Posts from the ‘environment’ category

Kids and Combustion

When I was in high school, I remember friends who were jealous that my parents knew math and science – since obviously that meant I could…

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SENSibility 2: Don’t Forget the Garbage

We hear a lot about climate change these days. It is The Big Dark Thought of our time, just as nuclear Armageddon was The Big Dark…

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INDEX: Design to Improve Life

While in Copenhagen, Denmark a little more than two weeks ago, I stumbled upon the award exposition for the INDEX: Design to Improve Life biannual competition.…

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Besides Nuclear Energy, Other Quick Fixes That Didn’t Pan Out So Good

Genetically Modified Foods Liquor Breast Implants Rosie O’Donnell on The View Pesticides 1986’s Flow-bee Haircut before the Junior Prom with Wendy Barnes World War I

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Celebrity Ecological Footprints – how many Earths would we need if we all lived like Tom Cruise?

Q: Assuming that (a) Tom Cruise’s level of consumption is in parallel with his annual salary, and that (b) everyone on earth has the opportunity to…

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THE ORGANIC ADVENTURES OF FARMER TERRY

This modified telling of “Old MacDonald” is dedicated to all the growers and their supporters who choose to remain clean by staying green!

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THE LAST CANARY IN THE COAL MINE: SMALL, YELLOW, AND OMINOUSLY SILENT

Over the past fifty years, anomalies have occurred within Earth’s atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. Some of these have caught the attention of scientists and environmentalists only,…

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Kinds of Love

We just kind of lost touch, the world and I. There was, love of cabinetmakers. Love like flash light in a subway tunnel where the train…

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THE PEN AND THE CRANE

He said there are no straight lines in nature. Trees curve, tomato stalks give under the weight of their fruit, fingers never point perfectly. He holds…

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