Today is Edward Abbey’s birthday. For those of you who haven’t read any of his books, he is probably most known for The Monkey Wrench Gang, which was published in 1975. The Monkey Wrench Gang centers around...
Climate change is no longer something we need to worry about for the future. It’s already here and it’s already costing us money, not to mention the lives of other species with whom we share our planet. Here...
January 2, 2019
I try to read Nature quotes every day because they keep me focused on what really matters. In the old days, before the Industrial Revolution, people could get away with exploiting Nature’s abundant treasures....
October 29, 2018
I think we need to start viewing meat consumption like smoking cigarettes. Because despite the negative impacts on human health, despite the cruelty to animals, and despite the environmental degradation, human beings...
July 22, 2018
Researchers at the University of Portsmouth and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) have unwittingly engineered a mutant enzyme that can super-charge the breakdown of PET plastic...
April 16, 2018
You don’t have to look too far today to find an overwhelming amount of data on why we should all be eating plantbased diets. Whether it’s for your health, for the health of the planet, for the next generation...
April 4, 2018
The answer is: no. And it’s not good for other people or other species either. Humans have been eating tuna for a long time. According to the journal New Scientist, people have been deep sea fishing for tuna...
April 3, 2018
I am not a scientist. If I had been good at chemistry, my path would have been clear: I would be zooming around in a Zodiac off the Farallon Islands right now looking for great white sharks, or in a lab somewhere...
February 19, 2017
When I was an environmental studies major at San Francisco State, I had a biogeography professor named Dr. George Treichel. He had a few distinct characteristics, for which his students loved him. He had been a game...
January 28, 2017
Spring is here in Pacifica and I thought it would be a good use of my time to take a break from UniGuide and go out to the backyard and see what's going on. I was happy to see lots of bees buzzing around the Pride...
January 25, 2017
On average, every four minutes: 4 people in the U.S will die of a heart disease-related event. (The Heart Foundation) Americans will spend $2.5 million on diabetes-related healthcare costs, which can be tied...
January 18, 2017
When I read Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s letter to their new baby girl, Max, on December 1st, I was aware that I was reading it from my own viewpoint–a set of values developed partly by how I was...
January 8, 2016