The “Black Blizzards” of the 1930’s Dust Bowl

A Texas dust storm in 1935   I was watching Ken Burns' PBS special "The Dust Bowl" and saw some pictures of these amazing storms rolling acorss the plains. The documentary was a bit dry, but full of interesting, and scary, stories about who the Dust Bowl came to be and how devastating it was. […]

“Frozen Planet” – BBC Documentary Coming Soon on DVD

From the makers of the fantastic "Planet Earth" comes this 7 part series on the Arctic and Antarctic wilderness. It is on the BBC and Discovery channel in March/April 2012, then coming to DVD very soon after that. Here's the description from Amazon: From the Emmy-winning team behind Planet Earth and The Blue Planet comes […]

Improving the Air Quality in Your Office with Plants

The very green site Sustaniablog has a great post on how to improve air quality with plants:   The first step to preventing poor indoor air quality is to seek out natural alternatives to everyday products (choose low or no VOC paint, for example), but in cases where you simply can’t revamp your indoor space […]