Part one included the Torrey Canyon disaster, harmony with nature and protections for mako sharks, with hints that they are all connected by something specific, something important. Something to do with rights and liability… You…
The Future is Personal
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This story is about everywhere and everything. But we’ll begin in 1967. And we’ll begin with a shipwreck. Picture a disaster at sea and its easy to imagine dramatic conditions playing a part. The loss…
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We found a solution to our greatest fear and now we can’t be stopped. Our brains, hard-wired to live with scarcity allowed us to discover tools and through their use we discovered scarcity’s opposite– abundance. The…
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Everyone knows what the third wish is for. A magical apparition appears from a bottle and grants you three wishes. An exciting opportunity, but daunting at the same time. The thrill of having wishes fulfilled…
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Do you think of yourself as an ecological person? Whatever the answer, it is becoming an increasingly important question. If your answer is “no”, I’m going to politely suggest that you don’t have a choice.…
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Recently, the Columbia University Journalism faculty hosted a one day conference focusing on the problems of and potential solutions for reporting on ecological issues. In it, author and commentator Naomi Klein said that the reason…
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Cross the border at Tijuana and Mexico hits you like a burst of distilled chaos. Ensenada has all the features of a lively fishing port anywhere, with a big dash of Mexican fun thrown-in. Head…
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I’ve been suspended in open water that is crystal clear. The kind of ocean environment that pixelates the collective idea of the perfect underwater scene on Pinterest and Instagram. This was nearly it, but not…