Environment Fodder.
Climate Change.
A Bad Choice Out of Many Bad Choices. Climate change is a bad thing, but so is many of the alternatives promoted by industry like carbon sequestration and nuclear power.
A Planetary Emergency? Democracy need a crisis to act on global warming, but that may lead to bad solutions.
Cap and Trade or Performance Standards. There are pros and cons to both approaches, although their are real problems with Cap and Trade.
Carbon Sequestration. Why carbon sequestration is a dangerous and bad technology.
Climate Change. We must do something about climate change now.
Confronting Climate Change. What we must do address the threat of climate change.
Debate the Response to Climate Change. Deniers of climate change would be better shaping climate policy.
My 17,000 lb of Carbon Dioxide Footprint. All the road trips and explorations in my pickup this year has added up — big time.
Why I'm Going to the 350 Rally. We need a climate change bill to encourage innovation and reduce climate gases.
Endangered Species.
Firewood Moving Bans: Moral Support for Stoping EAB. Every scientist says it's not really possible to stop the spread of Emerald Ash Borer.
Futile War on Emerald Ash Borer. As much as we hope that the quaratine works, we know we probably will lose our ash trees.
Energy.
A 45 Second Ride. The oil leaking out of the Deepwater Drilling Rig could only power US' cars for 45 seconds.
Albany, 2058. What the future of the Capital City may be like after peak oil.
Energy Efficency vs Conservation. These are very different concepts that are frequently confused with each other.
Energy is Fossil Fuels. Almost all forms of energy comes from coal or oil.
Household Florescent Lighting. Why isn't everybody using compact florescents?
I Love Oil. Oil brings us the most wonderful experiences, even if it's horribly destructive.
Not Sure About Expanded Off-Shore Drilling. The issues are highly technical and involve a distant energy future that could change with technology.
Peak Resource Theories. Basic economics suggests that all items are ultimately rationed by price.
Psychology of Previous Investment. Why Kunstler's notion is a misnomer for the future of society.
The 13 and 1/3 Niagara Falls We Needed on Tuesday Afternoon. Considering the enormous scale of our electric consumption on these hot days of recent.
The Oil Price Problem. Nobody has had time to adjust to higher oil prices, and nobody knows the future.
What is a Watt? People don't often understand the true cost of consuming energy.
Why Peak Oil Won't Hurt Society. Our economy and human nature is indefinitely mailable within the limits of mankind.
Why Wind Energy. Some thoughts on the community benefits of wind power.
Incineration.
Incineration: Not a Good As You Might Think. Incineration in plagued by pollution, cost, and low energy production.
Landfills.
Albany's So-Called Landfill Crisis. Albany's plans for expanding in the Pine Bush and dumping trash in Coeymans are wrongheaded.
Comments on the Expansion of the Rapp Road Landfill. My comments for the public hearing on the landfill.
Free Market and Garbage. Markets controlling disposal of trash encourages poor disposal methods.
Garbage Land. Elizabeth Royte's book gives valuable insight on how solid waste disposal works in our country.
More Toxic Trash. Electronics and plastics make trash impossible to dispose of properly.
MSW Landfills in Eastern NY. A look at landfills in our region using Google Maps.
Westerlo's Waste. How one small town disposes of waste.
Why Landfills Should Be Privately Owned. Public landfill ownership is contrary to the public interest.
Nuclear Power.
Aren't You Glad. That this is not a nuclear emergency.
Recycling.
Albany's Lying About Recycling. The way Albany creates recycling numbers is a fraud.
No More Recycling For You. As recycling programs lose public interest they decline and end.
Wasting and Recycling. Recycling is good but not a real solution to our solid waste problem.
You Recycle: So? Recycling makes us feel virtuous, but our solid waste problem is much bigger.
Responsible Use.
Earth as a Pickup Truck. Mother earth is tough, but needs some care.
Ecological Virtues of Truck Camping. Thoughts on the ecological virtues of truck camping.
Grannis' DEC Says No. Too often the DEC regulates individuals without legislative approval.
Haul Out Your Unburnable Litter. It's important to make sure you pack up burnt out cans, and broken glass from firepits on public lands to keep things clean.
Shitty Toilet Paper. People need to be better at disposing of their human waste byproducts in the woods and not leaving presents for others.
The Environmental Ideal. Some basic principles of environmentalism.
Two Bags of Trash. How I sort and remove litter from the woods.
What Does It Mean To Be An Environmentalist? Exploring what it means to be an environmentalist on this Earth Day.
Why NYS Should 'Abandon' Some State Parks. Allowing underused parks to revert to state forest land makes a lot of sense.
State Lands.
No Such Thing As Wilderness in the Adirondacks. Despite what some of environmentalist folk term wilderness, most land has been used by man.
State Park Fees. They are too expensive, especially when they should be family friendly.
State Parks. State parks are crowded and expensive.
State Should Maintain Truck Trails. There has been a lack of investment in maintaining roads on state lands.
This State Land is Closed. Misuse of land is leading to more restrictons.
Why Does the DEC Hide Camping Areas? The state's haphazard policy towards primitive camping is unnecessarily confusing to causal users.
Sustainability.
Biggest Environmental Problems. From protecting open space to making it a nice place to live.
Earth Day 40. Some thoughts on the celebration of 40th Earth Day, and our successes and failures on cleaning up the environment.
New York City's Sustainability. Large cities are unsustainable, regardless of per-capita emissions.
Toilet Paper. We all use it. But it is really good for us or the environment?
Toxins.
A Walk at Love Canal. Pictures and thoughts from a walk at the infamous hazardous waste dump in Niagara Falls.
Ban Vinyl. It's simply too dangerous to be using this plastic.
Erin Brockovich at Ravena. Notes and photos from her recent forum expressing concerns about LaFarge.
Lois Marie Gibbs Comes to Rensselaer to Talk About PVC. She wants to see reform in insitutional purchasing pratices to reduce toxins.
Psychology of Pollution. Pollution both has an environmental and a psychological impact.
What is Pollution? Considering several definations of pollution based on a web search.
