Low snow year (not counting October)

by | Jan 3, 2012 | Get This

On Mount Washington, New Hampshire: October 2011 Average monthly snowfall (1971-2000): 14 inches Actual snowfall in October: 20.7 November 2011 Average monthly snowfall: 40.4 Actual snowfall: 18.6 December 2011: Average monthly snowfall: 50 inches. Total snowfall in...
What to do with the card I sent

What to do with the card I sent

by | Dec 27, 2011 | Get This

Asylum Reservoir Number 2, Mattabesett Trail, part of the New England Trail, Middletown, Connecticut All the green gurus advise against sending holiday cards, but I sent two different ones out this season. I think that paper correspondence remains one of the great...

Emergency Preparedness, a 9/11 Remembrance

by | Dec 14, 2011 | Magazine Articles

Appalachia journal, Winter/Spring 2012 From the time Elizabeth and Annie were little, my husband Nat and I took them into the mountains, from Tennessee to New Hampshire. They trudged miles carrying loads. We taught them how to light a stove, collect water, wait out...

Car, Plane, or Train?

by | Dec 14, 2011 | Get This

During this high-travel pre-holiday season, consider some surprising findings on the carbon footprint of traveling, courtesy of Matthew McDermott of Planet Green/TLC: * For long distances, buses emit less carbon than trains. Trains still are pretty good choices, and...
Fears for America’s Parched Southwest

Fears for America’s Parched Southwest

by | Nov 15, 2011 | Magazine Articles

Nature Climate Change Volume 1 Issue 8 Nature Climate Change, November 2011 The amazing giant saguaro cactus of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States does what its human neighbours cannot. It survives on 8 to 15 inches of annual rainfall. The...