First published in October, hope you enjoy the story! You can learn more from the Scenic Secrets podcast, also found at Modern Marinade. The journey is long and dark, over 3000 miles, beginning in the Sargasso Sea. First, the tiny leaf-shaped, transparent larvae drift along the ocean currents towards the east coast of the...
Image from: https://www.dc.com/characters/plastic-man What images come to mind when we think of plastic? These? Or, how about these? Plastic is EVERYWHERE. It’s getting harder and harder to avoid it. The grocery store is LOADED with plastic- excessive packaging, containers for leftovers, dispensers for shampoo, soap, kitchen cleaners…..I’ve been trying to avoid buying plastic and...
Remember that classic sci-fi climax line, screamed by a thrashing Charlton Heston being hauled off to an insane asylum? In 1973, the year that movie came out, there was a cultural and political focus on the realization that the human population was exploding exponentially. That same year, the Battle for the Planet of the...
Most of us believe that if a product is for sale in this country, then it must be safe. Well, safe enough. If something isn’t safe, then it will have a warning label on it. We use, or eat, or handle, at our own risk, knowing the risks because the companies tell us the...
I want to be part of the neem team. I want to believe in the neem dream. Is it too good to be true? As more and more awareness slowly seeps into American homeowners’ ideas of a lawn that doesn’t kill their pets and neighborhood birds or sicken their children, Americans head to their...
