Eco-links and Down Mountain
I’m still playing catch-up from our trip and have some clips from the SEJ daily mailing list I wanted to keep, so thought I’d share. Most as you can see are related to the biggest ecological disaster on US soil…
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Polar Bears Climb Cliffs to Eat Bird Eggs
So what if birds fly south later or polar bears have to leave the disappearing sea ice earlier. Big deal. What do we care, say those who are happy if their own personal plans are not threatened this week by…
Out of Sight: Dispersed Oil’s High Price
Spring cleaning comes and I have to leave the room. Many of the grocery store cleaning agents one might expect to see used for such a project give me the weird-head. I have a low threshold for such solvents, first…
Water Wealth: our Blue Gold
Will there be enough to go around in tomorrow’s world? How to have adequate water for all who need it on the global scale has become as urgent and compelling an environmental issue as how to avoid too much atmospheric…
The Crunch: SustainFloyd October Events Need YOU!
I’ll just bring this matter right in your face, several blog regulars who came here expecting to see a picture of mushrooms, stories about chickens or dogs, or some tree-hugging pleasantries. That life goes on, but meanwhile… I was pleased…
End of a Year, End of an Epoch
Image via Wikipedia …and the beginning of “energy descent.” Descent” is not necessarily a word that anticipates or necessitates a crash, though it might. A soft landing is possible in our case, but it is far from being a given.…
I Hold These Truths: Taking a Stand
Image by T-Man Fresno via Flickr In recent months, voices no less reasoned and prominent than Al Gore and Wendell Berry have suggested that there are causes worth putting yourself to some inconvenience and risk to protect. This is an…
Lookin’ For Light in All the Wrong Places
It was too costly (read unhappy stock holders AND consumers) to put in place the more stringent technology to burn the more readily available higher-sulphur coal in power plants along the Massachusetts coast. So they went south–to Columbia, South America–where…
Shrink-wrapped Cypress Swamp: NIMBY
Image via WikipediaIn reading the May-June Audubon Magazine (thanks Marjory!) I was appalled to learn that the big box stores have been selling bagged mulch made from America’s largest swamp–specifically from Cypress trees (mature and immature indiscriminately) from the Atchafalaya…
We All Live Downstream: Act NOW!
I am not in the best situation for blogging this morning but must make you aware of this final Bush-era gift to Big Coal, one of his last insults to the people of Appalachia and Planet Earth. Read this short explanation below…
Polyface Part II
None its “many faces” are very showy. As a matter of fact, from the ground or the air, nothing seems all that different about this plateaued 550 acres of Central Virginia valley farmland near the community of Middlebrook. To the…
Debriefing SEJ 2008: a Beginning
You probably know the feeling–the mixed emotions after a week away, relieved to be free of steady-state, always-on attention to names, words and issues, now home, in the quiet let down to be out of the wash of adrenalin, zeal…
True Costs of Coal
Image via WikipediaI haven’t found a ruling on the Tuesday decision that will effect all of us, those in the coal states most importantly, with better air and water, some surviving forests, and fewer of one kind of mining job–taking…
Society of Environmental Journalists: Roanoke in October
Image via Wikipedia I get a lot of announcements and offers passing through my email each week as I’m sure you do, and most of it, I don’t give a second thought before hitting the delete key. But when I…