Gardening is the Answer . . .
What is the single most effective thing you can do to help your kids learn to respond to a global crisis? Teach them to grow a vegetable garden. Name that Crisis Problems with the economy are causing...
View ArticleHelp Juneau . . . Not That They Asked
Juneau Alaska has an interesting community planning / environmental disaster problem. They have a section of town that they know is vulnerable to avalanches. This section is built-up and has had some...
View ArticleDon’t Save the World With Bamboo
Time magazine helpfully laid out things people can do to cut done on carbon emmisions. As part of their recommendations to cut emmisions they suggested planting bamboo. Don’t do it! Bamboo will crowd...
View ArticleAP gets Silence of the Frogs Wrong?
The AP just broke a story that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the authoritative U.N. network of 2,000 scientists and more than 100 governments say that climate change is already...
View ArticlePoisonous Plant Picture Gallery
Spring is in the air (sort-of – it’s still very cold here) and I’m looking for new disasters to discuss. In my travels I found this lovely Rutgers site showing the poisonous/harmful plants in New...
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Stop Your Gardens – We’re Saved
Well, maybe don’t stop teaching your kids to garden but there is a lot of interest in saving the planet’s food production by moving it indoors. The world food supply is vulnerable to climate shifts,...
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The Downside of Teaching Your Children to Garden
When I first moved to town I had a fabulous ‘landscaper’ (that’s what you call the person who mows your lawn on the East Coast). He wasn’t like the other landscapers in town who would come in fair...
View ArticleReunion Smalltalk – How Will You Survive Global Warmng
Time flies at this time of year . . . finals, graduations, weddings, reunions. I had the pleasure of attending my college reunion. One of the real pleasures of attending a reunion of geeks and...
View ArticleEthanol in Gas
My environmental posts come from a lot of research into scientific papers. This doesn’t. (I’ll research it later, but if anyone has a clue, I’d love to know about it.) I’ve been driving in NYC lately....
View ArticleHome Farm Experiment
I’ve long thought that using modern-day victory gardensto counter food shortages from abrupt climate change events or other crises, would run full-tilt into a wall of ignorance that just didn’t exist...
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Gardening is the Answer . . .
What is the single most effective thing you can do to help your kids learn to respond to a global crisis? Teach them to grow a vegetable garden. Name that Crisis Problems with the economy are causing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Help Juneau . . . Not That They Asked
Juneau Alaska has an interesting community planning / environmental disaster problem. They have a section of town that they know is vulnerable to avalanches. This section is built-up and has had some...
View ArticleDon’t Save the World With Bamboo
Time magazine helpfully laid out things people can do to cut done on carbon emmisions. As part of their recommendations to cut emmisions they suggested planting bamboo. Don’t do it! Bamboo will crowd...
View ArticleAP gets Silence of the Frogs Wrong?
The AP just broke a story that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the authoritative U.N. network of 2,000 scientists and more than 100 governments say that climate change is already...
View ArticlePoisonous Plant Picture Gallery
Spring is in the air (sort-of – it’s still very cold here) and I’m looking for new disasters to discuss. In my travels I found this lovely Rutgers site  showing the poisonous/harmful plants in New...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stop Your Gardens – We’re Saved
Well, maybe don’t stop teaching your kids to garden but there is a lot of interest in saving the planet’s food production by moving it indoors. The world food supply is vulnerable to climate shifts,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Downside of Teaching Your Children to Garden
When I first moved to town I had a fabulous ‘landscaper†(thatâ€s what you call the person who mows your lawn on the East Coast). He wasnâ€t like the other landscapers in town who would come in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reunion Smalltalk – How Will You Survive Global Warmng
Time flies at this time of year . . . finals, graduations, weddings, reunions. I had the pleasure of attending my college reunion. One of the real pleasures of attending a reunion of geeks and...
View ArticleEthanol in Gas
My environmental posts come from a lot of research into scientific papers. This doesn’t. (I’ll research it later, but if anyone has a clue, I’d love to know about it.)  I’ve been driving in NYC...
View ArticleHome Farm Experiment
I’ve long thought that using modern-day victory gardensto counter food shortages from abrupt climate change events or other crises, would run full-tilt into a wall of ignorance that just didn’t exist...
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