Mother Nature Meets Apple’s CEO
Figure 1. A screenshot from the Apple Mother Nature video, with chief sustainability officer Lisa Jackson and CEO Tim Cook in the center. In 2023, Apple made a
We Have Never Been Husbands to Parrots (Domination without Domestication in the Grey Anthropocene Part 2)
Nancy J. Jacobs was president of the ASEH from spring 2023 through spring 2025. Germinate is publishing her Presidential Address, delivered at the 2025 ASEH conference in Pittsburgh, in three parts. This is part two. Co-evolution has complemented love and training in allowing strangers of different species to become friends. In her 2003 book The Companion […]
The Great Acceleration (Domination without Domestication in the Grey Anthropocene, Part 1)
The name “African grey parrots” refers to two very similar species: timneh parrots (Psittacus timneh) and grey parrots proper, also called Congo greys (P. erithacus). The difference between these two species is not great; it’s that timnehs have a dark maroon tail and greys proper have a scarlet one (figure 1). They share a […]
