(Previously published in the The People’s Vanguard of Davis on 8/25/2015) “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left”. This quote is often attributed to Albert Einstein and while there is scant evidence that he did indeed say this, there is, according to…
Category: CLimate Change
A Day Without a Cup of Coffee
Wild Arabica, the very first seed, smuggled out of Arabia by Baba Budan during his pilgrimage to Mecca around 1600 traveled on to Paris and Martinique .The descendants of this seedling of coffee may just have a final resting place 810 miles from the North Pole, on the Norwegian Island of Spitsbergen. Banked into a…
Say it Out Loud
Aldo Leopold said, “We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” And he was right.
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