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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…
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Gryes of the World, and Great Pacific Garbage Patch
I have been obsessing about the “garbage patches” in the gyres of the world since reading some information about them I hadn’t previously heard. In the book “The World Without Us”, by Alan Weisman, he tells the story about Captain Charles Moore, who in 1997 inadvertently steered himself into the largest collection of garbage in…
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Environmental Ethos
It’s been a beautiful spring, and I have been cooped up indoors recuperating. One would think this would give me time to write some stories, but I had found so many other projects to occupy my time that I haven’t had it to spare writing on here. Mostly, spare moments have been spent brushing up…
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Columbia River Melt-Down
This is the Columbia River. It is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest, and the fourth largest river in the United States. It winds south from British Columbia into Washington, then runs westward to the Pacific Ocean, forming the border between Washington and Oregon. And in 15-20 years, it could be carrying up to…