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No Boundaries

May 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · health & well being, sustainability

The many good Earth Day activities last weekend got me to thinking: we act as if the earth is separate from us, with a big boundary between us and nature. I suggest that’s not accurate thinking, and not very joyful, either. I admit I have done this, too. It’s easy to think that we are [...]

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Making The Ocean Drinkable, Part II

December 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments · energy, home & garden, lifestyle, nature, sustainability

Drought-tolerant gardens and xeroscapes are beautiful inside and out. That is the conclusion I’ve come to after studying desalination, which is the increasingly popular but very costly and energy-intensive process by which ocean water is made into fresh water. (See here for Part I on desalination.) Given that energy production drives global warming, we need [...]

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Making The Ocean Drinkable, Part I

December 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · energy, nature

This is Part 1 of a two-part story on desalination, the energy-intensive treatment of ocean water to render it drinkable. This post gives general information on desalination, and Part II will evaluate its merits, particularly in regard to quality of life and global warming. If you live in the U.S. and you have deliberately drunk [...]

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Take The Green Out Of Golf, Please

June 11th, 2008 · No Comments · lifestyle

A short post having just returned from the Southwest. I’ve learned it takes between 2200 to 3500 gallons of water to support each single game of golf played in a desert environment. This, in an American West of shrinking aquifers and a world of growing food shortages and record levels of starvation. I’m seeing a [...]

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Obama, Racism and the Primary World

February 5th, 2008 · No Comments · food & drink, nature, politics, sustainability

Bob Herbert’s column in the New York Times this morning questions whether racism in the U.S. has abated enough to elect our first black president. While I hope it has, I have a related but deeper concern.

This human race we all belong to, with all our different skin pigments, beliefs and so forth, is not the only game in town, i.e., on the planet. Think about it. All of this

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