State of Wilderness

Author: keely

  • Environmental Issues: Burials and Cremations

    In the beginning of the book “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, the main character, a nine year old boy, muses on the increasing world population in terms of where there will be room to bury all the dead.  He throws out the idea that there are more people alive right now than have died in…

  • Environmental Issues: PCBs and Industrial Effects

    On my way home from work today, I was thinking about what I consider to be the key environmental issues of our times.  Part of this thought process was stemming from a conversation J and I were having the other day about why he seems to have changed his mind about wanting to produce his…

  • Enter the Mushroom: Sustainable Packaging

    Tonight, I watched an enlightening TED talk that is related to previous posts. I wrote about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch two posts ago, and this sparked the conversation my friend and I and our children were having around the campfire in my last post about Huntsville State Park. I had gotten them all fired…

  • Huntsville State Park #2

    Finally, a camping weekend. It’s been a long six months since we went camping. Last time we went, we were actually at this same park. It’s not the closest state park to us, but it might be the most popular, especially with the scouts. Last time we were here, it was with scouts, and this…