Paper or Plastic?
Significant Plastic Problems Still Remain in a California without Plastic Bags Breaking California’s decades-long reliance on the convenience of plastic bags, local... Read More
Golden, Grizzly or Brown Bear
By whatever name, Ursus arctos survives and thrives only in areas with few humans As a kid, I was fascinated with the... Read More
Bill Gates Weighs in on ‘The Bet’ over the Earth’s Future
In 1981, the same year that Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft, an economist and an ecologist made a simple but... Read More
The California We Lost: California’s Precious, Beleaguered Wetlands
Wetlands, once disparaged as wastelands that produce little more than muck, stench, pestilence and swarms of mosquitos, are now recognized as one... Read More
California’s Sinking San Joaquin Valley
I have written often about California’s worsening water resource problems. At the same time our population and water demands are growing, with... Read More
Fracking Our Way to Freedom?
Domestic U.S. oil production peaked in about 1970, fulfilling an outlandish prediction made back in 1956 at a meeting of the American... Read More
Young, Hip, Leftie Journalists & Enviros Are Often Clueless About Immigration-Overpopulation-Environment Connection
In my two decades in the trenches, as a somewhat reluctant warrior in our country’s seemingly endless and intractable skirmishes over the... Read More
Conservation is More Complicated Than it Used to be
Thanks to a friend of mine in New Mexico – veteran Western river-runner, naturalist, teacher and author Verne Huser – I recently... Read More
Avoiding Overpopulation by Escaping to the Stars? Don’t Bet your Life – or the Earth – on it
A widely reported study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that there could be as many as 40 billion... Read More
Discovering Exoplanets While Destroying the Home Planet
I recall a poster in a science classroom depicting a radiant blue, white and brown orb afloat in the darkness of space:... Read More