I know. If I want to be really kind to the environment I should be using a manual push mower. But I’ve never progressed that far in my carbon footprint scheme. I’m still using an electric mower. I consider it vastly gentler on the planet than the two-stroke gasoline monsters that power most mowers and […]
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The Chesapeake Bay used to be one of the greatest food sources in the world. It teemed with fish, crabs and oysters. But the latest “State of the Bay” report from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) says conditions on the bay are getting worse, not better. This year the foundation gave the bay’s health a […]
The Washington Post yesterday confirmed what we’ve all been hearing: Greenland is melting. According to the Post’s front-page account, that could eventually mean people in Manhattan will someday be treading water. Or that we here overlooking the Nation’s Capitol might someday be sitting on waterfront property. But for now, the people in Greenland itself are […]
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