“I’m working on a food chain, looking for a bite to chew. Out here on the food chain, telling you boys it’s true. You are what you eat. You also are what eats you.” Working on a food chain. 1985 folk song by Mark Graham The bottom line—right here at […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
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Wind kicked up on the north end of Admiralty Island where no one lives. Thinking it might be wind that sometimes blows for half an hour at the bottom of the ebb then stops, and being in the rowboat, I anchored near shore to take a nap. Woke up […]
Part II in a series on outstanding volunteer-run assets in the Capital City Marie Drake Planetarium is open. People find their seats, they look at the star ball in the center of the room. Above them is the white domed roof thirty-feet across. The place fills to capacity. Parents talk, […]
Stoves are meant to take the heat. Chimneys aren’t. That’s why flammable creosote in a chimney is problematic. As the Chimney Safety Institue of America (yes, there is one) points out, clean chimneys don’t burn. It’s spring. Trees are leafing out. Rhubarb and garlic are up in the garden. Finches […]
Why this is a great idea Forty percent of humanity still cooks and heats with solid fuel (wood, dung, agricultural waste, coal, etc) over open fires or leaky stoves. Deforestation ruins the land. Pollution inside the home kills over 4 million people per year; the majority of them women and […]
Smoking fish is like brewing beer in the sense that commercial operations strive to make a consistent product. People doing it at home strive to come up with something so good they have to call their friends at odd hours and say, “You’ve got to try this.” Smoking is the […]
On January 2nd I went out back to fill up the wood box and there were deer tracks in the snow all over the yard. It happens every year—first week of January—deer pass within twenty feet of the house. Kind of the deer’s way of saying, ‘Neener! Neener! Neener!’ How […]
How Israel’s water and agricultural technologies don’t even work for Israel “California I hear has a big water problem. We in Israel don’t have a water problem. We use technology to solve it…” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to California Governor Jerry Brown in March 2014. “If you were planning […]
Desalination: more salt than Lot’s wife “Israel leads the world in water recycling and desalination. We’ll share our technology with India and provide clean water for millions.” Benjamin Netanyahu on Twitter, 07.06.2017 “In time, it’s going to become impossible to use desalination in a way that makes economic sense. The […]
Last Updated: 10.14.2014 State Mandated Water Poverty “Today the Golden People of California have elected to adopt Israel’s water model. Now, in order for this thing to work, half of you will get 15 percent of your water. We Golden People will get 85 percent of your water, plus we […]
Israel’s only major freshwater lake may disappear Last updated October 14, 2018. “Set sail on the beautiful Sea of Galilee with an inspirational time of praise and worship.” from a brochure for ‘Christians United for Israel’ founder John Hagee’s 2018 tour of the Jewish state. “The Kinneret will never go […]
The lower Jordan river is a wreck “The river one hundred twenty feet wide and six feet deep, gravelly bottom; current five knots.” W.F. Lynch, USN, Commander of the Jordan River Expedition, in 1848. “All our lives we had studied and sung about this stream so we visualized a […]