Here's a NASA Earth Observatory image of some of the fires burning in Texas on April 15, with smoke plumes heading southeast.    On Thursday, the sky had been clear blue...with the change in wind direction overnight, the blue turned increasingly gray with smoke during the afternoon.  It was a very dry, strong wind, and the smoke and ash made ( Read more... )

Here's my advice: act out of joy, not guilt.  Act out of love, out of appreciation for the environment that sustains you, not out of fear, not out of guilt.

Why?  Because fear and guilt are short-term motivations and stressors...they exhaust, they limit the energy you have available for the long haul of environmental care.   Joy in the beauty, love ( Read more... )

When Silent Spring came out, I was  still in high  school.   A year after I graduated from high school, she died, of cancer.   I already knew her name before her most famous book came out, because I'd read her 1955 book, The Edge of the Sea.   One of my mother's friends was a renowned undersea photographer, Harry Pederson, who with his brother ( Read more... )