Gasoline Prices — countries paying the highest and lowest per gallon
Like this sign, it seems that lately, gas prices do cost an arm and a leg. I thought that gas prices were trending down….yeah, right. Is it ever going to go down? This is what pricing is like this...
View ArticleAmerica’s Oil Boom
Related to my post yesterday (countries paying the highest and lowest gasoline per gallon), today’s topic on Tom Ashbrook’s On Point program — The North American Energy Revolution — looks at the...
View ArticleAdorable sea otter
If you need to change your mood today — or for fun and lightheartedness — take a look at this adorable sea otter video found on Monterey Bay wildlife photographer Efren B. Adalem’s website (Ooh! Look!...
View ArticleWordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Background
The WordPress Weekly Photo challenge is a tough one this week with Pick’s challenge to … share a picture that says In the Background. This is the photo I got —- though my intent was to take the photo...
View ArticleWordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says…Sea Shells From Around the...
From a roadside store off of California Hwy 1 on the central coast, the sign says… But actually, the shells came mostly from ONE part of the world…the Philippines The sign says “wind chime Pangasinan...
View ArticleBooks on bikes and pedalling to the people
We hear so much about the demise of newspapers and print media these days…which is why it was a delight to hear about the Seattle Public Library’s pilot program to bring books out to the community....
View ArticleAnd I thought we had algae problems…
Have you heard about the largest algal bloom in the world? It is in China’s Yellow Sea…and has turned sections of the Yellow Sea green. The Yellow Sea is located between the Korean Peninsula and...
View ArticleA raft of sea otters
“Is this natural?” asked the tourist from Israel as he stood next to me and my grandsons, amazed at what he was seeing. “I mean, are they wild–is this their natural habitat or some preserve?” he added....
View ArticleWordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV (and the very basic…placing...
This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge from Cheri Lucas Rowlands is: Challenge yourself to rethink your ideas about what subjects are appropriate, and then challenge yourself again to find an unusual...
View ArticleWhy the China communist party ban on extravagant banquets may save some...
Each year, millions of sharks are killed just for their fins, a practice called shark finning. The fins — the most profitable part of the shark — are removed and the shark is returned to the sea...
View ArticleFace of a…
We found this little creature in our backyard. Have you seen any in your area and any ideas on what it is? Hint….it is the size of your thumb, and they are sometimes referred to as earth’s planetary...
View ArticleWeekly WordPress Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patterns (and about that face...
The face in the prior post is of a tree frog indigenous to California. It was not in a tree, but by the spa, in a little crevice near the filter. The treefrog’s patterns also works for this week’s...
View ArticleHis religion?
The 56th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival is this weekend. I walked behind this man while on the way to the weekly downtown Monterey Farmers market. He was on his way there to play old jazz records along...
View ArticleBiggest and Smallest Shark
I’ve posted several articles about sharks on my blog — originally because of my irrational fear of sharks. When I think of sharks, I usually think of BIG sharks…like the 4,000 lb shark tagged in...
View ArticleCalifornia’s higher than normal temperatures, record driest year and now a...
Something is not quite right with our winter weather. Here in the Central Coast of California, most of us can’t remember the last time it rained, and are experiencing much warmer than normal...
View ArticleSome rain finally, but there is simply not enough to meet water demands in...
California is 2/3 into the wet season, the time of the year when we are supposed to get the most rain. Though we finally have rain — and rain is in the forecast for many parts of California this...
View ArticleZero Waste…from the city of San Francsico to Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Can you imagine a time when we recycle or compost everything in our household and send NOTHING to landfills or to incineration facilities? The recycling rate for Americans has increased to 34% compared...
View ArticleDrought and the 2014 official California shower
This is a somewhat funny graphic on showers during a drought — but it is actually a reality that we need to consider in light of California’s drought emergency. (Graphic source – Save our Water...
View ArticleAnother strange plane disappearance in Southeast Asia
The missing Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 239 passengers and crew has been on the news over the last few days. It is hard to believe that a huge commercial airplane — in this day and age, with...
View ArticleWhich of California’s 15 coastal counties are tsunami ready?
Despite the 5,000 mile distance between the California coastline and Japan, our coastal community was affected by the March 2011 tsunami (and subsequent disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power...
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