Reading · Education · Making
Turning discovery into another person’s entrance.
From a nearby observation to a larger question
Members read conservation biology papers and write about the Anthropocene, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, International Biodiversity Day, artificial intelligence, and conservation. Reading connects our observations in Beijing with climate, biodiversity, social justice, and governance.
These are student works of learning and expression. They do not replace original papers or professional research.
“They are together in the first place.”
In a park in Changping, a child saw a sticker of an insect on a flower and did not know whether to put it with animals or plants. Another child worried that birds would not have enough mulberries after people picked them. Questions grew from observation and made the high school leaders learn how to speak about nature again.
Let an encounter travel home.
Badges, coins, postcards, and transparencies begin with lives we have observed. “Nasha Senjian” means life in the mountain forest. These works give a bird call, a species name, and care for life a tangible form after fieldwork.
