I wrote about wetlands in Today Is World Wetlands Day 2011. In that post you can find out more about wetlands, why they’re important and what their role could have been in preventing some of the destruction and sorrow during Hurricane Katrina. Below is the World Wetlands Destruction infographic detailing the current state of our […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hurricane Irene of 2011 hit the Caribbean, the East Coast of the United States and Canada with extensive flooding, high wind damage and heavy rain. On August 20th Irene began to form and by the time she dissipated on August 29th the death toll in the US rose to 40 across 7 states. So why […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Each year World Wetlands Day is celebrated on February 2nd. So what is World Wetlands Day and why should we care about wetlands anyway? Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
Photo Credit: Flickr photographer Editor B / Bart Everson This really says it all about the problems of blighted property and absentee landlords in our neighborhood”. ~Editor B / Bart Everson We eat, live and we breath this. You know, that’s how we grew up, doing this… We hope and we pray for the best. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t care about anything else but my people being free. Everything else is low priority. My career, any brass rings that they hand out to me, I don’t give a shit. I don’t feel comfortable with my quote unquote success. I feel like it’s just the most ephemeral, fantasy set of circumstances to live […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The adventures of Obama continue and this week they included a very long press conference, all kinds of stern words in every direction and a trip to the Gulf in khakis (or are those slacks? I’m thinking maybe a lightweight bedford cotton blend? Well, for this post they’re darkly colored khakis damnit!). Look, it may […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Let me start by saying I have heard this theory before following this earthquake. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez, long critical of the United States and its policies claims that the US the earthquake that has devastated Haiti was caused by a secret tectonic weapon that was being tested by the US Navy. The weapon claims […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
p l a t o o n [#1] by Jesse Wright As a kid I remember reading about WWII battles during Christmas and thinking how awful that was. “Those soldiers would have been happier at home for Christmas. It sucks the people in charge couldn’t give them a day off.” Like I said I was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Believe it or not some people are allergic to their homes. Bad reactions to chemicals used in the building materials is usually to blame. There is a recent wave of bad reactions to homes in the U.S. lately and homeowners are blaming drywall from China. For some this isn’t surprising because of the toxic toys […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Based on a ruling Friday by from the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans Hurricane Katrina victims may have standing to sue oil and coal companies for producing greenhouse gases, contributing to global warming and rising ocean temperatures, which in turn contributed to the ferocity of hurricanes. Does that sound like a lot? Does that sound […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
