The Natural Capital is a celebration of the wealth of nature right here under our noses in the Nation's Capital. We aim to open your eyes to the amazing plants, animals, and scenery in our region – much of it accessible by public transportation.
Natural Capital is also a concept in environmental economics: the concept that the ecosystem that sustains and surrounds us has inherent, but tragically overlooked, value. We need trees, for example, because they provide clean air and clean water. They are also beautiful, and the beauty of nature has value as well. Which brings us back to the purpose of this blog: getting outside to enjoy it all.
Here's our target schedule:
- Mondays: a calendar of hiking and other naturalist activities in the coming week offered by organizations such as the Sierra Club, the Audubon Naturalist Society, and several others.
- Wednesdays: a post highlighting a specific resource that might be helpful to you as you get outside in DC.
- Fridays: an item of the week to look for while you're out over the weekend…a flower that's blooming, a bird just back from migration, or other natural phenomena.
On no particular schedule, we will give you musings on miscellaneous outdoorsy topics, updates on local environmental issues, or other things that interest us.
Your authors:
Elizabeth Hargrave spends half her week working as a health policy researcher. That leaves the other half free for hiking, gardening, and boning up on natural history.
Matt Cohen is founder of the eco-landscaping business Matt's Habitats, and a naturalist who leads hikes for several organizations in the DC metro area. He also serves on the board of the Maryland Native Plant Society.We've been exploring the outdoors together since 2000, and hope to bring you a glimpse of all the wonderful things we've found in the DC area.
Comments? Questions? Ideas for future posts? Contact us at thenaturalcapital@gmail.com.
3 comments/questions:
What a great initiative here. I'll look around the site and see if I can offer any additional ideas. Thanks.
What a great source of information!
I'm new to the area and am so pleased to find this gathering of good ideas for getting away from the concrete and scary driving.
You've given me hope that I'll survive this move from the Pacific Northwest.
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much for finding me on Twitter. Love the concept of your blog & am looking forward to following you on it/Twitter & hopefully connecting by phone/email/in-person sometime too. :)
(You found my personal Twitter, but please follow my DC area "plant-based holistic wellness for smarties" Twitter instead as it's more relevant: @smartyplants)
Peace + Sunshine,
Jocelyn
http://smartyplants.tumblr.com
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