Wow, 100 Quick Green Reads…who would have thought? I just looked back and saw that not a single Friday was missed, so that means just about 2 full years of this feature. I hope you guys like this weekly dose of interesting articles I find, as I don’t normally link to news stories [...]
As many of you know, my wife and I traveled by Amtrak again this year across the country for the holidays. Last year we took it from Los Angeles to Chicago, and this year we went from Albuquerque all the way to Boston.
We had a good time, even though we were delayed [...]
After I mentioned somewhere that we were making our own bread at home instead of buying it at the store, a reader emailed me and asked for the recipe we were using. So I figured that if one person was interested, maybe a few more might be as well! We make this bread [...]
This week’s Do One Thing comes courtesy of something my wife did a few months ago – she wrote a letter. An honest to goodness, pen on paper letter to a local restaurant here in town. When we first moved here last summer, we received a gift certificate to a fancy local restaurant which [...]
As I write this, I am just back from yet another couple of hours in the garage scraping old caulk, rubber, paint, mold and assorted other crap off of a very old broken window that I found on the side of the road. I have had to use a hammer and a chisel, a paint [...]
Sometimes I stop and think: Are we really capable of fixing the mess we’ve created on our planet?
Somehow, some of us have this built-in will to make things right, the desire that every single being around us is well and lives in peace, be it human, animal, or plant. At the same time, [...]
With all the talk of rising seas, what could happen to the rivers that flow into the oceans? Will they reverse flow? Will rising seas back up into fresh water lakes? And what happens to our groundwater should saltwater flow backwards into it?
The intrusion of saltwater from the sea into rivers and groundwater is a [...]
