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...
Category: Environmental
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,...
Here Comes the Sun…
I spent much of my high school years on a surfboard. It became a full-throated obsession during my senior year when the school test-drove a new program called “Self-Imposed Scheduling.” If you were in...
Climate Change?
Europe — indeed much of the northern hemisphere, thanks to five separate high-pressure domes — is sweltering under an unprecedented heat wave: airport schedules disrupted because runways are buckling… older folks dying from heatstroke…...
