Wow, 100 blog posts in 100 days … this has been big fun! I started this intense blogging effort in late January, when the economic slow-down made an acute showing in media outlets. I wasn’t getting paid assignments for a while, and I found myself without a regular outlet for what I love to do [...]
Carbon dioxide, of course, isn’t the only gas we emit into the atmosphere. Methane, a highly effective greenhouse gas, belches from landfills. And about five percent of our gas emissions comprise mercury.Β We get it back: About 90 percent of human methylmercury exposure comes from ocean fish and shellfish — about 40 percent of that [...]
We know we have the technology to inject carbon dioxide into the ground. Oil and gas companies have been doing it for years, as a way to push the goods to the surface.Β But can we make it stay there, as a way to keep it out of the atmosphere?That’s the multi-million-dollar question. Carbon sequestration [...]
If you’re a person who loves the American West, you’ve probably had the impulse to just go get lost in it. I mean, for a long time. As in: forget the job, and any notions of a home or marriage … just walk, across deserts and through dusty Indian towns, down into canyons, to the [...]