It looks like it’s just icy enough to procrastinate on the church-going, but with a little care and a bit of rationalization, the Woodster thinks he can make it to the tavern just fine. That’s a good one and I think it defines two requirements for being human – rationalization and procrastination.  Have you ever [...]

As I watch the news and talk to my friends and associates, they all tell me the debate about global warming is over.  Many explain to me that we are destroying the planet by driving our cars and polluting the atmosphere with CO₂ gas.  That’s carbon dioxide, the gas in soda pop. Imagine that.  The late, [...]

For all the challenges we face in ecology, I think it’s good to step back from time to time, put things in perspective, and examine the good news as well. So here are a couple of good news items for you.  Did you know we actually use less energy per person today than we did [...]

A positive ecological move in our modern society is the reduction of paper check usage.  Check usage has been around for a long time.  The Romans had a form of checks, although I imagine usage was quite limited. I have trouble imaging that Spartacus sat down every month and wrote out checks to pay his [...]