Category Archives: Nature

The Renewal of the New World

September 25, 2010 – 1:14 am

The other night I sat through a speech of Evo Morales, the Bolivian president. He spoke in Spanish. His native language is that of the indigenous people of his landlocked nation. Quechua or Aymara. As a child Evo worked communal field where property belong to the village. He supports Socialism as the only social system […]

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A Tree Falls in Brooklyn

September 18, 2010 – 3:13 pm

Several severe micro-bursts of tornado strength wind ripped across the borough of Brooklyn knocking down thousands of trees. Big and small. Only one was toppled in Manhattan. High winds. Not a storm. The rain was finished by the time that I left work. Richie Boy and I subwayed to 23rd Street. He had to pick […]

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THE WAY OF SAIL by Peter Nolan Smith

July 25, 2010 – 12:36 pm

Once the world traveled by sail. One side of my ancestors arrived in America on the Mayflower. The trip lasted 66 days. My great-grandaunt Bert circumnavigated the globe in the 1870s. Her father’s clipper ship powered by wind. Steam engines replaced sail by the beginning of the 20th Century. Proud schooners and brigantines retired from […]

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Ecological Stomping Grounds

June 23, 2010 – 9:24 pm

British Petroleum’s latest attempt to seal the DeepWater oil spill ended with the underwater robots knocking off the capture siphon. Even more oil spews from the damaged oil head than before. The Pentagon is offering another plan to fuse the leak with a heat bomb. One mile down. No one else has offered up with […]

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Unacceptable Contrition

June 11, 2010 – 7:28 pm

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a disaster for the ocean. Another blow against Nature. An unparalleled ecological disaster without any end in sight. British Petroleum, Halliburton, and the Bureau of Mines and Minerals. Capitol, science, and government. A Triumvirate of failure. The American people want to know why. Someone had to […]

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