[caption id="attachment_28335" align="alignright" width="283"] Fracking Process[/caption] On June 22 of 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Northeast Ohio caught fire due to the indiscriminate dumping of industrial chemicals and sewage into the river. Sadly, this event was not unique during the early- and mid-20th century industrialization of...
[caption id="attachment_27876" align="alignleft" width="300"] Human Evolution[/caption] The rise of the Tea Party Republicans has propagated a twisted version of the 13th century philosophy that science should be ignored if it does not support their narrow ideology. The majority of the Republican Party refutes the 99.8% of...
Fox News, my personal favorite for misinformation, recently claimed without a wisp of evidence that “all climate scientists that claim climate change is real are corrupt.” If that were true, it would mean that 13,926 out of 13,950 peer-reviewed articles written by climate scientists between 1991...
[caption id="attachment_26934" align="alignright" width="280"] Rooftop solar[/caption] The city of Boulder, Colorado, has long been a vibrant community that understands the symbiotic relationship between quality of life and health of the natural environment. Since at least the 1960s, “Boulderites” have perceived themselves as environmental conservation trendsetters. When most...
Since the first primal grunt, humans have heavily relied on communication to survive. We use the art of language to sculpt our society, to stimulate our economy, and to describe the glorious beauty of nature. Without an effective method of communication, chaos would reign and...
[caption id="attachment_25905" align="alignright" width="240"] Moon-Ocean image[/caption] Sailors, fisherman, surfers, and Inuits are but a few of the communities that have an intimate relationship with the tidal effect in coastal environments. For surfers, the difference between high tide, when the water’s shoreline edge appears to move onshore, and...
“You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.” When attempting to elevate climate change awareness in the United States, this time-weathered sage advice metaphorically represents the agonizing sentiments of climate scientists worldwide. After the International Panel on Climate Change released its initial...
[caption id="attachment_25283" align="alignright" width="275"] Flags flying outside the United Nations[/caption] Sometimes, as a happily willing participant in humanity’s evolving global experiment on Earth, I “imagine” or more accurately I conduct a comparative analysis of protocol indicators over time to theorize the present and future needs of...
[caption id="attachment_24938" align="alignright" width="300"] Riff on Rodin's Thinking Man[/caption] Geography is everything. It is the granddaddy of all academia. Geography entails the exploration of the interactions and interrelationships between space, place, and environment. In terms of academic Geography, space represents a location, place symbolizes the cultural significance...
The iconic Bob Dylan song, “'The Times They Are A-Changin,’” touches upon the universal truth that change is constant. As humanity moves forward into the 21st century, we need to evolve (adapt) our way of life in order to reduce the risk of vulnerability, build...
