I’m loving many of the recipes from Anna Jones’s book One Pot, Pan, Planet. I primarily eat plant-based but get in a rut preparing the same recipes over and over.
If you’re looking to add more plant-based and sustainable dishes to your diet, this book would be a good introduction.

Went to the beach north of Bodega Bay this morning. It was lovely except for the numerous pieces of plastic everywhere. I’m going to redouble efforts to minimize plastic on my end but industry needs to do a major reinvention of packaging as well.

Two points where we might have taken a different path on climate. First arrow was when President Carter installed solar panels on the White House but lost the election to Reagan. Second arrow was the electoral defeat of Al Gore by George W. Bush, thanks in part to Nader’s futile run.
Would this graph look the same had those two climate visionaries won?
Vote like our future depends on it. It does.

I’m grateful for 99 years of this amazing, compassionate man’s life. Happy birthday Jimmy Carter.

On this morning, 22 years ago, I was at a meeting in Trenton and we were interrupted by someone telling us a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. We all rushed down the hall to gather around a TV, thinking it must have been an accident. Then the second plane hit. The horror that anyone would do such a thing, and that so many lives would be destroyed has never left me. My heart goes out to all who lost loved ones that day.
#9/11

My sister and I were just reading about my father, who worked for DOE in the 1970s and early 80s. He mentioned possibly being transferred to Oklahoma to work on solar, wind, and geothermal in 1982. That was Prez Carter’s influence, a program likely derailed by Reagan. So much with Carter’s defeat by Reagan.

Rachel Carson’s words from seventy years ago still resonate mightily.

It’s really time to move on from Flintstone, a.k.a. fossil fuel, technology.
More than 2/3 of fossil fuel energy is lost as heat. That’s about the same ratio of efficiency of heat transfer as induction (90%) to gas stoves (40%). (Sweeney, M. et al. 2014. “Induction cooking technology design and assessment.” EPRI.)
(Ritchie post via @globalecoguy)

It’s so easy to ship without plastic. Hello, Amazon and so many others?

Forests in urban spaces are a high priority for coping with excessive heat caused by the #ClimateCrisis. Adding some fruit trees would be a bonus. #urbangarden