Sauron, Mordor & the White Wizard
My bad for not posting regularly, a temporary excuse was my relocation from Oregon to New Hampshire in the spring, but I should have jumped back in the late spring. Well that's going to change going forward and here's the first one after the recent P…
COP27, Climate Change & the Ocean
Lots of news landing in my inbox today so with COP 27 starting on Sunday in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt thought this would be a good time for a blog post.The first bit of news came from The Economist and addressed how keeping temperature increases to <…
World Rivers Day 2022
Tomorrow, Sun, 9/25, is World Rivers Day which is a day of celebration and recognition for the world's rivers (the image used is my fav swimming hole on a river here in Oregon). Water is 70%+ of the earth's surface and of that, ~96.5% is the oc…
Memorial Day Weekend (aka start of Summer), World Reef / Ocean Day & miscellaneous thoughts...
Welcome to Memorial Day 2022 and the unofficial start of summer. Hope folks are planning on a beach weekend, whether the ocean, lake, pond, river or stream, but if not that doesn't mean you can't take a day trip to the beach sometime this weekend.&nb…
Earth Day 2022 + other stuff
So here we are at Earth Day 2022 where the theme is invest in the planet. I have to be honest, I think the tag line is overly optimistic as we, humans, as a species, don't seem to grok the damage we are doing to the earth. Silly humans.&n…