay
Microbiology Today Feb 2008
www.socgenmicrobiol.org.uk/pubs/micro_today/pdf/020811.pdf
...Microbes will continue as climate
engineers long after humans have
burned that final barrel of oil. Whether
they help us to avoid dangerous climate
change in the 21st century or push us
even faster towards it is dependent on
just how well we understand them...
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The Charcoal Vision: A Win–Win–Win Scenario for Simultaneously Producing Bioenergy, Permanently Sequestering Carbon, while Improving Soil and Water Quality
David A. Laird
USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Soil Tilth Laboratory
agron.scijournals.org/cgi/content/full/100/1/178
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