The lake effect....
It seems as though summer was only a couple of weeks ago, but this past week saw the first big storm of the winter. Buffalo, New York,...
Rescue Me!
Unlike the US and UK coastal guardians, Canada's Coast Guard is neither law enforcement nor military. Responsible for the longest...
The golden flush...
A well-run civic water system has two efficient parts: water treatment to ensure the delivery of safe, clean drinking water, and sewage...
Beeware
Walking on the Leslie Street spit in Toronto, I was thrilled to see this golden rod plant covered with bees. The world's apian population...
Two bells
On 28 October, 2012, the tall ship Bounty went down off Cape Hatteras during Hurricane Sandy. Her captain, Robin Walbridge, has never...
Sun storm
The sun is a living, breathing, moving star whose magnetic field affects life on earth in ways we don't always appreciate. Its activity...
Feeding the monster
"Climate change" has replaced "global warming" as the description of choice for the biggest environmental problem facing the earth, but...
The rise and fall of sustainable development
If anything will allow our planet to survive the 21st century, it will be sustainable development. This concept, based on three...
Photo-synthesis
I'm sorry for the delay in blog posts lately. It was partly due to technical difficulties with the website, and partly due to the world's...
The ripple effect
In the late nineteenth century, Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir john A Macdonald, and his government passed legislation protecting our...
