Feb 15 2008
OK folks, I am losing my sense of humor here. I can’t even come up with good metaphors or puns or similies or anything.
San Quentin’s Raw Sewage Leaks Into SF Bay
SAN QUENTIN (CBS 5 / AP / BCN) ? Authorities in Marin County tested the waters in San Francisco Bay Thursday after an estimated 1,500 [...]
Feb 04 2008
I am absolutely sick to death of the rain.
This is, natch, not a unique sentiment around here this year. Given half an opportunity, pretty much everyone I know will hold forth about how they’re really, really done (really done) with the wetness. I hear from my landlubber pals that the ants are invading in [...]
Feb 02 2008
I am beginning to believe that it might actually be more dangerous to live on the water.
My pal F just sent me this.
We’re still seeing tar balls and slicks from the Nov. 7 oil spill. And the marine life has definitely not recovered. And now, sickened by that, they’re having to contend with 2.7 million [...]
Dec 20 2007
Caught this on the Google Earth blog:
The second presentation I wanted to mention was by the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, Univ. of New Hampshire (summary here). Working in conjunction with NOAA, they have developed an excellent visualization in Google Earth to illustrate where shipping traffic has been accidentally killing right whales (these whales [...]
Dec 18 2007
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0712/gallery.101_dumbest.fortune/11.html
“Fortune chose the absolutely dumbest of the dumb that the gods of fate and humor delivered into our laps - and yours - this past year.” And Captain John J. Cota’s unbelievably minimalistic “I touched the delta tower” made it to number 11. Way to go.
Course, me ‘n mine are still raging about the [...]
Dec 14 2007
The last two mornings have had the most spectacular sunrises.
This morning, the entire sky was puffy and pink and purple and red, stretching across the entire eastern horizon, with colors deepening across half an hour of my time. So spectacular that I didn’t even want to photograph it, because these things never come out like [...]
Nov 14 2007
Yesterday, I happily fed the gulls.
I mentioned in a previous post that the bird life has been decimated by this spill; I don’t care what numbers are being officially reported; the marina seems barren and deserted since the spill. Usually, I am awakened in the morning by the calls of the gulls, and I haven’t [...]
Nov 12 2007
The oil-coated animals are beginning to wash up now.
Fish and Game is out walking the breakwater, talking about all the supplies they’ll need … for tomorrow… to collect the bodies.
I am sitting here thinking of Rachel Carson, who thought that Silent Spring would be brought by pesticides. Here on the Bay, it’s brought by stupid [...]
Nov 10 2007
Thank you for your support in response to Wednesday’s oil spill. We appreciate the outpouring of offers to help and we’ll keep you updated on opportunities as they arise. It’ll take all of us working together to clean up our precious Bay after this oil spill’s destructive wake.While we are heartened by the overwhelming interest [...]
Nov 08 2007
Here’s a press release from NOAA, about everything that’s going on with the oil spill from their perspective.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/20071108_oilspill.htmlÂ
And another piece from Reuters,
http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKN0822954120071108Â
And lastly, what you can do to help, from BayKeeper:
http://www.baykeeper.org/Â
Nov 08 2007
It is a great day to not go sailing.
The fog yesterday was really thick. I couldn’t even really see the marina wall, which is saying something, because we’re berthed right next to the thing. And then my pal Jonathan sent me this.
If you look on a map, this is really, really close to us. And [...]
Oct 18 2007
Seen the trailer for Sharkwater yet?
If you’re not equally horrified and intrigued, you should be. A screening will be happening in San Francisco at the Roxie on Tuesday, October 30. If you’re not local, or can’t make the show, it’ll be nationwide on Nov. 2.
Go see it. Drag someone with you who doesn’t want to [...]
Oct 15 2007
Friends, as part of blog action day, I’m blogging about the environment.
This is, if you know me, laughable. I have a graduate degree in treehugger. I’m totally evergreeen, yeah?
I had no freaking idea what awareness of my footprint truly was until I moved onboard a boat. Here are a few highlights:
Water consumption. Here, [...]