This really ticks me off…
Sure, ticks like springtime when they can hide in moist grasslands and woods, but it seems like every season is tick season here in southwest Oregon. Having lived and worked in the woods for...
Category: Environmental
Lightning and Thunder and Bears, oh my…
This one’s gonna be short. Susie is with Bailey in Italy, and I escaped to the deck to try and find the universe. The good news is that it found me. I’ve been sitting...
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...
Climate change and sea level rise
How long can you tread water? It’s become almost a daily bluster: articles bemoaning the reality of climate change and how it is going to destroy the earth and lead to the end of...
Groundwater recharge and your checkbook
“Atmospheric Rivers” (a.k.a. the Pineapple Express) are all the rage these days, and those of us west of the Rockies are hoping that the current weather patterns will help put an end to the...
Fusion and Clean Energy
The big science news of the week (possibly the decade, if not the century) comes out of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, where nuclear physicists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) finally...
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...
Cognitive Dissonance and the Earth
I read a short but interesting article from CleanTechnica titled “Cognitive Dissonance For Environmental and Earth Scientists”. In broad terms, this one dealt with human interactions with the planet… for good, but mostly for...
Kill Your Car?
The tagline on the noon news was enough all by itself: “California to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035.” This is another one of those ideas that sounds so good, and yet...
Turn Around, Don’t Drown
Oh my! The images and videos of the August 2022 flooding in Death Valley, California, are certainly impressive. Only 1.46 inches of rainfall were recorded at the Furnace Creek Visitor’s Center, but that was...
