BushHumor on September 10th, 2008
Ahhh its crazy the day has finally arrived! I’m actually leaving for South Africa on a Mission Trip today. We are going to help build a three room school house for the kids in Bukwini a small city near East London.
Trust me its not the London you’re probably thinking of. I had to actually check a globe to believe it myself, but there is actually a city in “South” Africa called “East” London they must really love their directional names in Africa 
Not very often you hear of a city starting with North, East, South or West in the states. I’m sure I’m going to learn of many things that the here in the States they would or do normally do over there…
BushHumor on July 14th, 2008
Probably you missed it, but last week there was a fascinating interview on the NPR program Talk of the Nation. The segment featured a scientist named David Goldberg, who answered questions about his research concerning the plausibility of storing massive amounts of carbon dioxide in basalt formations deep below the earth’s oceans.In a paper that is available online and will be published in an upcoming issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Goldberg and his colleagues write about how a basalt formation off of the coast of Oregon and Washington could potentially store anywhere from 120-150 years of carbon produced by the United States in its cavities (assuming current U.S. emission rates do not increase).
While initially I was extremely skeptical of this idea (because I thought that it might cause all kinds of unintended ecological havoc), by the end of the interview, I was somewhat more optimistic.
The idea of storing carbon dioxide under the ocean reminds me of a rather naive idea I once had as a kid. I thought that a good way to rid the earth of our human waste would be to rocket it into space in huge bundles. Then a giant incinerator in space would burn the garbage. Every time I see a bumper sticker that says “Earth First: We’ll destroy the other planets later,” I chuckle as I am reminded of what a silly idea shooting our litter into space would be. Read the rest of this entry »
