Monthly Archives: November 2009


Networking extension

Sorry guys, I got swamped recently and wasn’t able to get the weekly Networking post up this week.  But that just means another opportunity for you all to get your favorite Southwestern Nature Blogs to me at naswick AT gmail DOT com for inclusion in next week’s edition. So blogs from Arizona, New Mexico, west [...]

Featured Blog: The Grass Stain Guru

Bethe Almeras is an award-winning author and educator with a passion for play and for helping people connect with nature. When she isn’t writing, she loves to travel, meet friends for margaritas, or chatter with the neighborhood squirrels. You can learn more about Bethe on her blog, The Grass Stain Guru, and follow her on [...]

Community Bulletin Board – November 15, 2009

The BwBTC outing in Sacramento is next weekend – be sure to sign up this week if you want to join in! Details below. Don’t forget, the NBN board isn’t just for announcing events! If you have contests or promotions, want to share a new project you’re involved in, share a cause you believe in, [...]

Friday Roundup: November 13, 2009

Friday the 13th got you down?  For lovers of nature carnivals, it’s your lucky day. –====– Carnival of the Blue #30 – Better late than never at Oh! for the love of Science I and the Bird #113 – A quotable edition at The Modern Naturalist Friday Ark #269 – at The Modulator

Carny Deadlines: November 10, 2009

I and the Bird #113 – to The Modern Naturalist by the end of the day today! Friday Ark #269 – to The Modulator by Thursday, November 5 Carnival of Evolution #18 – to Hoxful Monsters by November 29 Circus of the Spineless #44 – to Greg Laden’s Blog by November 29 Berry Go Round #22 [...]

Nature Blog Networking: Nature in your Garden

Last week I gave you half of the story with regard to the “backyard” themed blogs in the NBN, those based in the United States. This week we travel abroad, as close as across the northern border to beyond any number of oceans to see what the rest of the community is seeing just outside [...]

Featured Blog: Yours

“Why do you blog?” I ask this question of every featured blogger, and the results are interesting as well as  diverse. I asked my NBN partner before she joined the team: Seabrooke, Why do you blog? I’ve been writing to the web since 2002, primarily on a personal basis, as a way to keep in [...]

Community Bulletin Board – November 8, 2009

Don’t forget, the NBN board isn’t just for announcing events! If you have contests or promotions, want to share a new project you’re involved in, share a cause you believe in, have items you wish to sell, want to solicit feedback from the NBN community, or anything else that might be of interest to our [...]

Friday Roundup: November 6, 2009

Lots of carnivals filled with NBN members this last week.  Enjoy! –=====– Festival of the Trees #41 – A bilingual edition at Avores Vives Scientia Pro Publica #15 – Observations of a Nerd covers the latest in science for the people Carnival of Evolution #17 – The Origin of Species Anniversary edition at Adaptive Complexity [...]

Support for the Discouraged

We’re all friends here, right? Of course we are. Blogging friends attend to the micro-publishing portions of our souls, those parts of us that crave, secretly or otherwise, online attention, followers, subscribers, links, and traffic. Friends pick us up when we’re down and tell us the truth even when it hurts. Because we’re all friends, [...]