“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...
Sometimes there are too many things to write about. This week's happenings are a case in point. [caption id="attachment_25447" align="alignleft" width="300"] Compost in a can[/caption] The COP18 Doha Climate Change Conference is happening in Qatar of all places, a corner of the globe that is completely dependent...
[caption id="attachment_25385" align="alignright" width="300"] Lawine Avalanche[/caption] Sandy, the horror-cane was a powerful force in our country in many ways. The human suffering continues even a month after the event. The infrastructure damage caused by Sandy has the states of New York and New Jersey asking the federal...
[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_25093" align="alignright" width="300"] Aqua Alta in Venice. Credit: Luigi Costantini/A[/caption] I usually leave climate change to my co-columnist, Billy Mason. His expertise in the subject way exceeds mine. But I make an exception for the specific subjects of flooding and sea level rise. Not only...
[caption id="attachment_25081" align="alignright" width="300"] Zephyros Farm, Paonia[/caption] Are agriculture and heritage tourism potential growth industries? On Tuesday, November 13, the historic Wright Opera House in Ouray was the perfect setting for folks from the Colorado Tourism Office (CTO) to gather with local farmers, ranchers, extension agents, and...
The long presidential campaign and the election are behind us. I won't try to predict what will happen, but I know what must happen: as a nation we must get to work on climate change. The deniers have not gone away; just yesterday a writer in...
[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...
Sus and I have done it again: Just over eleven years ago, we arrived at her parents' new apartment in Hackensack, NJ, to help them move in. On September 10. Now we have just returned from a two-week trip to Europe with the idea of spending...
[caption id="attachment_24780" align="alignleft" width="300"] Sandy, NASA Earth Observatory[/caption] Any environmental blog this week has to talk about the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy. I’m going to write about ecosystem restoration. The two issues are, in fact, closely related. What does restoration have to do with hurricanes? Quite...
