Photographer David Liittschwager traveled the world with a cubic foot frame that he staged in an array of ecosystems. Over the course of 24 hours he documented all the the biodiversity that passed through his cubic foot. The result is his new book A World in One Cubic Foot.
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| photo by David Liittschwager in a public park in Cape Town, South Africa |
Science writer Craig Childs was inspired by Liittschwagers journey to set up his own square foot in a cornfield in Iowa to see how this very common US ecosystem compared. NPR science correspondence Robert Krulwich interviewed Childs specifically about what he found, or didn't find, in his article Cornstalks Everywhere But Nothing Else, Not Even a Bee. I didn't expect a conventional corn field to be a boon of biodiversity, but I still found the results rather shocking. How can we be growing our food in a vacuum?
