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Continue reading →: Wetland Services: The Netley-Libau Project
The University of Manitoba and Ducks Unlimited enlist the ecological services of one of North America’s largest freshwater wetlands. A fly-over Google Earth tour of the area prepared by the International Institute for Sustainable Development shows a huge delta marsh where the silt-laden Red River of the North flows into…
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Continue reading →: With Asimov’s Help, A City Library Survives
Tuesday was an opportunity for Michigan voters to set up contests for the November election and settle a lot of local issues, many of which were angry attempts to recall officials. In Troy, Michigan, an affluent suburb in Oakland County of about eighty thousand citizens, voters had the choice to…
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Continue reading →: Throwing in with the Pickens Plan
The family’s out with the van shopping or something, so, I’ve got the place to myself. I downloaded an archived broadcast (April 2011) of C-Span’s coverage of a National Press Club lunch meeting. Obviously, I lead an exciting life. The guest speakers were Ted Turner and T. Boone Pickens, talking…
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Continue reading →: Woodland Mortality from Land Application of Waste Hydrofracturing Fluid
The latest issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality contains a peer-reviewed research paper documenting the effects of flowback hydrofracturing fluid on a wood lot. The results reported in Land Application of Hydrofracturing Fluids Damages a Deciduous Forest Stand in West Virginia (Mary Beth Adams, USDA Forest Service Northern Research…
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Continue reading →: Andrew Revkin’s Resilience
Those who follow the excellent New York Times science blog Dot Earth probably know that its author, Andrew Revkin, suffered a mild stroke two weeks ago. Apparently while out for a run with his son, one of Andrew’s eyes started feeding his brain cartoon-like images. The next day, he was…
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Continue reading →: 25 Dirtiest Coal Plants in U.S.
According to a 2011 report by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), just 25 coal plants account for one-third of the mercury emissions from power generation in the United States. They produce only 8 percent of the electricity. “Top honors” go to the Martin Lake, Texas lignite plant owned by Energy Future…
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Continue reading →: USGS Raises World Lithium Estimate
Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni (Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons). As a college student around 1976 I took a general ecology class taught by Jim Strayer. There was much discussion of non-renewable resources and the inevitable prospect of running out of gas. We’d already experienced gas shortages in 1973-74. Mr. Strayer wanted…
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Continue reading →: Introducing Paul Gipe
Paul Gipe is an author, international consultant, frequent presenter, and expert on renewable energy and feed-in-tariffs. To keep up on recent developments in wind power and other renewable energy technologies and policies, I recommend Wind-Works.org, by Paul Gipe. I met Paul a couple of years ago at a seminar in…
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Continue reading →: New Soil Blogs
Years ago, a fellow geology major and friend who went on to graduate school to focus on structural geology and tectonics liked to “razz” those of us interested in surficial processes, dismissing it all as “superficial geology.” In rebuttal, someone would remind him that structure and tectonics are only significant…
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Continue reading →: Issa’s Wrong About Domestic Oil Production
Domestic oil production has risen the last two years, reversing a long decline. California Congressman Darrell Issa was on CNN’s In the Arena last night, accusing the Obama Administration of intentionally driving up fuel prices and stifling domestic production. The transcript from the program is available here. An excerpt: REP.…
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