Water is key. And air. And incentive. Time for all divers to go to sea.
The Last Loon of the Year is Learning to Fly
Bear Picking
Not many berries this year. Very small kinnikinnik berries, and that’s about it. And not a lot of them. Berry patch mostly rock, too. Still, the pickers come. … and go. […]
Car Culture in the Okanagan
There’s no water in this well. It’s art. In the interest of environmental goodness, to create art like this the land must first be covered with a continuous sheet of woven black plastic […]
The Beaches of Cascadia
If your country started out as a chain of volcanoes …. …very exotic volcanoes… … in the tropical Pacific, very different volcanoes …. … in five different island chains over 150 million […]
Earth Batteries Are Superior for Energy Generation and Transport
Clouds join the poles… not of positive and negative electron charges, but of light and dark hills, created by clouds. In these grassland valleys, wind is the electrical charge. Notice: no wires. […]
Riding Across the Face of the Sun: the Case for Beauty
A sail is a solar-powered device, which inserts itself within the intersections of solar, aquatic and atmospheric energy, all of which ultimately formed either by the sun or by the forces of gravitational […]
Sagebrush and Global Cooling
The image below shows a water strider. It uses the intermolecular bonds of water to hold itself up. If you look closely you can see the water bend beneath it, as if […]
Chopaka: the Holy Mountain
At the height of the Cascade Mountains, at the lip of the North Pacific Rainforest, two rivers rise: the Skagit, which flows on through a dam system to provide water for Seattle and seeps on through […]
