Floating islands

A nice article is out about the Princeton Hydro floating islands on Woodcliff Lake. These are intended to be a living tool fighting algae in the reservoir water. 

 

Trees quote

 “Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.”

― Hermann Hesse, Wandering

The Subway is Not Scary

The Subway is Not Scary is an essay from Hamilton Nolan. If you are one of those people who avoids the subway in NYC, give him a hance to convince you that you should ride it more. I find it to be a pretty amazing system and, as he suggests, don't understand why some work so hard to avoid it. 

Dams and groundwater

 In a recent post, The Hydraulic Mission Impossible!, Nik Kowsar looks at the damming of Western US rivers, with highly visible impacts, as a hint about what is happening below the surface. But, as he explains, the groundwater is where the biggest crisis lies hidden.

"New research using NASA’s GRACE satellites reveals the Colorado River Basin has lost 28 million acre-feet of groundwater since 2003—twice the volume lost from Lake Mead and Lake Powell combined."