The Earth Is Not a Trash Can

The Earth is not a Trash Can

• But Was It Live?
  A grenade was dropped into a litter bin in the United Kingdom. Read here. […]
• Will Man Survive?
  The Vanishing of a Species? by Peter Gretener is about the future of homo sapiens. Will we survive as a species? Peter Gretener wrote most of the book in the 70s. He was a geologist and geophysicist. Since his death, his son Nicholas edited and published the book. Many chapters are undeveloped, but the themes are worth noting. I was amazed at the observation […]
• Great American Clean Up, Week Two
  One of the neighborhoods along Newsom Station Road, Lexington Point, has contacted me about helping to clean up this stretch of road. Hopefully, we’ll have a group clean up on April 17 or April 24. Today, one woman (me) with one bag (in photo) cleaned up the area that is above Beech Creek. The trash eventually washes down into the creek which flows into the […]
• Carbon Neutral Blog
  A German group has a goal to contribute their part in reducing the carbon footprint by raising awareness of the severe environmental damage caused by carbon emissions. One of their activities is to raise awareness of the carbon emissions resulting from the use of the internet – specifically of blogs. A blog with 15,000 visits a month has a yearly carbon diox […]
• NYU Wants to Reduce Carbon Footprint
  A news release received today: For Immediate Release: March 12, 2010 Contact: Christopher James 212.998.6876 christopher.james@nyu.edu NYU Releases Climate Action Plan to Reduce Carbon Footprint Aiming for Climate Neutrality by 2040 through Comprehensive Emissions Reduction Strategies New York University today released its Climate Action Plan (CAP), a compre […]
• Can You Move Mountains
  This post was sent to me by a faithful reader. It’s an interesting story about destructive coal mining in Tennessee and our lawmakers. […]
• Poplar Creek Road
  Some group cleaned up the trash on Poplar Creek Road. They might have been neighbors who live along the road or community service workers working off time for DUIs and other offenses. Anyway I appreciate what these folks did. Unfortunately when I returned on my trip on Poplar Creek Road, someone had thrown out a case of sodas. Why? […]
• One Cool Letter on Litter
  I love this letter published in the Irish Times: Madam, – If I were a tourist I would feel extremely uncomfortable eating out in a country which is populated by a people so lacking in (environmental) hygiene that they leave their cities, towns and highways strewn with litter on a scale that is nothing short of astonishing. The extent of this problem is massi […]
• Great American Clean Up Week One
  When I first became active in the Great American Clean Ups three years ago, I learned that not everyone is as enthusiastic about cleaning up someone else’s mess as I am. I’ve made a goal to clean up Newsome Station Road near my home during the next three months whether anyone helps me or not. Today I picked up 70 cans and plastic bottles off the side of the […]
• World Without Oil
  We saw a promo last night for this upcoming special on the National Geographic channel. Here is the a description of the program: What would our world look like if we ran out of oil? The lifeblood of our high-tech, highly mobile world won’t last forever. Watch one scenario of what happens when one day oil does run out. How might our world change and how woul […]