exploring nature’s infinite connections
Today, I came across a quote from Rachel Carson that I liked about the ocean. It also encouraged me to think about all the fortunate interactions with the sea I've had over the years, especially the underwater ones. Indeed, one of the most memorable was interacting...
Imagine, if you will, when you are born, right on your birth certificate - you are given an account number, a revolving line of credit. But instead of a financial one, it is an ecological one. Let's assume it starts with a zero balance. Even though bringing you into...
Sometimes I think my blood is part seawater, which is a strange statement coming from someone born in Detroit. Typically the closest we get to salt would be salt & vinegar chips or the salt mines underneath the city that help with icy roads. But with each and...
For those unfamiliar with Europa, it is one of Jupiter's 79 known moons with a water-ice crust. There is a hypothesis that life could exist in the oceans beneath this crust. I read a book by Jeremy Robinson, Beneath, about an expedition to Europa some time ago, a...
Last Sunday, I finished a 9-day training course with the Climate Reality Project. It was virtual for the first time this year due to the pandemic, but also enabled them to train 10,000 new people around the world in a little more than a week. They join the existing...
More plastic than fish by weight by 2050. That is just an amazingly horrifying prediction. For sure, in a year where "alarming trends" seem to be hitting us from everywhere, it is easy to feel numb by now. The year 2020 may just well go down in history unmatched in...
You can't really see that far when descending into the deep blue. On a really good day in the Caribbean you might be able to see 100 feet, perhaps more. Much less so in the Great Lakes, where seeing 25 feet is a really good day. It is quite the contrast to being on a...
Within the depths of the sea For this soon to pass World Oceans Day, I feel somewhat at a loss for words when trying to convey my own impressions of, and concerns for, the oceans of this planet. Our oceans have been, and continue to be in serious trouble....
Warning: Unfiltered, unorganized thoughts shall follow.... I am pretty surprised that I don't live closer to the ocean. For as much time as I could spend there, I am probably suited to live in a sea shell. Then again, how would one keep the inside of a sea shell...