If you’ve tuned into any news source recently, then you know that it seems as though we just can’t catch a break from disasters, either natural or manmade. First, Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 hurricane, made landfall in the United States causing widespread...
These days, unless an environmental issue is presented on a scale such as that depicted in doomsday movies (think oceans swallowing cities or asteroids crashing into the Earth), it can be easy to ignore or dismiss. Rising sea levels are a direct effect of climbing...
Coral reefs, known as the “rainforests of the sea,” are homes to some of the richest biodiversity on earth. They have been around for thousands of years, providing shelter to a quarter of all marine life while occupying only 0.2% of the total ocean. They are both...
In his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich made a terrifying prediction that the human population was on a rapid path to extinction because there were simply too many of us and demand would exceed the supply of the Earth’s...
The Farm to Table movement has recently become a national trend. The movement focuses on the sale of products directly to local homes and restaurants, rather than through global grocery stores and markets. This trend is intended to focus on creating a better world by...
Last month I wrote about some of what I had learned as a result of my study of a small island in the Florida Keys. I noted that I was often amazed at how much of history could be elucidated through a study of place rather than only through linear history. For me...
