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COP28 will be (at best) a “try”
After “may the force be with you”, this is my favorite quote from Star Wars. A level up from calling someone “all talk, no action”. COP28 will start the last day of November. As if to telegraph how uncommitted to meaningful action it will be, it’s being held in Dubai in […]
Systems Changes Needed in Governance, Insurance and Disaster Preparedness
I was in the room seven years ago when David Houle, the futurist, addressed the annual conference of Sarasota County realtors. If you don’t know, Sarasota is a seaside city on the Gulf coast of Florida. It has several heavily populated barrier islands just a couple feet above sea level. He said, “When will it […]
The Necessity, Responsibility and Right to Repair
I have three functional and operational VCRs. I understand that this opening statement is not something one could, or should, normally brag about in the world of digital streaming, but the VCRs work. And I have dozens and dozens of VHS recordings that I still enjoy. I will also confess that three of the five […]
It is now a Monthly Event
Every month this summer has broken a heat record. June was the hottest June in history. July was the hottest July in history. August was not only the hottest August ever, it was the hottest month ever recorded. The average global temperature was 1.25 degrees Celsius warmer than the 20th century average. This means that […]
Crewing the Ship: How 3 Individuals From Different Origins Formed This Spaceship Earth
In case you’re interested in how This Spaceship Earth came to be, USA Today published an article that tells our origin story. The link to the article in USA Today is at the bottom of this post. Here’s the content from the article: Imagine life on the International Space Station. The spacecraft, which […]
Hieroglyphic Stairway – my great, great grandchildren won’t let me sleep
It says above that I authored this. I did not… just found this poem and posted it. I’ve embedded the transcript below, but I think you’ll enjoy this video of the author reciting it more (you may need to click the replay button at the bottom left of the YouTube screen). Hieroglyphic Stairway by […]
A Clear and Present Danger
To many, my desk is a cluttered mess or a jigsaw puzzle of disconnected pieces that can never be assembled into a coherent picture. To me, my desk is a highly organized panorama of easily accessible tools of my craft interspersed with remembrances and waypoints of travels, adventures, people, places, joys, sorrows, hopes, philosophies, beliefs […]
Resetting the Realities of Our Climate Crisis
Reality, and one’s perception of reality, can change with a single event. An example would be the “earth rise “ photo taken by NASA astronauts in 1968. Though we knew that the earth was round, it was not until that photo that we saw it as a round planet in space. Another might be […]
Climate Literacy Must Be Taught in Schools
No matter how much progress we make in reducing the GHGs in our atmosphere (so far we’ve made none), ecosystem damage and severe weather events will continue for decades. Children in pre-K today will spend the entirety of their lives living in a climate much different from the one we grew up in. There […]
How to ‘Be Prepared’ in 2023
I was a Boy Scout. Since 1907 the motto of the global Scouting program has been, “Be Prepared”. Yet the 2023 Scout Jamboree was woefully unprepared for a myriad of severe weather-related issues that befell it in South Korea in early August. First, prior to the opening of the Jamboree, torrential monsoon rains caused […]
