GREENHOUSE GOLD
Popey would be proud of us. We have had a bumper crop of spinach this spring in our second season of growing food in our greenhouse.
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Denise Thornton
5 WEBSITES THAT CAN HELP YOU CLEAR OUT YOUR LIFE
A lot of things happen to you when a parent dies. You may find yourself dealing with their lifetime accumulation of possessions which can give you unexpected insights into your parent’s life. As we are cleaning out Doug’s dad’s house, I keep asking myself – What the heck was he […]
IS WEATHER DRIVING WIND POWER?
Last week at the UW-Madison Weston Lecture Series, I listened to Julie Lundquist, a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at University of Colorado-Boulder, explain how meteorologists are going to help usher in the age of wind. (More precisely, 20% Wind – there are some serious people […]
CLIMATE SICKNESS AND ITS CURE
Have you ever heard of Dengue fever? If not, you will soon. I was reminded of it as I listened to science writer Dan Ferber talk about a book he has written with Paul R. Epstein, Associate Director of the Center for Health and Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. […]
3 CLIMATE CHANGE BLOGS YOU SHOULD BE READING
Where can you get the low down on climate change these days? The media seem to drop the ball right and left. TV coverage or your favorite newspaper can seem willfully blind. What can we do? Glad you asked.
OUR CARBON LEGACY AND OUR KIDS
Paul Murtaughis a professor of statistics at Oregon State University, and he has brought his number skills to bear on environmental issues with papers like, “The Statistical Evaluation of Ecological Indicators,” and “Performance of Several Variable-Selection Methods Applied to Real Ecological Data.” When he and M.G. Schlax published “Reproduction and […]
CUTTING THE FOREST TO SAVE IT
I just had an article published in Odyssey Magazine this month. This is a very cool, science magazine for middle school kids that I have loved for a long time. Each issue has a theme, and April’s theme is trees. I wrote a piece about how whole tree building can […]
ART HANSMANN: 87 YEARS OF LIFE LIVED SMALL
Several of my posts lately have been short because of family health issues. One of those issues concluded last Saturday when my father-in-law succumbed to a long, wasting disease. This man was part of my life for 33 years. He was a hard man for me to like – politically […]
THEY ARE COMING! JOURNEY NORTH TRACKS MONARCHS ON THE MOVE
Do you love the first sight of snow drops or crocus or scilla? Are you watching the grass green up and watching willow branches turn yellow green? Have you got geese nesting on a pond near you? Senior citizens in Miami and Phoenix aren’t the only ones who venture north […]
THE FINAL FRONTIER BENEATH OUR FEET
Star Trek called space the final frontier, and that phrase is still resonating through our collective psyche. Americans have nostalgia for our lost frontier, but if we want to recapture that excitement of discovery, we are looking in the wrong direction. We need to look straight down at what we […]
Digging in the Driftless 