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Two Historic Smogs
We are capable of learning from our horrendous mistakes.
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Polluters Should Pay for Plastic Pandemic
This has got to stop.
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An Environmental Reset
An opportunity to think about what we’ve done.
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What Does God Think of Climate Change?
Shame on us.
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What Price Patriotism?
There are other ways we could celebrate that don’t come with such a high price tag.
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Nature Doesn’t Clash
I have a friend who is an artist, and when choosing his color palette for any given creation, he looks to nature for inspiration. He’ll take a leaf or a flower petal, for example, and put it under a microscope, and then use the colors he sees there. I think that’s a brilliant idea. If…
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Water Clarity
The other day I wrote Epiphanies of the Obvious, and today I had one. I was looking at an artist’s rendering of some sort of ocean-based dinosaur, and I noticed that the water was crystal clear. And then I thought, “Yes, I bet the water was crystal clear for the dinosaurs. We weren’t around to…
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The Septic Tank Guy
Once every two weeks, a guy comes to the bridge to pump out our septic tank. I hope he’s paid well. That’s one disgusting job. No matter how evolved we would like to think we are, there’s no getting around the fact that we are biological beings, and somewhere, every minute of the day, some…
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Inclusion
Yet another reason to love Seattle. I just read in this article that they’ve unveiled several rainbow crosswalks in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, and they will last long after this year’s Pride festivities are over and done with. And then the Supreme Court ruled that same sex marriage is legal nationwide. That’s the best thing…