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Mar.14.2011
So, history is moving with a type of terminal velocity right now and I've got a few personal thoughts that I think I'd like to share. Something gruesome is happening and somehow we need to accept, appreciate and consider the impending beauty.
Lately when I watch the news or read the paper I find my...
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Jan.19.2011
In having a conversation here, on Red Room, I have been reminded of the upswelling of energy that sometimes greets us as we move through our personal journeys. As writers, as humans, there is very little distinction between our experience and the way it shapes our writing. Of course there are...
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Sep.29.2010
Can I fry an egg on it? 08/27/2010 3 Comment(s) Yesterday, two engineers from NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center visited my company (Signatec) to conduct a system acceptance analysis on the 16-channel, 1.5 GHz per channel recording system we will supply in a few weeks. Signatec's system will...
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Sep.26.2010
Debate continues as to the cause of the extinction of the human species. Humans were top predators for several million years. They seem to have been a single species. They were to be found on almost every part of the planet they called Earth, the majority living in huge colonies. Like the dinosaurs...
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Sep.24.2010
The point of moving in a direction is to see what movement brings. Does the scenery change, how does it change? What about the people? Does the cold make them different, those months of being dug under like the bears and the trees? The heat, too, what does that do? Does it make a man less likely or...
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Sep.15.2010
Dear Those-Of-You-Who-Are-Good-With-Words,
Last week as fires raged through two communities near (San Bruno) and dear (Boulder) to me, I thought about how natural gas, like oil, explodes—and wildfires are worse now because the snowpacks are melting. Disaster after disaster, I keep noticing how our...
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Jul.23.2010
The joys of singing of the rain, of the stars, of the mystery of life somehow seem obscured. There is a sense that the planet we know will never again be worthy of songs of joy but those of beseeching or denial. The most important thing is not to hide inside our houses or within the stream of media...
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Jun.16.2010
So you think you can tell Greens from ‘browns,' activists from executives, environmental doomsayers from sunny corporate CEOs? Can you tell someone who is on your side of the climate change debate from someone to oppose? Then go ahead, take this easy quiz. Identify who's behind these extreme...
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Mar.05.2010
Just got a book to review, "Eaarth," by Bill McKibben. Not a misspelling.
Imagine we live on a planet.
Not our cozy,
taken-for-granted earth,
but a planet, a real one,
with dark poles
and belching volcanoes
and a heaving, corrosive sea,
raked by winds,
strafed by storms,
scorched by heat.
An...
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Feb.19.2010
Todd Stern, a climate negotiator during Bill Clinton’s presidency and more recently a fellow at the Center for American Progress, will assume the role of special envoy for climate change at the State Department. “We have no shortage of evidence that our world is facing a climate crisis,” said...
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