by Jerry Riverstone | Feb 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
How to Use and Support Evolution-Local Use it to learn and shift your consciousness. Drop in from time to time and check out everything in the Toolkit, Blog, Discussion Forum and other sections. Hone your local evolutionary worldview. Use it to share and teach. Share...
by Jerry Riverstone | Oct 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
A happy-face spider found beneath a large Himalayan ginger leaf, at the edge of the Waikamoi Preserve on Haleakala. Complete with a mass of eggs and a shriveled up fly.These spiders are one of the evolutionary wonders of Maui. See...
by Jerry Riverstone | Sep 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
This summer was another nail-biter here on Maui, with one major storm after another heading our way from the eastern Pacific. We were spared -- again, and again!
by Alohajedi | Aug 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Introducing the Local Political Tracker Background Imagine a world in which the top priority of our institutions of government is to facilitate the Great Work of our age: reintegrating human beings with the entire web of life, and maintaining a viable planet for...
by Alohajedi | Aug 19, 2016 | Evolution Local
How to Use and Support Evolution-Local Use it to learn and shift your consciousness. Drop in from time to time and check out everything in the Toolkit, Blog, Discussion Forum and other sections. Hone your local evolutionary worldview. Use it to share and teach....
by Jerry Riverstone | Aug 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
Some slight movement caught my eye. Turned out to be a pair of pale blue butterflies doing a circular mating dance.I love the rich detail, the false eyespots and antennae, the shaggy wing edges, the powerful little feet, and the exquisite clumsiness of the whole...
by Jerry Riverstone | Aug 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
Japanese white eye visits Wiliwili blossoms -- A'apueo Gulch. I wonder which of the native birds might have visited these flowers? The white-eyes do knock a bunch of blossoms off the trees -- I think they are going for insects -- not sure if there is any nectar that...
by Jerry Riverstone | Jul 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
Took the Girl Scouts camping and on Friday morning we hiked the Pipiwai Trail up Oheo Gulch above the Seven Sacred Pools. After a short hike we reached the lookout for the mist-shrouded Makahiku Falls. Against the brilliant green backdrop of the bamboo forest, the...
by Jerry Riverstone | Jul 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
There had been much ado about the approach of Tropical Storm Darby, and I admit part of me was looking forward to something exciting. Since the Aapueo Gulch burned last month we have had a dry summer, with only the briefest of rain showers. Until this morning when the...
by Jerry Riverstone | Jul 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
Out over the gulch's sloping wall are towering clouds of gnats in the late afternoon light. Sometimes they briefly organize into a vortex shape, before dissipating back into a chaotic cloud. Ephemeral moments of order and splendor.