During a few days when the headlines and thus this blog are understandably rather dominated by another, very important story, I'm still plugging away at my usual subjects, this time.
As I discussed when Hurricane Florence was about to strike, natural disasters are really natural forces exposing the inequalities and poor planning of human society. Thus, the example of coal.
The story of the Puget Sound orca carrying around her dead calf for over 2 weeks is incredibly sad and moved a lot of people. That pod of orcas, one.
While food issues as political activism get nowhere the attention among liberals that it did a decade ago (remember the Michael Pollan for Obama's Secretary of Agriculture boomlet in late.
The news isn't depressing enough. For the last three years, not one calf has been born to the dwindling pods of black-and-white killer whales spouting geysers of mist off the.
This is the grave of Tom McCall. Born in Scituate, Massachusetts in 1913 to a wealthy family who also had a big ranch in central Oregon, McCall fell in love.
The massive growth of the wine industry has led to a very real problem--wine monocultures that transform ecologically complex places such as the hills of Napa County into carefully manicured.
1947 wisdom is the best wisdom.
