Who are the Democrats For?
The Big Picture on Whose Behalf the Dems Are Working [Go to Not Going Back - Guide to 2024 Presidential Election][Go to Biden Admin Accomplishments] As long as I can remember, Democrats have been accused ....
Category: Environment
Aurora Fredericalis
We are sitting around after dinner, phone rings, its Vera and Bob. "Where was that place we went to see the comet out in the countryside? We are trying to see the aurora." "Wait, are ....
View from Sandusky Bay, Ohio, North America, Planet Earth
The tulips glowed in their bedWith friendly bulbs of yellow and red.The children played a game of tagUntil my 4-year-old began to nag:“I’m too hot, Mom, there’s too much sun,I want to go inside, this ....
Belated Announcement
Going a Little Greener with a Leaf I am happy to announce our purchase of a new all-electric car, the Nissan Leaf. The Leaf replaces our 2007 Honda Civic, and joins our other car, a ....
Where Are Those Eight Billion People?
With the UN estimating that the world population reached eight billion people on 15 November 2022, now is a good time to look at where those people live. The World in 2020 First let’s look ....
Five Years of Recent History
So much has been going on lately in the news that I created a chart to keep track of all (that is: some) of it. Right before the election seemed like a good time to ....
Virginia Voters Face Clear Climate Choices in Congressional Races
The US is on the cusp of cleaning up our economy in order to avert dangerous levels of climate change, but the hour is late and what our political leaders do now is critical. As ....
Save Money, Save Ukraine, Save Earth
My recent op-ed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Background information about electric cars. More on human-caused climate change.
US Energy Independence
Given the need to isolate Russia, a major exporter of fossil fuels, let’s take a look at US production of fossil fuels in recent decades. The big picture: through three presidential adminstrations, we’ve been producing ....
Nerds in Bed
Usually Girl dives right into the ocean of sleep and it is Boy whose mind wanders in the dark from island to island. One time near the beginning, Girl was the one who couldn’t sleep. ....