Environment

Tumble-drying polyester and nylon frays the fabric and sheds microplastic fibers straight into the air through the dryer vent. Those fibers do not stay by the vent. They drift into the community, settle as dust, and end up in the water and the air we all breathe.

CO2 emissions rose by the largest amount in human recorded history last year. Despite rhetoric to appease the concerns of environmental advocates, little has actually been done on a global aggregate level to slow greenhouse gas emission growth. Technology, collaboration, and innovation remain our best path to solving it.

With its Arrowhead permit long expired, Nestle has been exploiting San Bernadino Forest water supply for nearly three decades, circumventing environmental review and scientific analysis on effects of bottling millions of gallons of water annually.

Our primary dependance on power generated from fossil fuels and our mass consumption of livestock mammals, has caused the greenhouse gas levels to jump up like a hockey stick and throw the climate out of balance. These human activities threw out the natural balance our planet had built over the last million years. The effects of higher atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane are being felt globally. All of mankind is experiencing the damages humans cause by making these changes. Whether it’s sea level rise, drought, heat waves, flash flooding, wildfires, more intense storms and weather patterns, or even cold snaps we are all denizens of Earth’s climate.

Earlier in January 2015, I tried to push back on a popular pastime, burning wood at the beach. The post contains a letter I submitted to the city council addressing my concern backed by science and health concerns.