Helping to Keep Wildlife Safe
I don’t usually buy canned sodas or its like but recently due to a medical procedure I needed to not eat for a day I need to hydrate very heavily. When I was throwing away the plastic that ties the six cans together I remembered something from years ago. Always use a knife or a […]
The Anhinga – the Clown of the Everglades
When I was a child living in West Miami, I rode my black 3-speed Phillips English Racer out along the Tamiami Trail and went fishing every weekend. That was when I first saw an Anhinga. After they swim underwater, looking sinuous like a snake (which is why they’re nicknamed the snake bird) they get out […]
How much oil does it take to bring you your water?
Probability Zero
Thirteen years ago I wrote my one and only effort at fiction. Analog, the science fiction magazine, had a feature of very short stories called “Probability Zero”. I do not know WHY I never submitted it, but I have just come across it among my old papers and have decided to publish it myself here. […]
More About The Monarch Butterfly
Another way to use less plastic
This picture should be self explanatory. No more big plastic laundry detergent jugs in my house! And you can even buy them at Publix!
Lane Guthrie
I wasn’t the only environmental activist in the ‘60’s. One of the more illustrious was an Easter Airlines pilot named Lane Guthrie. In those days as a plane landed the unburned fuel was blown into the air as a safety measure. Less to explode and burn in a crash. But we were fighting to pass […]
Save Bat Habitats
When Your Monarch Caterpillars Have Eaten Themselves Out Of House and Home
I had unbelievable success in attracting Monarch Moms after planting milkweeds. In no time at all though the little bastards had stripped every leaf off the four plants. So I went to the nursery and bought four more. Then the coolest thing happened: for the first time in my life I saw a Monarch Mom […]
Is the Monarch Butterfly Yet Another Canary in the Coal Mine?
I said it would be a bit before I wrote another post. But three weeks ago I saved the article linked here from the New York Times, that the Monarch had been added to the Endangered Species list. You will be shocked and disturbed (I hope) to read the decline in the population of the […]