Last time around I started discussing a relatively new frontier in environmental regulation – credits trading or “cap and trade.” It’s a relatively free market idea, at least compared to the old-fashioned “command and control.” Last time around I discussed the pilot cap and trade program: emissions trading for control of acid rain. Before moving […]
Read more "A Better Way Forward 2"What’s meant by a “cap and trade” regulatory scheme? As of a decade ago, I couldn’t have told you but I’ve become familiar with this concept and have read widely from both proponents and opponents of the concept. I’m going to try to do justice to the idea here, in a few of its most […]
Read more "A Better Way Forward"A practical scheme for maximizing Liberty may have been the greatest of American inventions and worth remembering this Independence Day. All good things spring from Liberty, beginning with freedom of conscience and then manifesting as our choice of occupation, our many avocations and the causes we support, to enumerate just a few of […]
Read more "America: Bastion of Liberty, Land of the Free"Ecology: A branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments Ecology is too complex a thing to think we know it all. And it’s too big an idea to imagine we can understand it from a book, without in situ experience. It’s all change and every organism is linked […]
Read more "Ecology Beyond the Textbooks"Once upon a time I didn’t need a reason to go fishing. It was compelling, exciting, mysterious and what I’d learned from my dad to do with free time. I just wanted to see the bobber dive and feel a heavy pulse on the line. There was joy in catching bluegills and trout and […]
Read more "Why We Fish"I hope that people who attempt to read The Dying Fish will see it through to the end. The simple-minded first half, chronicling day to day life in the woods, is setting the stage for something grander in the second half. Hopefully, something worth your time. A few years back, I picked up a […]
Read more "Aldo Leopold Revisited"How do you deal with change? This question addresses one of the most fundamental partitions among humans, I think. During my long walks through the eastern mountains, recounted in The Dying Fish, I became painfully aware that, really, it was all change. If there are others who think I’m right about this, then it seems […]
Read more "Warming to Change"The photo used here is not my own and, regrettably, I’m unable to find the photographer’s name. In today’s early morning hours, my mother, Joy Keith, passed away. Her days ended at a constant care facility here in Pittsburgh’s North Hills after a long struggle with cancer. She was at peace as she left, ready […]
Read more "She Never Left Home"Can we at least agree that the March for Science was a political demonstration? If you saw any footage or read any of the press coverage, we really ought to be able to agree on this, at least. So, when science becomes a political position, it’s difficult to stand in opposition to it, lest we […]
Read more "Marching in Lock-Step with Science"Yes. I mean it. If you want to experience adventure, see more wildlife, push your fitness to the limit or maybe just catch more fish, break all the rules. If you want to experience all that the natural world has to offer, then you have to break rules. Featured pack stove by Emberlit I could […]
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the dying fish 