When I think of Afghanistan, I think of war, tribal strife and Bin Ladin. Not once, until I saw this announcement come through last week, have I thought of beauty, biodiversity or environmental stewardship. And yet, there it is.
Afghanistan even has a National Environment Protection Agency, and this week it announced the establishment of the country’s [...]
The good news — as it’s being couched out of the University of Colorado in Boulder — is that global warming is not likely to engender a great belch of methane from the permafrost that will kickstart a deadly methane cycle leading to further warming.
But I don’t suppose it’s any more comfortable to realize warming [...]
Often when moving to a new town, I’ll check out a lot of apartments before I find the right one. Other times I see a decent place and I just stop looking, even if there were more on my list.
That’s how ants do it, too.
Elva Robinson, a biologist at the University of Bristol in England, [...]
I once knew a man who had done very well in the garbage business. I don’t know the details, but I do know he operated our city’s trash-pickup services (and grabbed the contracts in outlying, multiple-county areas as well).
I lost count of the number of fancy cars he drove.
Once I asked him: Why don’t we [...]
A friendly reminder: Earth Day is on Wednesday, so be the best steward you can be! I’m working on a post or two with Earth Day specifically in mind, but I won’t claim this is one of them. A lot of my posts have to do with a year-round fascination with Earth and the living [...]
