Blogging Insights — What’s Next? Here are the original questions: BLOGGING INSIGHTS -QUESTIONS: What suggestions / tipsdo you have for improving/upgrading this series?Do you have any questions that you would like me to feature? If you are new to the Blogging… Read More ›
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ANOTHER OPEN LETTER TO MANKIND FROM PLANET EARTH – BY TOM CURLEY
Hi Mankind. This is Earth again. Some of you call me Earth, some call me Terra, some call me Gaia. Call me what you want. Just don’t call me late for dinner. (I still don’t really get that joke, but… Read More ›
2020, A MAKE-BREAK YEAR OF A MAKE-BREAK DECADE – REBLOG – WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE
8 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in the New Make-or-Break Decade by Sarah Parsons – January 15, 2020 The world was not kind to the environment over the past decade, the warmest in recorded history. Superstorm Sandy caused more than $70 billion of damages in… Read More ›
OUR WORLD BALANCED ON THE HEAD OF A PIN – Marilyn Armstrong
Garry was a working reporter for more than 40 years, so you have to figure I have an interest in the news. I never watched all the news. I didn’t think every shooting or fatal car accident was news. Just… Read More ›
THE BURNING SEASON – Marilyn Armstrong
Martha Kennedy wrote a piece today that I wanted to comment on. But after a while, I realized it wasn’t a comment. It was a blog. A long blog at that. Although I have not recently fallen on my head,… Read More ›
OPTIMISM SEEMS A BIT MISPLACED AT THE MOMENT – Marilyn Armstrong
I started reading an article about what’s going on in Tasmania and Australia. The apocalyptic heat. The fires. The dying animals. The dying giant kelp. Dead koalas falling from the trees. I got about halfway through the article and couldn’t… Read More ›
COUNT THE BIRDS – Marilyn Armstrong
The windows through which I shoot bird pictures had gotten dusty. Owen went out to clean them for me. All the birds around the deck and on the feeders flew up and into the trees. Owen said it sounded like… Read More ›
THE “OLD PERSON” WEATHER REPORT – Marilyn Armstrong
These days, watching television and seeing even the finest meteorologist give a forecast that is everything other than summer would be a lot funnier if it didn’t mean that climate change is hitting this area — New England — harder… Read More ›
BUILT ON THE ROCK ~ OCTOBER 28, 2019 ~ MELANIE B CEE
Garry is forever telling me that I do make a difference even though I usually can’t see how. But this is actual evidence that I have made a difference to at least one person and hopefully, a few others. The… Read More ›
THE ZOO ON THE DECK – Marilyn Armstrong
They announced on the news that another 2 or 3-degree rise in temperature will cost us about 3 million birds over the next year, especially sea birds like seagulls as well as eagles and hawks. I don’t want to think… Read More ›
BUT WHAT KIND OF BIRD IS THAT? – Marilyn Armstrong
We were up early yesterday (doctor) and early again today (dentist). This gave me the opportunity to get some pictures of the morning birds. I had been noticing unfamiliar birds this year. Birds I saw a lot of last year… Read More ›
“NO” IS SOMETIMES THE PERFECT ANSWER! – Marilyn Armstrong
Remember how, many years ago in a galaxy far, far away — you know, during the Reagan administration — our government decided the best anti-drug program was “JUST SAY NO!” Make every person 100% responsible for whatever happens to him or… Read More ›
LONG, RAMBLING POLITICAL & ECOLOGICAL POST – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango —Anyone (Technically) Can Win These last 2-1/2 years with El Trumpo Magnifico as our Fearless Leader has made politics a lot less fun than they used to be. I’ve always been a bit of a political junkie…. Read More ›
INSTIGATE A PERSONAL SEARCH FOR WEATHER-RELATED HOME DAMAGE – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Instigate I don’t have much time today — heart doctor followup in a few hours. This has been an exceptionally busy week with doctor appointments for either Garry or me for every day, not counting Labor… Read More ›
SHARING MY VERY DAMP WORLD – Marilyn Armstrong
Share Your World 9-3-19 From Melanie: “Wow. September. Where did the summer go? I’m not at all sure…anyway. This week finds us with some more questions, but this week they’re all ‘deep’ ones requiring a little thought. Enjoy!” I know… Read More ›
A.B. NORMAL – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Abnormal What is normal? It there such a thing? Does anyone lead a “normal life”? This has been a week when it feels like I should not have gotten out of bed. Or, for that matter, gained… Read More ›
FEAR AND LOATHING BY THE RIVER – Marilyn Armstrong
Since we came to the Valley, trips to the river to take pictures has been part of our life, often the high point of our lives. Now, with the hidden lurking diseases brought by southern mosquitoes that are part of… Read More ›
SHARE MY WORLD ASSUMING WORD PRESS DOESN’T CRUMBLE – Marilyn Armstrong
Share Your World – 8-20-19 QUESTIONS: What would be your solution to the overpopulation of the earth? Earth has finite resources and humanity seems to be breeding themselves to extinction. Some countries have tried restricting the number of children… Read More ›
IS THIS THE END OF DAYS? – Marilyn Armstrong
I know, because I keep reading about it, how “end of days” is supposed to work. This is when the good guys (not me or mine) will go wafting upward to heaven whilst the unshriven and/or non-religious, disbelievers, and the… Read More ›
ONE PEOPLE, ONE PLANET, ONE PLAN TO RULE THEM ALL – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Repercussions Much is made of the U.S.’s contributions to greenhouse gas emissions, as well as particulate air emission, and plastic in the oceans. Rightfully so. We make major contributions, especially considering our size relative to other areas… Read More ›
THE BIGGEST LIE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE – SCIENCE IS REAL
Originally posted on ScienceSwitch:
We were all lied to about climate change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbW_1MtC2So Via – AsapSCIENCE
MAKING DO AND SOMETIMES, A SURPRISE – Marilyn Armstrong
Our mailbox got beat up. Was it whacked by a teenager and a baseball bat or hit by a plow? Since we didn’t see it happen, it’s a guess. What we know it that it got mashed. Not just ours,… Read More ›
WEATHER AND WINTER – Marilyn Armstrong
Our weather is weird. In the past decade, we’ve had winters where we are buried in 12 feet (about three meters) of snow next to winters where we don’t get any snow — or so little, we never need to… Read More ›
THERE ISN’T MUCH SNOWFALL #writephoto – Marilyn Armstrong
Thursday photo prompt: Snowfall #writephoto It had been warm for most of December and the bulk of January. Warm enough to find myself picking ticks off my dogs. In January when I normally don’t have to worry about ticks and fleas… Read More ›
