A thief steals possessions, but possessions steal your life… undermining the true sense of what is valuable in life.
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Posted in Environment, Facebook, Journal, LinkedIn, Livejournal, Outdoors on Dec 5th, 2009
This morning I went to Discovery Park for a volunteer service project. I make regular use of this HUGE water-front park (larger than some state parks I’ve been in) so it seemed like an excellent way to spend the morning giving back. REI sponsored the vent and provided copious snacks and drinks, so much [...]
Posted in Environment, LinkedIn on Jun 11th, 2009
Posted in Environment, Livejournal on Dec 24th, 2008
2.6 Million Cubic Yards of Toxic Coal Ash Slurry Released in Tennessee Dike Burst
(Scientific American) The residue of millions of tons of coal burning at Kingston Fossil power plant in the Watts Bar Reservoir in Tennessee burst the bounds of the pond in which it was contained, burying as many as 400 acres of land [...]
Posted in Environment on May 5th, 2008
Avian Mafia has figured out the bird bath… found tiny, tiny feathers in it this morning. The avian equivalent of hair in the drain. Tony (the dominant male finch) got into a big fight with another bird on the feeder yesterday afternoon. Total micro-velociraptor throw down. Sort of a compromise…. Tony shared [...]
Posted in Environment on Apr 28th, 2008
It only took the local avian mafia a few days to figure out the bird feeder I put up last week. Territories have shifted a bit and my patio now appears to be contested space between three pairs of birds as well as the occasional stranger. The most aggressive and possessive of these [...]
Posted in Environment on Apr 16th, 2008
This morning, I opened my patio blinds to find several finches* sitting on my railing looking expectantly at me. I think they are suggesting I need a bird feeder. The unspoken suggestion on their fearless faces was “Nice patio. Itd be ashamed if anything were to happen to it.”
* My generic term for any tiny, [...]
Posted in Environment on Apr 4th, 2008
Interesting site and concept…
 ”If you have wondered whether, traffic problems, noise, foul air and risk of injury can be reduced or eliminated in neighbourhoods, this site will give you solutions to think about.
If you have pondered whether neighbourhoods can regain their tranquility, can be places for pedestrians to move freely, for neighbours to [...]
Posted in Environment on Apr 3rd, 2008
*hack, hack, cough, cough* So much pollen. Spores from the toxic jungle are flooding the skies of Atlanta, today. I’m pretty sure that through the yellow haze I saw an Ohmu plowing down Peachtree.
And this isn’t even an allergic reaction, my eyes and respiratory tract were physically blocked by the volume.
Posted in Environment on Mar 4th, 2008
(New York Times) Five luxury homes in a subdivision marketed as “built green†near here were destroyed or severely damaged by fire early Monday, and evidence at the scene suggested the fires might have been started by radical environmentalists who viewed the homes as violating rather than complementing the wooded wetlands in which they were [...]
Posted in Environment on Jan 27th, 2008
(World Wire) Today, the Bush administration put a “for sale” sign on trees in pristine roadless areas of the Tongass rainforest in Alaska – America’s largest national forest. This move by Bush officials to reverse roadless area protections parallels two others made recently in national forests located in Idaho and Colorado. Conservationists from across the [...]
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