Here’s a comment I posted on an opinion piece written by Richard Stuebi, The Petroleum Industry: Past the Tipping Point? Interestingly, where it’s the minerals and non-renewable resources that should run out: oil, gold, aluminum, etc.; it’s been the renewable stuff that’s proven to be exhaustible: mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, cedars of Lebanon, gorillas. The paradoxContinue reading “Comment on a HuffPo column”
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Weekend Postcard from Boggs Mountain State Forest
I took these pictures a couple of weeks back when I and a couple of dear friends went for a short hike on the forest’s interpretive trail. The trail was lovingly created by the Friends of Boggs Mountain (and yes, I’m a member).
BP Oil spill live cam
BP’s gulf blowout is now the second (or third) largest man-made environmental disaster in U.S. history. http://www.ustream.tv/flash/mediastream/4424524Live streaming video by Ustream Larger US environmental disaster: – Dust bowl Larger US oil spill: – Kern County, California gusher
Past as prologue
A little historical perspective from Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c <td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'An Energy-Independent Future http://www.thedailyshow.com http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:312470 Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party
Let’s not gush about our clean energy options
Estimates regarding the rate of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil blowout get spewier with each succeeding news cycle. The mess being made requires that we Americans consider what we are willing to pay—economically and environmentally— for energy. I didn’t see President Obama’s live televised remarks to the nation on the BP oil spill but watched itContinue reading “Let’s not gush about our clean energy options”
BP oil spill: A teachable moment?
“I want to really challenge the idea that we can’t move into renewable energy sources a lot faster. We put a man on the moon pretty fast…What is really sad now is that Obama is not using this moment as a teachable moment to bring the country together.” – Arianna Huffington (on KCRW’s Left, Right,Continue reading “BP oil spill: A teachable moment?”
Matt Ridley – A Rational Optimist
Last April I posted about how the earth had improved since the first Earth Day. At the end of the post is a poll about whether, after reading the post, the reader was optimistic, pessimistic, or ambivalent about the future. Overwhelmingly, people were (and apparently, are) pessimistic about the future of the earth. Matt Ridley,Continue reading “Matt Ridley – A Rational Optimist”
BP – Beyond Perspective
Since man discovered fire, we have learned that any form of energy production holds risk. Fire cooked our food, lit the night so the wild animals stayed away, kept us warm, removed old vegetation at the end of the hunting season so that new growth would attract game in the coming spring. Fire also burnedContinue reading “BP – Beyond Perspective”
Weekend Postcard from Puerto Rico
This is from the Christmas season, 2002. We wanted someplace exotic that we wouldn’t need to have passports and visas for. So for Americans that’s Hawai’i and Peurto Rico (I assume Guam too, but that was too far). Since it was Christmas time, San Juan International Airport plays some of the cheesiest holiday music onContinue reading “Weekend Postcard from Puerto Rico”
Science Isn’t Enough: A Forester’s Search for Truth
A presentation on 10 February 2010, by William W. Keye (of the California Licensed Foresters Association) given at the UC/USFS Pre- and Post Wildfire Conference. You may get the PDF version (with the visuals) of his talk here: http://ucanr.org/sites/Prepostwildfire/files/3765.pdf _____ In looking over the agenda preparing for this talk I must tell you thatContinue reading “Science Isn’t Enough: A Forester’s Search for Truth”