I live inside a national park now, having taken a seasonal job. Photo labs are few and far between. If you know of a place I could get my 35mm and 120 format film developed by mail, please contact me via the contact box on the right side of the page. I am processing [...]
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I’ve begun processing digital work from the PhotoBike project. Working with the photos rekindles the excitement I felt while on the road taking them. I’ll be posting samples from time to time over the coming weeks, including scanned copies of film once it gets developed. Kickstarter Backers: Watch your e-mail for an update regarding how [...]
UPDATE: New photo gallery of the past five days. Two days ago marked the 2,000 mile point of PhotoBike. The day ended at some hot springs near Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in New Mexico’s Gila Mountains. Getting there required crossing the continental divide and a very tall mountain pass later in the day. Here’s [...]
New gallery of photos from the past several days off the bike here in New Mexico. Click on the photo to see more.
After 5 weeks on the road, I’m taking several days off the bike. Going off the ACA Southern Tier route to climb into the Guadalupe Mountains, visit Carlsbad Caverns, then struggle into headwinds up the back slope of a mountain range to Cloudcroft, NM, left me weary. I rolled into Alamogordo after descending 4,000 feet [...]
See some pictures from March 25, 2011 in the photo gallery, or click on the picture below.
As the sun rose I ate breakfast in one National Park and headed to another, underground See more of the day’s photos in the gallery.
Spent a windy, windy night in the Pine Springs campground. Several other campers’ tent poles snapped.
Tomorrow it’s either continue on the ACA’s Southern Tier route to El Paso or strike out north toward Guadalupe Mountains and Carlsbad Caverns National Park. If the latter, there won’t be posts for a while. I left the Davis Mountains today:
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Thanks to the US Forest Service developing i-Tree—software that puts a value on the ecosystem services provided by trees in urban areas—regulators are one step closer to operating under a pure cost-benefit approach to management. Cost-benefit management aims to simplify the decision making process and base it entirely on quantifiable—read “justifiable” if you’re a government [...]
The global dominance of US corporations in the post-WWII 20th century relied on the support of the US government, especially in trade and military policy. China is now using the same model to ensure the 21st-century global dominance of its own corporations. Take wind power, for example. With their government-bestowed blessings, Chinese companies have flourished [...]
Last weekend, I and two friends set out from New Orleans on what was my first ever bicycle tour, a 58-miler to Buccaneer State Park in Mississippi for an overnight camp and next-day return. I just finished entering the route into Google Maps and generated an elevation profile. Once I stopped laughing, I decided it [...]
I’m experimenting with the Goodreads platform, a social network built around books. Check it out. It will automatically post my book updates here on ninasbuick. We’ll see how it goes.
Worldwatch has a nice post on the recent German American Energy Forum in DC that also provides three concrete steps to a renewable energy paradigm. The general conclusions of the conference were threefold: First, we need storage capacity for energy—with electric vehicles playing a big role. Second, it’s all about grids—“smart” and interconnected grids that [...]
When it comes to ecological concerns, it is especially advantageous if they converge with military interests. —Joachim Radkau, “Nature and Power“, p.119 Hearts and minds Radkau refers to the most important reason for the city of Venice preserving its lagoon through its history. Advocates for preserving the lagoon called it “the wall of the city”, [...]
Path dependence—the idea that what we did yesterday influences how difficult certain behavior will be today and tomorrow—has powerful implications for developing energy alternatives to fossil fuels. For example, we’ve been talking about cars that don’t run on gasoline for a while now but have not seriously committed to developing and using them. As a [...]
There has been far too much emphasis on preventing global warming from happening even though it is currently happening. Ignored in our futile zeal to prevent the impacts is any reasonable approach to dealing with the impacts. Global warming is only a problem because it will alter the earth faster than humans will be able [...]
The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium recently published its data on the Gulf of Mexico dead zone, an area of water with oxygen levels too low to support much marine life. This dead zone forms largely because agricultural fertilizers used in the interior of the US runs off into the Mississippi River, which then transports these [...]
Should hydro power be considered a renewable energy? It certainly comes from water, which we tend to think of as renewable. But there is only so much freshwater available to use in hydro production, and a lot of people need and want that water for other purposes. So even if hydro is considered renewable, should [...]
We’re solidly in the middle of the American China scare when all of the United States’s problems somehow lead back to China, whether it’s the housing crisis or energy consumption. We’re going to stick with the energy consumption theme from the last post and talk about how energy and fear of losing global supremacy contribute [...]
A New York Times article describing strategies energy utilities use to deal with fluctuating production schedules of wind power inspired me to write about the assortment of energy generation technologies currently in use and how future energy production will work. The article focuses on wind farms, so let’s address those first. The majority of wind [...]
Approximately 8 minute video explaining the three reasons the impacts of the oil spill could be much worse than Katrina. The direct damage was done by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in a matter of days. The oil spill has already been causing damage for three months and will linger for years causing more damage. The [...]
We’ve all seen plenty of pictures and video of the ongoing ecological damage caused by BP’s oil drilling disaster, but the economic impact, the livelihoods destroyed, communities disrupted, traditions abandoned will only slowly rise to the surface. So I’m going to be posting periodically–goal of at least once a week–on the economic impact of this [...]
If you’re at all worried about carbon emissions, there’s not much worse you can do than get in an airplane. A couple of news stories from today got me thinking about the future of air travel. The New York Times reports on a solar-powered airplane that flew for more than a day and reached an [...]
Those who know me know that I don’t often say ‘Big Government’ with derision. I was briefly in the Peace Corps, for goodness sake. I support regulation when it makes sense and is needed. But inconsistencies in regulation that more reflect the ability of particular interest groups and professions to win exclusions for themselves from [...]
The stupidity of Kentucky Tea Party support for Rand Paul in the Republican primary is…is… AH I’M HAVING A LEWIS BLACKOUT! A news article: Tea Party Supporter Wins Kentucky Republican Primary In Kentucky, longtime Congressman Ron Paul’s son, ophthalmologist Rand Paul, was declared the winner of the Republican Senate primary by The Associated Press shortly [...]
I’ve been reading Joachim Radkau’s book Nature and Power and thinking about BP’s oil disaster in the Gulf a lot recently, especially in light of Radkau’s idea that …as the management of environmental problems moves to higher levels of the state, it becomes increasingly subject to the laws of power and the preservation of authority. [...]
Saw this comment on a Nola.com story and it got me thinking about how these players are all related in this thing: During a press conference today held by Landry, Suttles, and Salazar, an ABC News reporter Matt Gutman asked a question by phone to Doug Suttles, BP’s Chief Operating Officer, saying, “Mr. Suttles, I [...]
One reason that gas costs more in the summer is that it actually costs more for refineries to make summer gasoline than it does to make winter gasoline. Why is that? What’s the difference? Good questions. The first will take a bit of explaining. The short answer to the second is that if there wasn’t [...]
Some British Petroleum stuff as the oil continues flowing into the Gulf o Mexico. BP 2009 Profit: $14,000,000,000 BP 2009 $ Spent on Lobbying in DC: $15,900,000 (new record for BP) Days 2009 Congress was in session: 159 BP’s lobbying budget per day Congress was in session: $105,000 Per hour: $4,166 % of BP’s 2009 [...]
Following graphs captured from the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources’s Energy Facts Annual 2009. The full report details the state of all energy industry sectors. The following graphs provide a cursory overview of the oil sector in Louisiana. When considering expanding offshore oil drilling, it appears the only benefit Louisana would receive is increased inputs [...]
I hitched a ride with some Environment America folks down to Venice, LA in Plaquemines Parish today to try to catch a glimpse of POTUS—President of the United States, and along with SCOTUS one of my favorite civic acronyms—as he visited the Gulf Coast in response to the now week-old oil leak. We arrived several [...]
One danger of claiming, “I am (a) ______________,” or, “I believe in ___________,” or, “I agree with ___________,” is that we humans possess a remarkable ability and constant tendency to criticize, and representing oneself by filling one of the preceding blanks with a word meaningful to more than just the speaker exposes oneself to criticism [...]
Greenwashing: the use of the language of sustainability to sell or promote products that are not sustainable.
I recently learned about Cadiz, a company that owns 45,000 acres of Mojave Desert, or something like that, under which they have found an aquifer. The company contracted CH2M Hill to perform a comprehensive study of the aquifer in [...]
Nick Poggioli carries with him the terminal illness of a small Illinois town. Dad’s family opened a general store in 1950. Mom grew up on a dairy farm. General store closed in 2000. Cows near gone. More than the small town sick. A whole way of living dying.
It’s been [...]
This is the first in an occasional series of summations of chapters from Classic Essays on Photography edited by Alan Trachtenberg. I’m simply going to present some of the basic arguments and points of each chapter as a way to structure my reading and also, I hope, stimulate some discussion here on dA. [...]
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