A Heartwarming Look at Californians’ Love Affair with Their Wildlife
Book Review of When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors: People and Wildlife Working It Out in California By Beth Pratt-Bergstrom Several years ago,... Read More
Today is World Population Day
As critical an issue as population growth is to the future of people and the planet, it is typically given short shrift... Read More
Booming Illegal Trade in Wildlife is Decimating World’s Biodiversity
Today is World Environment Day (WED), designated by the United Nations as a day to increase worldwide awareness of our environment and... Read More
Once-Wild West Disappearing Under Development
But Shhh! Mustn’t Mention that Rampant Population Growth is a Major Reason Why Subdivisions subdue the once Golden State. San Jose Mercury... Read More
Acid Rain: Still with Us
With the start of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s, we began spewing billions of tons of smoke and noxious fumes... Read More
Aided and Abetted by Humans, Wildfires are Torching Canada, California, the Planet
Ironies abound as a massive forest fire, nicknamed “the Beast,” recently brought tar sands production to a halt in the Canadian province... Read More
My New Lawn Mower
About eight years ago, I moved from overpopulated, environmentally challenged California to rural western Pennsylvania and into a house that has about... Read More
California Not Alone in Suffering through a Water Crisis; India is Baking, Blistering
Killer Heat Wave, Drought Devastate India Indian farmer in the southern state of Telangana in his cotton field, which so far in... Read More
Most Creative Water Conservation Award Goes to San Rafael Pacifics Baseball Team
As California enters its summer and early fall months – the mostly rainless June, July, August and September – Hollywood’s rich and... Read More
Earth Day No. 47
In 1970, as a college senior, I bicycled along chalk-filled sidewalks of the Red Cedar River on Michigan State University’s campus. Peace... Read More