I just found this opinion piece in the New York Times from 2023: The World’s Population May Peak in Your Lifetime. What Happens Next? It starts: The global human population has been climbing for the past two centuries. But what is normal for all of us alive today — growing up while the world is growing rapidly — may be a blip in human history. Children born today will very[…] Keep reading →

You’ve probably heard the advice not to compare things to the Holocaust or slavery. I have. It says that however bad you think your thing is, it’s not as bad and you just end up looking ignorant. [EDIT November 16: Immediately after posting this post, I started updating and editing the graphs, explanations, and more. The changes were too big to just update this post. I’ll keep it here for[…] Keep reading →

My building has a little garden in front with a low wall people can sit on. Isn’t it nice to provide space for people to take a load off? I’m sure most of them don’t, but plenty leave their garbage in our little garden. Here are some pictures from a typical morning. The “Rite-a-way” box is rat poison I don’t like that the superintendent puts there, but with all the[…] Keep reading →

Today I posted about My fifth annual cooking workshop at Drew Gardens: pictures and video. I also made these two videos to show off Drew Gardens. I don’t think I posted a walk-through before. Anyone wondering how much they can change a neighborhood will love these videos. For context, here is what Drew Gardens looked like before, barren and strewn with garbage. After looking at it, watch the videos. The[…] Keep reading →

In case you can’t make out the image below, it was lesson number one in the importance of proper form in doing Turkish Get-Ups. In particular, it’s a dent in my floor in the shape of the bottom edge of one of my kettle bells. If you lose control of a kettle bell while doing a Turkish get-up, especially when you’re holding it high above your body and the floor,[…] Keep reading →

One day charging with solar in Washington Square Park, I saw a bunch of birds flapping around on the panels. I’m not sure if you can see them playing around in this picture. The video below partly captures their playfulness, but not as much as seeing them. They’d flap up onto the panel, then flap around up and down, solo, in pairs, and in groups. It was a warm day,[…] Keep reading →

Emissions of greenhouse gases are measured and reported as major indications of environmental problems. Emissions aren’t the relevant measure. They distract us from what is relevant to human well-being. They lead people to say, “I exhale and poop. Life requires pollution,” and conclude action won’t work. To be more precise, they feel like they conclude, they actually just rationalize and justify the preconception they wanted. They miss that fossil fuels’[…] Keep reading →

I’ve written and recorded a bunch lately on the peaches and heirloom tomatoes I’ve been eating tons of lately because people don’t take them. Here are those posts: I took a picture of the tomatoes so people could see how some are bruised and the skin broken. Maybe many people would find them unacceptable. In the picture below, the one in the upper left is pretty bruised, but didn’t lose[…] Keep reading →

Amazon: save pennies, ruin your community. My neighborhood is filled with delivery trucks taking up public space delivering tons of stuff daily, followed by sanitation trucks hauling tons of garbage. Meanwhile, there are no produce stores almost anywhere in the city. People shopping online wreck communities. First, they mostly buy less-than-useless things that will end up poisoning landfills. Click any result from a search on “most popular purchase on amazon”[…] Keep reading →