Calling All Grandparents

In the Golden Desert, ancient engineering still saves water — clean, drinkable, water

Elise — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:49:47 +0000

Here's a plug for one of the old, old ways, as practiced in the Golden Desert of India, where they harvest water, and HAVE water, that is gathered by roofs and pavements and is stored (clean) in systems that are centuries old and still working. The locals ....

Dear Mr. President

Elise — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 05:53:33 +0000

Dear Mr. President: My enclosed book, Ideas Into Words, is a gift as well as a credential of sorts (it is the science-writing text used at MIT). I was for many years editor of the Johns Hopkins University Magazine. Much of what our magazine did was translate cutting-edge science for non-specialists, and 25 years of that work has left me with an unusual viewpoint of science and the natural world, one that is both insider and outsider. This letter offers a nugget from that understanding that I think may be helpful to you, faced as you are with huge decisions amid conflicting arguments.

What can we learn from the “preppers”?

Elise — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:44:56 +0000

For the grandparent generation, "prepping lite" makes sense. If we're all doing it, the attitude will be catching, and the world will be halfway to the bigger changes that may be needed.