Think Globally, Act Locally

The butterfly counts not the months but the moments and has enough time - Rabindranath Tagore

"Sunset, Nevada"

The sheer gall of mining industries. They know exactly what kind of destruction they do all over. Yes, we need minerals, materials. But we go about it thinking "we" know better and then....this is just the beginning of the ocean mining disaster we are about to face all over the World. Technology doesn't have to be used just because "we can".

A Deep-Sea Mining Operation Is Underway, and Almost No One Knows about It The owners of a controversial mining license have begun extracting valuable metals from the ocean floor

Everyday is Earth Day

Every day is Earth Day.

Have a honey of a day!

Tide pool view, San Mateo, CA. What I love about this is seeing a sea star in the upper right that had been dining on mussels. Sea stars wasting disease has almost wiped them out in this region of the Pacific. So this was a pleasant surprise, seeing a healthy one.

Please check out Blue Sky, where I post all the time. It is good, you'll get used to it. I will be leaving FB,

Ken Shaw (@wiredrabbit.bsky.social) Living in San Francisco and Livingstone, Zambia. RPCV (Returned Peace Corps Volunteer - 2017), just movin' along. Actor, acting teacher, science educator, photographer, movie maker, environmental planning. Perspective is everything. Always grateful.

Funky Earth....

This was predicted back in the 70s. But those "dumb computer models" couldn't possibly be correct! Yes, Exxon and Chevron and all the oil companies got together to work on the issue. They realized the best thing they could do about climate change...is deny it exists.

Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites - Nature Geoscience Analyses of satellite observations from 1986 to 2021 suggest that the Antarctic Peninsula is greening at an accelerated rate.

A very interesting article.....

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This is near where I live in Livingstone, Zambia. This is due to the long lasting severe drought that has hit southern and eastern Africa. More of this will happen, humans vs wildlife for water.....

PHOTOS: Take a ride with the Elephant Response Team. And be careful! Their job is to keep the peace amid a worsening and at times deadly conflict between humans and the world's largest land animal in the town of Livingstone, Zambia.