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Earth, April 22, 2014 Dear Earth, Not gonna wish you a ‘Happy’ anything today, because there’s not really a lot to be happy about. I just want to say I’m sorry that we humans have f*cked you up so much, and that I promise that I personally will do better in the coming […] For more, read this article in the Huffington Post: Santa Checks In From Melting North Pole, Says Christmas May Be Canceled Also read this, from The Guardian: US Navy predicts summer ice free Arctic by 2016 And this, from International Business Times: New Study Says Arctic Ice Melt And Extreme Weather Conditions In US, […] Star Spangled Banjo at the Grand Canyon from JFOX on Vimeo. Many small people, who in many small places, do many small things, can alter the face of the world. — Adage from the Xhosa of South Africa Many of us in the Highlands have had a difficult run-up to the holiday. Hurricane Sandy hit us with an ugly punch-to-the-gut on October 29th, testing our […] An excellent climate change explainer (awesome!), and discussion of climate change on a Sunday morning talk show (shocking!)?? Everybody’s been talking about the weather. With fires raging in Colorado, record breaking heat all across the country, a “post-derecho” Washington, DC sizzling in 100-plus degree temps without electricity or air conditioning, the impact due […] Irene showed up on Saturday night in a fury of wind and sideways rain, but caused no serious problems for me. When she left on Sunday, however, she was a bit angrier – high winds and soft soils made for an eventful day here in Byram and across most of the rest of the state, […] |