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

Hi Friends, Whenever I make a suggestion on how to Green Up, I make sure I'm practicing what I'm preaching, if at all possible. So, this week, I've incorporated a new routine into my home for Blaze and me. I put a dish pan in the kitchen sink, and a steel bowl in the bathroom vanity, to collect gray water instead of allowing it to go down the drain. I dump them in 5-gallon buckets I keep in the bathroom. Blaze and I can't lift them, so we use a gallon pitcher to dip out the gray water to flush the toilet. It has to be at least a gallon of water, and you have to pour it fast, all at once for it to force the waste down the drain. I've never understood why toilets are hooked up to clean drinking water. Several years ago, I visited friends in Belgium, and as they were showing me around their house they showed me the bathroom, warning that the toilet might startle me. In Belgium, toilets are not hooked up to clean drinking water lines, but pull untreated water dire

 Hi Friends!  So far, I've been penning the articles for this blog, but I've invited Blaze McRob to post his Living Green articles here as well. He's been posting them on the Blazing Owl Press blog, and we both agreed that Green Geezers would be a much better home for them.   Blaze is a much more prolific writer than I am, so the Green Geezers material will no doubt expand exponentially within the next few weeks, and continue to bring you news, information, and insight about all environmental topics.   Welcome aboard, Blaze McRob! Let's shine a green light on it together!  

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  Crap, they found me . She could feel them…even with her mouth loaded with the sinuous flesh of the sambar deer clenched in her mighty jaws, she could scent them. Furlesses. She knew they were close, but fortunately she was between them and her cubs, moving ever closer to her hungry babies. Crap, they're sitting in a Furlessmobile , she thought, not wanting to waste precious time on a Furless confrontation . This nice fresh meat will rot on the bone and my babies will starve if Furlesses get nervous and I get pissy with them. They always carry boom sticks – like I'm more of a threat to them then they are to me. Maybe if I just keep moving forward like I don't care about them…like this deer is the only thing I'm about – getting this deer to my babies. And it worked. The woman and the man in the car were none other than China-born Grace Ge Gabriel and Ashok Kumar from India – both conservationists and wildlife advocates – advocates of wildlife everywhere. Gabriel h

Hi Friends, In this series of articles, I plan to periodically provide you with contact information for various individuals, groups, and organizations concerned with environmental and wildlife causes. These particular blogs will be ongoing and cumulative, so if you're interested, you can build a directory of your own as I build mine.   I do have more in-depth profiles of environmentalist individuals and organizations coming up soon, but these "Directory Dumps" will provide a slew of information all at once to be detailed later. I hope you find these blogs helpful in locating information you need to become involved in environmental causes. There's a lot riding on our involvement in these causes – including avoiding our own (human) extinction.   Hopefully with this information all in one place you can decide on some organizations to donate to, or, like I do, familiarize yourself with their activities and take part in some way – either by showing up at function