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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
In 2006 people started finding dead bats whose noses were covered in a white fungus in caves around Albany NY. We now know this is the deadly White Nose Syndrome WNS, which has decimated the bat populations of Europe. It’s spreading fast, jumping west more than 500 miles just last […]
Those of us who live in Wisconsin have been observing and/or participating in a major civics exercise the past few weeks. It’s been an astonishing demonstration of what people are willing to do when they perceive their government is overreaching its authority. My throat is raw, my arches ache and […]
Doug and I each attended different lectures on mycorrhizae by Jeff Lowenfels at the MOSES Midwest Organic Farming Conference a few weeks ago, and we both felt Lowenfels’ talks on mycrorrhizal fungi were some of the best info we got at the conference. It’s sent me on a quest to […]
THOSE WHO EXPECT TO REAP THE BLESSINGS OF FREEDOM MUST UNDERGO THE FATIGUE OF SUPPORTING IT. Thomas Paine THE ONLY THING NECESSARY FOR THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL IS FOR GOOD MEN TO DO NOTHING. Edmund Burke I am going to go off my usual environmental topic for this post. Things […]
According to a report, “Tackling High Tech Trash,” by Demos, a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization, Americans now own 3 billion electronic products with a turnover rate of about 400 million units annually. We now have one computer for every six people on the planet. This […]
It’s time we took Valentine’s Day back from Hallmark, FTD and Fannie May. Show your valentine you love them by giving them a greener earth to live on. Even better, why don’t we all ask Mother Earth to be our valentine this year? ARE YOU GOING TO SAY IT […]
There was always a globe in my grade school classrooms. I loved to spin it around and imagine traveling to exotic places. But most of all I loved finding my own spot and thinking about my bit of the earth as part of the whole globe. Interactive maps have taken […]
Digging in the Driftless 