Finally a beautiful, warm day! There are a few white cumuli here and there in the utterly clean, cerulean sky, but Mt. Rainier stands out so clearly I can damned near pick out individual rocks on its peak, which is completely covered with a skirt of pure white snow delinated in outlines of light blue and blue-grey, and the snow on the peaks of the ( Read more... )

. . . Earth did not spring into being in its present state; instead, it took billions of years to develop into what it is today. Similarly, it will not sustain today’s environment forever; Our planet will break down as the human body does, in a complex series of processes that can be forecast as surely as our own deaths. [We believe habitable ( Read more... )