It is not often we step outside the cage that society has constructed for us; “do this, don’t do that, I want you to, I need you to, You must…” – the list goes on and we have forgotten what it is like to commune with the ethereal beauty inherent in the natural word all around us.
Nature sings its chorus of beauty ceaselessly, but we have forgotten how to stop and listen.
Yesterday, I stepped outside of the cage, and this is what I found.
Professor Barry Brook over at has a couple of great posts (and simple and easy to understand) on why a temperature rise of 2-6 deg C will be not-so-good for us all.
News of Switzerland and Italy changing their borders due to melting glaciers. Scientists are shocked over the rate of Siberian permafrost melt.
But at the end of this arid late-summer afternoon, Schendler is feeling anything but triumphant. He pulls a company sedan to the side of a dirt road and turns off the motor. “Who are we kidding?” he says, finally. Despite all his exertions, the resort’s greenhouse-gas emissions continue to creep up year after year. More vacationers mean larger lodgings burning more power. Warmer winters require tons of additional artificial snow, another energy drain. “I’ve succeeded in doing a lot of sexy projects yet utterly failed in what I set out to do,” Schendler says. “How do you really green your company? It’s almost f—— impossible.
It’s not often I get angry and despairing. I try and remain optimistic (try). But after reading this article I got angry(er).
This planet has some amazing things that are worth saving, and some terrible practices we need to stop (like shark finning, which…
Kinda makes me being worried about being able to go snowboarding a little redundant at that point. When people are directly affected and lose their livelihoods and land, skiing and snowboarding kind of seems unimportant all of a sudden.
Welcome to the final part in our 7-part series showing how to make a snowboard.
In step 14 we completely finish the board.
Thanks for checking back, we really appreciate it.So, it looks like Burton is laying off jobs and cutting salaries. It’s times like these I am glad I don’t have to worry about team and marketing budgets and all the other stuff they must have to deal with (dealing with Jake Burton’s bank balance though, [...]
The woman says she checks every couple of hours to make sure her husband is not lying in his orchard with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his head. When the meeting is over, the counselor adds their names to a suicide watch list.
