The Lovely Shower. No doubt our kids describe us as a bit nutty about environmental care. But long showers are nice. And our on-demand water heater never stops providing the glorious warm wash our teenagers adore. So we spend an embarrassing amount of time chiding our children to take shorter showers. It would all be easier if our reasons were a bit more concrete... … [Read more...]
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Earlier this month. a huge section of ground in Mexico collapsed, creating a giant crack 3300 feet long. cutting across a highway and rendering it impassable. The collapse was apparently caused by human groundwater extraction. A Professor of Geology at the University of Sonora was sanguine, though, attributing the collapse to "the normal manifestations of the destabilization of … [Read more...]