Earthlings Letter #5 – “Still Life”…Let’s Talk about Rocks!
Greetings Earthlings! For a while we are going to leave the lively strutting of life that photosynthesis makes, the plants and animals and us, and take a look at the ‘still life’ of rocks. Rocks! One of my favorite things on Earth. Those objects that just sit there and don’t go anywhere, but they contain…
Read MoreEarthling Letter # 4 – Seeing GREEN!
Greetings Earthlings! I’m seeing GREEN! Winter was coming to an end in the North east of the United States when I arrived last week. All the trees and shrubs were shades of brown and grey except the plants we call ‘evergreen’. The sun shown on the fine branch tips and they flashed in the wind…
Read MoreIllyria’s World
Check out Susan’s eBook Illyria’s World! Join Illyria on her adventures with Sunny the Robot as she explores climate change.
Read MoreRELACCX Conference Interview with Rengenuity
Our second interview was with Antonio Antonopoulos, Brandon Noakes (Millennium Energy Finance) and Jose Biaou (MEF). Their goal is to help small scale renewables get a sufficient amount of financing from private sources and in that way give banks confidence to provide the balance of funding necessary to make their project viable. We talked about…
Read MoreLearning to Observe
Greetings Earthlings! What is happening out there? The only way to find out is to look around and notice stuff. For instance, right now I am sitting on a swing and a light breeze is blowing. Over head I observe many small dark birds. It is early evening and I think to myself what is…
Read MoreSolar Panels on the White House
Check out the process of putting solar panels on the White House…
Read MoreThe Life of a Root
Greetings Earthlings! Soil. What is it good for? Why is there so much of it around under our feet? Very nice to look at, walk on and run on…but that couldn’t be the whole story… Let’s look at soil from the point of view of a root and maybe we can begin to ‘get to the root’ of…
Read MoreLet’s take a closer look at: dirt
Greetings Earthlings!, I have been thinking about dirt. (should we ‘treat it like dirt?) What use is it? What is it? Turns out this question keeps people who study dirt, pedologists, busy for a lifetime. Pedology is the study of the nature and history of soils (soil is another word for dirt). Pedology, what a…
Read MoreGreen Airports – An Interview with Grazia Zanin and Max Shauck
In the late 1970s and early1980’s Max Shauck was experimenting with developing airplane engines to fly on ethanol fuel. He was also test flying these planes with engines he had modified for ethanol. He was motivated and inspired by the effects of the Arab oil embargo of the 70’s (gas rationing, lines at stations, etc.)…
Read MoreSustainable Agriculture – Interview with John Ikerd on 12/17/2014
The following are notes I took during the interview. I hope they give some sense of the feeling and scope of the conversation we had (Jeff Beller, John Ikerd and I). I suggest that you look it up in our archives and listen for yourself. It was an enjoyable experience for all of us and…
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