Category Archives: Environment

Doomed But Not Done

September 21, 2014 – 9:15 am

Mankind might well be on the precipice. We are seemingly doomed by man-made climate change , but that doesn’t mean we have to give up. Cut your energy costs by shutting off the lights, the voodoo transformers, and curtail your driving to a minimum. The money you save is money stolen from the energy companies. […]

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Big Coal Burn Burn

June 2, 2014 – 9:31 am

On Oct. 28, 1948 Donara PA was blanketed by a deadly smog inversion, killing at least 20 citizens of the town run by US Steel, which claimed the pollution was an act of God. This environmental disaster forced people to rethink the control of clean air standards and led to the creation of the EPA. […]

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Kansas Shakes

April 21, 2014 – 3:47 pm

Last year Oklahoma was hit by eighty-three tornadoes. Twenty-three citizens were killed on May 14 in Cleveland OK and on May 20 thirteen cyclones struck the state. No one in the state government mentioned global warming as a cause of the upswing, despite temperatures breaking records throughout the summer. Oklahoma is not only the Buckle […]

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Pas De Voitures – Paaris 2014

March 20, 2014 – 11:22 am

Last Friday Devlin and I arrived at Gare Du Nord from Bruxelles. We had read in the newspaper that Paris was suffering from a toxic smog. The pollution levels hit 180 microgrammes of PM10 particulates per cubic metre, which was twice more the safety limit of 80. The Hotel de Ville banned cars from within […]

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Pete Seeger Bridge

February 24, 2014 – 6:32 pm

According to Wikipedia the Hudson River was known as Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk by the Iroquois and Muhheakantuck or ‘river that flows both ways’ by the Lenape tribe. The tidal estuary was a great passageway into the interior and provided fish and shellfish in great abundance. Back in the 70s my friend James Spicer cooked shad roe in […]

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