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Learning Cycle: Reading Things
Need a road map? Pick up some reading on your intended topic in order to help you find your way. Finding his way with an actual map....

Kat Peters
May 31, 20214 min read


Learning Cycle: Asking questions
"Pilgrim, there is no road… the road is made by walking." Antonio Machado This week I’m getting back to my series on “Learning Cycle...

Kat Peters
May 17, 20214 min read


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....

Kat Peters
May 8, 202112 min read


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...

Kat Peters
May 3, 20214 min read


The Learning Cycle: Experience
The best learning happens when we consider our own lived experiences, ask critical questions about them, and make a change. This week:...

Kat Peters
Apr 26, 20216 min read


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...

Kat Peters
Apr 19, 20216 min read


I gave up Amazon for Lent and survived
While I have had moments in my life where I would have avoided Amazon in the first place, this moment is not one of them. But I'm...

Kat Peters
Apr 12, 20216 min read


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...

Kat Peters
Apr 7, 20212 min read


Of machetes and solidarity
Beyond my sleep-stealing babies, I have been thinking about fatigue and solidarity related to other events, both long-term and current. I...

Kat Peters
Apr 5, 20215 min read


¿Qué pasa con las cosas (y el ser) que dejamos atrás?
En mi caso, mis padres guardaron mi pasado en su sótano. Los refugiados no pueden darse ese lujo. English version here. Belky Hernández...

Kat Peters
Mar 3, 202111 min read
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