Sticker Madness

This page is still a work in progress, but please check in soon for bumper stickers to choose and download.

Conservation April 7, 2013

In the Golden Desert, ancient engineering still saves water — clean, drinkable, water

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 ….

Attitude April 2, 2013

Dear Mr. President

Dear Mr. President:

My enclosed book, Ideas Into Words, is a gift as well as a credential of sorts (it is the science-writing text used at MIT). I was for many years editor of the Johns Hopkins University Magazine. Much of what our magazine did was translate cutting-edge science for non-specialists, and 25 years of that work has left me with an unusual viewpoint of science and the natural world, one that is both insider and outsider. This letter offers a nugget from that understanding that I think may be helpful to you, faced as you are with huge decisions amid conflicting arguments.

Appropriate technology February 26, 2013

What can we learn from the “preppers”?

For the grandparent generation, “prepping lite” makes sense. If we’re all doing it, the attitude will be catching, and the world will be halfway to the bigger changes that may be needed.

Buy local January 31, 2013

Riding the Long-Distance Bus

I’ve sworn off long-distance solo driving, because it’s such an egregious waste. I should send all that CO2 into the sky to save myself three hours? Oh no. But that leaves me on a bus—just like 50 years ago, only not. Here’s how it was.

Climate November 29, 2012

Garbage

Less garbage, more conservation—that’s what the world and our grandchildren’s future require. But how? Here are two sources: Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte and energyrealities.org.

Bicycles November 2, 2012

Here’s a bike alternative…

…the electric velomobile—rather like a recumbent bike, but more covered and with the capacity for cargo. Or consider the cargo bike, often called the SUV of bicycles, or even the just-plain electric bike.