LESSONS FROM POND SCUM

Ted Merrill,a lifelong physician and ecologist, offers the Eco-jar as a working model of Planet Earth. An Eco-jar is a sealed, air-tight container, mostly full of water but also containing mud, sand, rocks, plants, and tiny creatures. You can easily make one by following Ted s simple instructions, and once you begin to think of our Earth as a huge Eco-jar, you ll understand how the lessons Ted shares apply to every aspect of human endeavor._,