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Why can't we continue to work remotely?

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  As horrible as the Covid pandemic was, there were several valuable lessons learned before the vaccine was produced. One of those lessons pertains to the environment. Because of quarantines, every person that possibly could worked remotely from home, and people shopped online, ordered online from restaurants, streamed entertainment. Environmentally, this was an amazing boon in many ways: traffic jams were non-existent, there were no rush hours, and most importantly, smog cleared. Carbon emission levels dropped to record lows.   And that should mean that employers and employees should figure out together how to continue to work remotely as much as possible. I know there are economic impacts of working remotely, but surely, to help remove a global threat of pollution and its deadly impact on our planet, some compromises could be made. Perhaps only commute to work one day a week. Imagine the energy and fuel that could be saved if buildings full of electric lights, computers, prin
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Got a great book for Earth Day reading!

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The sun is setting on Earth Day as I write this.  I worked on Green Geezer memes all day, including one promoting Wild Lives by Lori Robinson and Janie Chodosh .  It's an excellent, informative book, sort of a mini-who's who of the wildlife conservation and preservation world.  Even the accolades on the back cover are by some of the most esteemed scientists and activists in the world, like Jane Goodall (primatologist and founder of the Jane Goodall Foundation), Vanessa Woods (Author of Bonobo Handshake) , Marc Bekoff, (author of The Animal's Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age) to name a few. Between those book covers is amazing stuff. There is a foreword by Carl Safina , and then twenty chapters of pure gold from Thomas Lovejoy, who coined "biological diversity", Beverly and Dereck Joubert , scientists and advocates for African Wildlife and Wilderness, Anne Dagg , giraffe advocate, Yossi Leshem , bird advocate and expert, Laurie Mark
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LIVING GREEN: SUPERFUND SITES - BY BLAZE MCROB

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   Painting by Vi Huntley-Franck I was digging up material for another article I was going to post today, but I stumbled across some troubling facts about another issue. A very serious one that needs to be addressed. That happens to be Superfund sites. These are, quite simply, any lands within the USA that are contaminated by various hazardous wastes. In 1980, the 96th Congress established the Superfund program to clean them up. Many of you are aware that these sites exist. Probably, some of you thought the necessary cleaning of these sites was either already completed or was being worked on. New Jersey, a state I called home for many years has more of these sites than any other state in the nation. It has 114 sites. The owners of the worst of the worse sources of pollution commonly had practices of dumping toxic chemicals on the ground, in rivers, in the ocean, out in the open. And more. Much more. Abandoned warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and processing plants utilized landfill
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Humans are in for it.

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Deferring to the fact that the attention span of many Americans had dwindled to the length of a soundbite, (or in some cases dog whistle) I have begun sharing factoids, quotes, adages, and pleas about and for the environment and wildlife in memes I've created. I find that something really short – headline length – gets more attention and reaction than essays, no matter how concise and brief those essays are.  I've wanted to zero in on the most important issues on the planet – environment and wildlife – which, like most indigenous cultures, humans have cancelled out. People that deny these problems, and that we are sleepwalking into our own extinction, and taking the rest of nature with us, are the ones that can't see past their own selfish indulgence or lust for convenience, comfort, and out-of-control consumerism to consider the needs of other beings on this planet – or even vast numbers of their own species – for mere survival. I'm writing a horror novel about ani
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Things I Choose to No Longer Use

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Hi Friends, Some of these things I gave up long ago when I first learned about pollution and that forests, and the living beings who lived in them were becoming endangered, some going extinct because of human sprawl and hogging of resources that meant destruction for all living creatures – even ourselves. I started making some adjustments, and I'm continuing to make them. ·          I never bought into the propaganda that I needed to be a good little consumer. I never threw away last year's clothing because it was 'not the thing' anymore. Mainly because I never bought fads. Never bought any piece of clothing for the name on the label. Same with technology and machinery. Buy a new car every other year? Why? For that 'new car smell'? Basically that 'new car smell' is toxic fumes from tanning of leather, or plastic parts of the car. New phone every couple of years? No way. I am an old proponent of the adage 'if it ain't broke don't fix (or r
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LIVING GREEN: WHO ARE THE CLIMATE DENIERS? - BY BLAZE MCROB

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  Painting by Vi Huntley-Franck In addition to my articles about pollution, I’ll be adding many Climate Change facts to my Living Green series. Everything is interconnected. One affects the other. I’ll be showing that as I move along. Approximately 97% of scientific consensus on climate change agrees that humans are responsible for the global warming going on today. Who are the other 3%? It is possible for some who believe in human-made global warming to fail to come to terms with it. Many use their denial for their own purposes or for those they work for. Yes, I’m talking about those with industrial, ideological, or political interests. Supposedly scientific studies arrive on the scene showing that people have been duped by the majority of scientists in the field. These propaganda machines are meant to sow confusion within the populace. After all, who wants to believe that if we don’t do what we can to stop global warming that we’ll have to learn the lost art of treading water forever
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LIVING GREEN: EVERY DAY SHOULD BE EARTH DAY - BY BLAZE MCROB

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  You'll be seeing a lot of the painting above. It was painted by my good friend Vi Huntley-Franck. She was kind enough to send me the original painting for a wedding present when I married Terri DelCampo-Nelson. It sits in a prominent area of my house where I can look at it every day. It shows a happy looking me with a wolf in a majestic mountain setting. I'm starting up a long series of articles about the environment, climate change, and everything related to them. Each article will be of a specific nature. Whenever you see the painting, you'll know what the article is about. Thank you Vi for allowing me to use your painting. Even though I have advanced degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Bio-Chem, and Physics, I am going to present the articles in laypersons' terminology. I want to approach everything from a common-sense view. I love the great outdoors, and I want to be surrounded by an environment that is not polluted. I live on this spinning rock. It is my home. One thi
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