Category Archives: Environment
Rewilding South Georgia
There’s something about being island-born that calls you back, even if delivered there by accident (instead of London). Gazing from a mainland shore, if I see an island I feel drawn to visit and savor the mystery. It is Avalon … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Environment
Tagged Ernest Shackleton, Grytviken, Rewilding, South Georgia, Whales
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Aquamation-Graveyard talk
Watching sparks fly in the night around a scout camp fire, we often burst into song. One of our favorites was the graveyard song, called the hearse song in other versions. One of the stanzas goes: The worms crawled in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alkaline hydrolysis, Aquamation, Cremation for funerals, Desmond tutu
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Beauty of the Night Sky
Lord Byron’s first meeting with Lady Wilmot Horton at a fashionable party inspired him to compose the poem: She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies Of all that’s best of dark and bright Meet … Continue reading
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Tagged Dark nights, light pollution, Lord Byron, PingAn Tower, Shenzhen
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Tribute to Sunderlal Bahuguna
Obituary of Sunderlal Bahuguna Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Memoir, Nature
Tagged Beatles Ashram, Bishnoi people, Chipko movement, Mahatma Gandhi, Sunderlal Bahuguna, Tehri Dam, Uttarakhand
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Phosphatemia—How Green is your Water?
Phosphate is added to municipal drinking water to avoid lead Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Health
Tagged drinking water, eutrophication, Flint Michigan, Phosphate, Sherlock Holmes
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 