Roots of the Sky

Home is another word for niche

Challenging a prevailing story of how soils are built and, in the process, challenging the centuries-old, materialist story of how the world is built

Aug 5 • 

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March 2025

Wrong fork in the road: the problem with human exceptionalism

Trying to reconcile Western Science with Aboriginal Cosmology

Mar 8 • 

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December 2024

Moisture Recycling - Roots of the Sky, p2: The Amazon Rainforest

The namesake post for my Substack – the entry I’ve been planning and working towards for more than a year now – is finally here.

Dec 30, 2024 • 

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October 2024

Moisture Recycling: Roots of the Sky, Pt.1 - The Piedmont and Coastal Loblolly Forests of North Carolina

Trees help make rain to re-water themselves and sometimes, it is a last ditch, hopeful attempt to stave off complete dehydration.

Oct 6, 2024 • 

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June 2024

The Push-me, pull-you of plant water: circulation without a heart

Plant and ecosystem resilience is built from diversity – diversity within individuals, diversity between individuals and across species.

Jun 23, 2024 • 

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May 2024

Pedogenesis: Making a Home

The world is so diverse because it is made up of individuals confronting and improving their unique circumstances through cooperation, evolution and…

May 3, 2024 • 

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March 2024

Plant Brains and Root Architecture

What began as an engineering comparison of the soils under native plant communities and culivated land has turned into an investigation into what it…

Mar 17, 2024 • 

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January 2024

Ecohydrology: The Relationship between Earth and Sky

An observation by Robert Horton more than 90-years ago gave birth to a discipline that is providing some meaningful insights today about our place on…

Jan 31, 2024 • 

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December 2023

Why Study the Rooting Zone?

The story of earth-building and water cycling starts in the rooting zone.

Dec 31, 2023 • 

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August 2023

The Compromises of Green Infrastructure

Recognizing a gap between the promise and the reality of low impact development has helped drive my obssessions with ecohydrolgy and the 'rooting zone…

Aug 15, 2023 • 

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