Our Plastic Future is Now
“I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.” "Plastics" scene from The Graduate. “Yes sir?” “Are... Read More
Nature’s Peace, Quiet Shattered by Noise
Some years ago, when I lived in New Mexico, I had the privilege of backpacking in the Gila Wilderness of the Gila... Read More
Burgeoning Population: What Happens in China Doesn’t Stay in China
As a naïve, youthful world bicycle traveler back in 1984, I toured through China when it opened to international visitors. I fulfilled... Read More
Awful Air Pollution
It Costs Billions of Dollars and Millions of Lives Annually A 2015 study in the scientific journal Nature found that outdoor air... Read More
Our Home in the Heavens
Every August, in its annual journey around the Sun, our Earth passes through a stream of debris known as the Perseid cloud,... 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
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
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
In my 20s as a teacher, each summer I pedaled to distant countries to discover people, cultures and landscapes. I rode my... Read More
Desperate Chinese Are Buying Bottles of ‘100% Pure Rocky Mountain Air’
The smog really is that bad in Beijing…and India’s cities too Like many overcrowded, bursting cities in developing countries around the world,... Read More
Mother Nature Drugged with Our Pharmaceuticals
In 1996, pharmacologist and wildlife toxicologist Theo Colborn, Ph.D. (1927-2014) published her landmark book, Our Stolen Future, coauthored with Dianne Dumanoski and... Read More