climate
Accent headingShedding Stereotypes: Anyone Can Be a Scientist
Ever hear someone sigh and say, “I used to love science…”? It’s a common refrain
From Walkabout to Weblog: Reclaiming My Voice for Climate Action
March ’24 will mark the ten year anniversary of beginning my walk across America –…
What are Wicked Problems?
There are emergencies we as human beings have an easy time conceptualizing and organizing responses…
Carbon, Exponential Growth, and the Albedo Effect
Warming could cause the West Antarctic and Greenland to melt, destabilizing ice sheets. A situation…
What each degree of warming means
“We cannot go down the path of the dirty fuels without guaranteeing that the climate…
Beware of Climate Engineering Solutions
Is geoengineering is a viable path or is it is a dangerous and untested technology…
Toilets that Grow Gardens
Composting toilets, which do not require water, have been implemented in an office building in…
Curtailing Oil Consumption + Peak Oil
Even if everyone reduced their carbon footprint and oil consumption on an individual level, we…
City Rainwater Harvesting
Rainwater harvesting is the collection of rainwater for reuse. For watering plants, washing clothes, and…
Love Canal as a Short Story
How did a small suburban dream town in upstate New York turn into a poison…
Ecologized Thinking
How can we start seeing large problems that are abstract, long-term, predictable, and structural, in…
How We Can Build a Solarpunk Future Right Now + Solarpunk Superstars
A solarpunk future is a sustainable and equitable future where humans live in harmony with…
Great Tide Rising: The Moral Urgency of Climate Action
The choices we make today will shape the world our grandchildren inherit. Will we leave…
Actually Actionable Items
What are some things that you’ve done to make the world a better place? things…
Welcome to the Apple Chip Blog
Welcome! I apologize for being distant these past years. If you know me, this is…
The Apple Chip Blog & Content Chips
There are two types of chips. One is a food made from overstock apples that…
Why Chip?
Here are 20+ reasons, and growing, of why Apple Chips..














