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      How to: Achieve the impossible
      Kat Peters
      • Mar 7
      • 7 min

      How to: Achieve the impossible

      Also known as: winter sowing One impossible thing I did was work with a five-year-old on a project that I cared about! I have been...
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      On history: with Gary historian Korry Shepard
      Kat Peters
      • Feb 22
      • 1 min

      On history: with Gary historian Korry Shepard

      I had the great good fortune to converse with this historian from Gary, Indiana, in February. 2022. Korry Shepard dropping knowledge at...
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      Whatever happened to the actual backwaters?
      Kat Peters
      • Nov 29, 2021
      • 6 min

      Whatever happened to the actual backwaters?

      The water was drained, but I don't believe that all was lost. Around 80 of the 35,000 sandhill cranes stopping over in what used to be...
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      5 ways to connect with your bioregion
      Kat Peters
      • Nov 15, 2021
      • 6 min

      5 ways to connect with your bioregion

      Place-based living is something we modern middle class US people can learn to do better. Seen on a recent bike ride near the Little...
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      Linking passion, community, and resilience for well-being
      Kat Peters
      • Oct 4, 2021
      • 5 min

      Linking passion, community, and resilience for well-being

      Also published on the Indiana University Healthy IU website, which you can find here. A demonstration plot at Christ Lutheran Church in...
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      New Backwater is turning 1!
      Kat Peters
      • Aug 3, 2021
      • 2 min

      New Backwater is turning 1!

      My first post on New Backwater was on August 8, 2020. On this last week of the first year, I look back, and look ahead. Soooo many...
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      Notice, Connect, Find Joy: Costa Rica-US Migratory Birds (transcript)
      Kat Peters
      • May 9, 2021
      • 12 min

      Notice, Connect, Find Joy: Costa Rica-US Migratory Birds (transcript)

      Find the video transcript, full credits, and extra resources for helping you identify and protect migratory birds in your community....
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      I return to the place where I was born
      Kat Peters
      • May 3, 2021
      • 4 min

      I return to the place where I was born

      I wonder which place migratory birds consider home. I wonder if they don’t even think of the two places as separate. Dipping my feet in...
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      Urban gardens in Curridabat: A maternity leave mini-IP
      Kat Peters
      • Apr 19, 2021
      • 6 min

      Urban gardens in Curridabat: A maternity leave mini-IP

      When I am not sure how to handle change, I go to my toolkit. Here, a study I did in my neighborhood in Costa Rica to pass the time...
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      New perk for subscribers to New Backwater: Environmental reflections from Living Connected
      Kat Peters
      • Apr 7, 2021
      • 2 min

      New perk for subscribers to New Backwater: Environmental reflections from Living Connected

      Announcing an exciting new partnership with Katrina Martich, my friend and environmental engineer / Anunciando una nueva asociación...
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      I'm an intercultural educator, Spanish professor, and former Assistant Director of study abroad in Costa Rica.

       

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      Combining the old and new of the Americas in order to connect with nature, with others, and with ourselves, for a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world.

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