Welcome to The Naughty Environmentalist! After 15 years as a geoscientist, a few years reading Phil Plait's excellent Bad Astronomy blog, and a several more years of my better half accusing me of being a "bad environmentalist" for forgetting to recycle the cat food can lids, here I am, finally ready to write about it. As the blog's description says, while I'm passionate about our planet (and others!) and have been known to actually hug a tree or two, I'm as fallibly mortal as anyone else. I know how overwhelming it can be to keep track of which sustainably obtained fish is okay to eat this week, or to remember which new-fangled light bulbs do/don't contain Soylent Green ... so in this space, I hope to help myself and all of us negotiate that ever-winding green path.
I care deeply about our neighborhoods, our planet's neighborhood, our star's neighborhood -- and how Homo sapiens defines its place in those 'hoods through a technological society. So it won't be all-enviro all the time -- expect to see interesting trends in science and technology too. I'm also an avid outdoorsman, so it's likely that you'll see some commentary about hiking, camping, biking, and other outdoor fun.
First off: Happy Groundwater Awareness Week, coming up March 9th - 15th! Given the occasion and the drought situation in California, expect to see a few posts about water resources coming soon. I've retweeted several interesting stories on the subject over on my Twitter account, EcoKade. People are so often blasé about water supply, so I like that ThinkProgress has a piece up that hits so many of us where it hurts -- "California's drought is coming for your beer." Grist also has a slightly more serious take on California's agricultural water use by Alex Park and Julia Lurie, both fellows at the excellent Mother Jones. Take a gander, and feel free to discuss in the comments!
Secondly: if you didn't watch Cosmos last night, you should try to catch it tonight on NatGeo, or stream it from the Fox site. The show was lovely, but even if it hadn't been, I'd still give the shout out; just like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Carl Sagan's ability to communicate the wonder and majesty of science changed my life and set me on the path to becoming an earth and planetary scientist (with a little help from Gene Roddenberry). In many ways, I'm here with you blogging because of Carl. So in that spirit: "Come with me!"
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