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Calling All Grandparents
Helping the grandparent generation make sure the children we love, all over the world, inherit an Earth they can live on. Newcomers, start here.
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One spring very long ago, as a proud first-time home-owner, I thought I’d start a garden. I’d never done it before, but I’d had a windowbox that looked great. How hard could it be? So I chipped a few holes into the orange clay beside my driveway and jammed in some johnny jumpups.
Predictably, the poor little violets died in record time, but I was lucky in my neighbors, one…
Someone asked me the other day what I make of recent reports that global warming is slowing down. Well, hmm. I did say I would no longer doom and gloom, didn’t I? However, you asked. So I have to say that as far as I can see, global warming has not slowed. What’s true is that air temperatures did not rise in the 12 years of this century as fast …
Point one: Below you’ll find a video that moved me to tears and made me want to empty my bank account. The children are so beautiful, the need so great, the creativity so profound, and the subject so central—music, something the entire world shares. (Thanks for the tip, Judy Sandoval.) If you also want to help, Kickstarter is the place to go.
Point two: Today I updated a post from…
I promised a friend recently that I would start posting daily. He said (more or less this baldly), “You talk about all these interesting ideas, and then I can’t find them in the site. That’s dumb. You should just write a page every day, and some of it will be wonderful and some of it will be crap, and so what? That’s the way the web is. Just do it.…
Once upon a time, it was engineers—often after a stint at Harvard or the Wharton School of Business—who ran technical companies, like Big Oil. Now they don’t. Money men do. What difference does it make? A big one.
Here’s a plug for one of the old, old ways, as practiced in the Golden Desert of India, where they harvest water, and HAVE water, that is gathered by roofs and pavements and is stored (clean) in systems that are centuries old and still working. The locals ….