Exploring Solutions for Nature’s Challenges
A Lifelong Love of the Outdoors Led to a Solutions-Based Nature Blog
Once upon a time, I was a little girl who, like so many other children, loved playing outside. When my parents took me for walks in the neighborhood, we moved slowly, as I stopped to examine every leaf on the sidewalk and watched, fascinated, as ants busily scurried about.
As I grew up, I often asked my mom to drop me off at the nature center, where I would quietly wander the paths, watching animals, and hoping to spot deer, frogs, and birds. My family loved camping, and we spent many weekends hiking, biking, and canoeing together.
Like many other children, I eventually grew up, got a job, and raised kids of my own. Even though life became busy, nature has always been my source of peace and renewal. The air, the animals, the plants—everything about it grounds me. Hiking is still a slow-moving affair for me, as I stop often to photograph plants, flowers, and butterflies.
I created WednesdayIsland.com, a blog where you’ll find optimism for our future through solutions-based stories. I hope this space compels you to explore your world, conserve all the wonders therein and feel inspired about what is possible in the context of our changing world.
It turns out that nature has been a lifelong passion. That passion inspired me to launch my nature blog website, WednesdayIsland.com. But this isn’t just any nature blog—it’s solutions-based.
I remember listening to an episode of the National Geographic podcast Overheard, where Enric Sala, founder of Nat Geo’s Pristine Seas project, shared his experience. Sala, once a professor of marine ecology, spent years studying the impact of humans on the ocean. He described how each new research paper confirmed, with more data and precision, that we are indeed killing marine life everywhere. It felt, he said, like writing the ocean’s obituary.
Realizing this, Sala left academia to focus on finding solutions—on curing the ocean rather than simply diagnosing its demise.
His words stuck with me. That’s why I created WednesdayIsland.com, a blog where you’ll find optimism for our future through solutions-based stories.
I hope this space compels you to explore your world, conserve all the wonders therein and feel inspired about what is possible in the context of our changing world.