Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change for Dummies
This post may be a bit longer than usual, so get comfy. Click here for an index of earlier posts that touch on some of this. When I was at Physical Therapy a couple...
Category: Earth Materials
Deep Sea Mining
I read an interesting article in Mother Jones (7/16/23) about mining on the deep-sea floor (aka the abyssal plain) for metallic nodules. This follows up on another article on the same site that discusses...
E-waste and rational resource management
How many of you still have your original cellphone? Not your flip-phone, I’m talking about the brick you had before that. But hey, what did happen to your first flip-phone? Or your first beeper...
A couple good reads…
I’d like to recommend a couple books that I’ve read and highly recommend for anyone who is looking to expand their knowledge of the earth, and appreciates pictures to help them along the way...
A Brief Introduction to Earthquakes
A Request… Please hit the Subscribe button and sign up for updates to this blog. It costs you nothing and gives me nothing, other than a bit of emotional validation for my efforts. What...
Talcum Power and Asbestos
I read with interest the decision by Johnson & Johnson to discontinue the sale of talc-based baby powder by 2023. While J&J has not sold talcum powder in the United States and Canada since...
Lithium and Green Energy
I saw an article this morning about a lithium prospect in the Alvord desert of southeastern Oregon. The company that was exploring for the metal — used in batteries for electric vehicles, consumer electronics,...
As simple as black and white
I am absolutely convinced that we are all born geologists. I mean, really, what kid doesn’t have a rock collection? Sadly, most of us lose the love by middle school when the burdens and...
