Fandango’s Provocative Question #101 In the U.S., step one might be creating recycling plants that actually reuse the materials we recycle. As it stands now, most of the material we recycle utlimately gets trashed because we don’t have the plants to… Read More ›
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FANDANGO’S PROVOCATIVE QUESTION VIA BLOGGING INSIGHTS #26 – Marilyn Armstrong
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 ›
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 ›