Join Mabry-Hazen House for Dusk in the Dogwoods, the new annual fundraiser and spring season celebration, on Thursday, April 11, from 6-9 p.m. The museum invites everyone to join friends, …
Health advisory for Mead’s Quarry Lake
Don’t go playing in a pink pond.
Mead’s Quarry Lake at Ijams Nature Center is experiencing a temporary bloom of Planktothrix rubescens, a cyanobacterium that produces microcystin, a metabolite that can …
STEM camp with solar
What does it take to build a sustainable school these days? A group of third through fifth graders in South Knoxville accepted the challenge as part of their spring break …
Fraser Sedge in full bloom on West Prong Trail
Wildflower Report – West Prong Trail – Beginning to Campsite #18 – 18 March 2024
Blue Cohosh – 1 Bloom – Few budded – about 6/10 of a mile up the …
It’s a grand life if you don’t weaken
A favorite saying of a cousin of mine has been echoing in my head recently: “It’s a grand life if you don’t weaken.” Ever curious me looked up the origin …
Renewable energy research
How can the world more efficiently harness the clean energy it needs from the sun or other sources? What will renewable energy systems look like another decade from now? Will …
Semi-tractor trailers and me
The morning in 1993 that I pulled out in front of an 18-wheeler tractor-trailer, missing him by inches, I knew I was going to have to do something to make …
Knoxville as a ‘trail town’
The city of Knoxville will soon “begin the process of developing a new parks and recreation master plan,” according to Parks & Rec director Sheryl Ely. “Community input will be …