I had planned on getting a “meatier” post up this week, but I’ve been busy with other stuff. I hope to have something more substantive up in a few days. How many of you have ever seen coffee “on the hoof?” This image is from right outside the house I’m living in on a sustainable, [...]

I just checked over at the NASA Earth Observatory web site, and they have a new image up for today showing the massive amount of oil that is collecting around the Mississippi barrier islands. All the silver-ish swirls you see on the water is oil from the spill. I’ve downsized it from its original size. [...]

I don’t post the following to make people feel sad. I post it because there are those out there that need to wake up and really see one of the many tragic consequences of our petroleum-fueled lifestyles, and what it is doing to the world we live in and depend on for our very existence. [...]

I experienced a lot of magic on my recent trip to Hawai’i and one very magical place is Kealakekua Bay near Captain Cook south of Kona. If you click on the image at left to see a larger version you will see that there are a lot of black lava stones along the water’s edge. [...]

This image was taken from the north coast of Kohala, which is the oldest section of the big island. The west side of Kohala is quite dry by tropical standards with between 10 and 30 inches of rainfall per year and the east side get well over 100 inches per year and is lush and [...]