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Earth Day Thoughts about Carbon and Water 21 Apr 2013 | 03:04 am
A new report this week from Carbon Tracker shows the financial folly of investing in oil exploration when the oil companies doing the exploring already own far more oil than can be used in the foresee...
Ethics in Denial: Universities vs. Science 5 Dec 2012 | 11:38 pm
The New York Times has an article today about the "Disinvest from Oil" campaign that Bill McKibben has been pushing in his "Do the Math" tour during the past month. The logic is that unless we can fo...
Black Friday and American Water Culture 23 Nov 2012 | 07:49 pm
Today is the biggest shopping day of the year for Americans when stores offer special today-only sales to tempt shoppers. After celebrating the Thursday festival of "Thanksgiving" yesterday, when we ...
Framing the Water Debate 19 Oct 2012 | 02:14 am
Did you feel something was missing from the presidential debate on Tuesday? We don't even expect to hear about the big issues facing our planet -- climate change, land and water degradation, entrench...
The Ethics of Omission 26 Aug 2012 | 11:28 pm
The ethics of building dams, or polluting streams, or other conspicuous acts that damage rivers or people or both, are at least easy to point to and argue about. The ethics of not acting, however, th...
Urban Stream Deficit Disorder 24 Apr 2012 | 03:39 am
The Santa Fe River is flowing again, just in time for Earth Day. No; it's not because the reservoirs upstream are getting too full from the snow melting in the mountains above. There's not that much...
Of Dogs and Rivers 14 Jan 2012 | 04:06 am
Human societies have co-evolved not only with rivers, but also with dogs. I've been thinking about both this past week. Last Saturday I was in Paris, walking along the quintessentially civilized Riv...
Manipulating Rivers 26 Nov 2011 | 10:33 am
Civilization grew up around the manipulation of rivers, so I don't want to suggest we shouldn't, but there are limits to how much manipulation is a good thing. This became a theme of my trip to the B...
Water Ethics: Getting to "WHY"? 10 Nov 2011 | 03:15 pm
I’m attending the annual conference of the American Water Resources Association in Abuquerque and the theme of ethics, surprisingly enough, is in the air. The opening keynote address was by Cynthia ...
Ethics of Agricultural Water Transfers 26 Oct 2011 | 09:52 am
California farmers are being paid not to plant so Los Angeles and nearby cities can use the water that would otherwise go to (mostly low value) crops, says an article in the New York Times yesterday. ...
