tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.comments2024-03-06T03:00:01.560-05:00Environmental GeographyJames Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-77569714952500791342022-05-10T07:40:56.349-04:002022-05-10T07:40:56.349-04:00Caveat: Many people contribute meaningfully to hig...Caveat: Many people contribute meaningfully to higher education in Massachusetts without being tenured. But recent experience has shown that when those who never earned tenure manage higher education, they have tended to dismiss its importance. James Hayes-Bohananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-30514018870204120212016-10-13T15:48:09.382-04:002016-10-13T15:48:09.382-04:00Hmmm, I have a different opinion about France and ...Hmmm, I have a different opinion about France and the Red Cross now. Shame on them! ~J CoxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-25750360979753125252016-08-06T11:54:24.812-04:002016-08-06T11:54:24.812-04:00Did you see the campaign to save the clock? http:/...Did you see the campaign to save the clock? http://savetheecclock.com/ It was found in the river by a kayaker but the structure must be rebuilt. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-11467861311615570172015-09-11T05:41:52.870-04:002015-09-11T05:41:52.870-04:00Indeed -- I guess I've been away from the Show...Indeed -- I guess I've been away from the Show Me State for far too long!James Hayes-Bohananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-7381559165679211472015-09-10T22:11:43.677-04:002015-09-10T22:11:43.677-04:00Hi Professor,
While I enjoy reading your blogs I w...Hi Professor,<br />While I enjoy reading your blogs I was surprised to have come across a glaring inaccuracy (minor in the scheme of things) regarding the state capital of Missouri which you stated as Columbia. Perhaps you had a long night without coffee, but meant to write Jefferson City instead. Although my intention to correct wasn't to embarrass you I figured it needed your attention. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-77660530056381065972015-05-19T12:17:43.709-04:002015-05-19T12:17:43.709-04:00Hello James, I'm only now discovering your pos...Hello James, I'm only now discovering your post. I'm happy that you shared my coffee table post. You might enjoy my son Marcel's geography video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM-Hdn7h7tU<br />Sylvie :)Sylviehttp://www.sosylvie.typepad.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-65169843466076999732014-12-20T22:45:38.536-05:002014-12-20T22:45:38.536-05:00But the roads also create their own geography. I ...But the roads also create their own geography. I remember a paper that I developed about 20 years ago where I identified that expansion of a metropolis by the extension of the road network. <br />Basically it was an expansion of Christaller. The Metropolis grows because of the highway network. As the Metropolis grows, the support systems for goods brought in by trucks result in sub-urban locales for the distribution of the goods. As these distribution centers cannot be supported by the infrastructure of the inner city, they form on the outskirts of the Metropolis. Then there develops a support structure for the distribution centers and the trucks moving the goods. This is most obvious with the large "Truck Stops" located just outside of the Metropolis. Then a community grows up around the distribution locale and the truck stops to provide the workers. Thus the Metropolis grows outward along the established roads.<br /><br />Charles Smithhttp://mapsmith.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-5025605935157242182014-07-26T11:48:28.132-04:002014-07-26T11:48:28.132-04:00Thank you, Chale. Yes, indeed. Although it is rela...Thank you, Chale. Yes, indeed. Although it is relatively safe, our guides and I are also cautious by nature and do not take any chances. As with travel anywhere, there are places not to go alone, and places not to go period.James Hayes-Bohananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-10626688930539752992014-07-26T10:50:12.499-04:002014-07-26T10:50:12.499-04:00Great that you will be visiting Nicaragua. Its a...Great that you will be visiting Nicaragua. Its a relative safe to visit, just need to exercise common sense not go in areas where even the locals don't go. SaludosAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11598821583431586541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-5376851118957352822014-07-26T10:47:58.048-04:002014-07-26T10:47:58.048-04:00Great that you will be visiting again Nicaragua. ...Great that you will be visiting again Nicaragua. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11598821583431586541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-79946812400451757922014-05-21T18:14:27.501-04:002014-05-21T18:14:27.501-04:00Can we add to the list of "plucky billionaire...Can we add to the list of "plucky billionaires and oil companies" those visionary 'end time' christians who think it's "God's will" that rising sea levels and global climate change should wreak havoc on civilization?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12282024680379460048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-23391144238447709522014-02-26T07:17:22.769-05:002014-02-26T07:17:22.769-05:00I had never heard any reference to Baltimore Count...I had never heard any reference to Baltimore County Beltway either. Nice post. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12282024680379460048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-76955421736402017572013-09-02T07:22:46.430-04:002013-09-02T07:22:46.430-04:00Environmental education is not a separate discipli...Environmental education is not a separate discipline.It is a systematic process in which learners are empowered to critique a problem environment, through direct experience and the communication of information.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11989604334381556866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-59385604865508157722013-08-31T06:27:25.745-04:002013-08-31T06:27:25.745-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11989604334381556866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-19455627486327677572012-12-16T12:46:39.843-05:002012-12-16T12:46:39.843-05:00Thanks for both of these comments. Rum-Punch, you ...Thanks for both of these comments. Rum-Punch, you can just search "fracking" on this blog to get a lot more of my thoughts plus links.James Hayes-Bohananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-59938275209764851262012-12-16T10:28:30.321-05:002012-12-16T10:28:30.321-05:00Your blog is very important talking about what hap...Your blog is very important talking about what happens to Mother Earth in these days! And... Havana, have been there one time many years ago:) I loved it! Thank you! Anna KarinAnna Karinhttp://www.annakarinsartandplej.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-43724107005814675512012-12-14T12:06:23.262-05:002012-12-14T12:06:23.262-05:00This is so odd. Today, whilst listening to the TV ...This is so odd. Today, whilst listening to the TV news, I heard about the UK allowing fracking to be allowed to continue after it caused a minor earthquake in the UK. Then I came across your site tonight. I'm not sure what this fracking is all about but it seems to be an issue on our environment so I must try to find out more about this. <br />If you or anyone else is able to break this 'fracking' down in laymen's terms to me, it would be great, otherwise I shall search the internet for more info. Rum-Punch Drunkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13531893705181077869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-60078154453415693482012-08-30T09:49:34.886-04:002012-08-30T09:49:34.886-04:00Thanks for that, Cory. I'll have a look. Conse...Thanks for that, Cory. I'll have a look. Conservation is our best resource -- we have just been unwilling to live within our planetary means. We eventually have to do things differently; the question is how much long-term damage we will do just squeezing a few more years out of fossil fuels. James Hayes-Bohananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-58946273593287532642012-08-29T22:38:41.245-04:002012-08-29T22:38:41.245-04:00The fracking debate is hard...as I got into a deba...The fracking debate is hard...as I got into a debate on Facebook today and you'll see further comments on my blog (www.cstesprit.blogspot.com). There are just no viable alternatives and if we are looking to move off foreign imports of oil it's the safest and most productive form. The technology simply isn't there to try to move to a wind, solar, hydro, geothermal based society. What we need to do is support the continued development of safe fracking technology and tax natural gas extraction with 100% going towards the R&D of renewable/alternative sources of energy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11818217040341092477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-15496272238636641842012-05-15T19:04:47.721-04:002012-05-15T19:04:47.721-04:00good point. I am guilty of the K-cup scene at the...good point. I am guilty of the K-cup scene at the office but fortunately, not at home.Robert S. Bristowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09960831222214808415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-72527808044619521382012-03-06T15:02:56.086-05:002012-03-06T15:02:56.086-05:00Everything is Geography!Everything is Geography!YearofBookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05968173210251454925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-3116828106749387842012-01-03T23:02:12.529-05:002012-01-03T23:02:12.529-05:00Thoughts and prayers for as safe productive journe...Thoughts and prayers for as safe productive journey. Thanks for doing an ongoing blog. I might bring the blog up on the projector during class.seekingsoulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01015294060681192479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-73037161018166058342011-12-01T09:24:59.254-05:002011-12-01T09:24:59.254-05:00Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform extra...Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform extract a pledge from conservative members of Congress not to vote for any kind of tax increase on penalty of having that fact publicized to conservative members of the electorate for the purpose of impairing the lawmakers' chances of reelection. It is amazing to me that members of Congress have allowed themselves to be subjected to such intimidation and outright blackmail for all these years. It is time for it to stop. Members of Congress have to be free to vote their consciences.<br /><br />Sec. 22-3252 of the D.C. criminal code has an expansive description of the offense of blackmail that reads as follows:<br /><br />Section 22-3252 Blackmail<br />(a) A person commits the offense of blackmail, if, with intent to obtain property of another or to cause another to do or refrain from doing any act, that person threatens: <br />(1) To accuse any person of a crime; <br />(2) To expose a secret or publicize an asserted fact, whether true or false, tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule; or <br />(3) To impair the reputation of any person, including a deceased person. <br />(b) Any person convicted of blackmail shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.<br /><br />Consider how many Senators and Representatives have signed the pledge and/or have felt threatened by Norquist's threat to publicize the names of everyone who declines to sign it. That adds up to a lot of counts (and a large amount of potential fines and jail time), even if a short statute of limitations applies.<br /><br />The beauty of seeking to prosecute Norquist and his organization for blackmailing Congress is that it does not require Congress to do anything. All that it needed is for a member of Congress (perhaps Sen. Tom Coburn and/or retiring Rep. Barney Frank?) to sign a complaint against Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform or for the D.C. D.A., to get a grand jury to indict him and his organization.DogFennelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-58486687920454776052011-11-26T10:27:17.565-05:002011-11-26T10:27:17.565-05:00Here is a clip of Louis C.K. running through the h...Here is a clip of Louis C.K. running through the horror that Americans have foisted upon themselves by choosing cheaper and more convenient over the small business owner.<br /><br />The clip details how we've traded owning a business for jobs where we get "to wear a vest." <br /><br />For those under 30, you have no idea how this country was a collection of communities, where each town had its own flavor. Now, it's hard to tell what town you are in.<br /><br />If the Occupy people want to get the movement going - focus on the consumers, not the companies. It's the consumers who vote for the kind of life they get every time they spend money.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeaaKh9cwcU<br /><br />The first half is about the life we've chosen. And, be warned, it's sad.liamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05678731580525710205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763539.post-29358106822048486162011-10-04T10:39:41.958-04:002011-10-04T10:39:41.958-04:00well said, james ... i know that i qualify for ben...well said, james ... i know that i qualify for benefits and could really use them, but i have not applied partly out of pride and partly from shame that i be considered one of the mass that mooches and wastes<br /><br />i couldn't agree more about the healthy choices. in addition to desiring good foods, i CAN'T eat boxed and canned goods or processed meats (deli) and many other foods<br /><br />and i need to eat as much iron rich foods as possible so consume steaks, etc. and quirky foods like blackstrap molasses instead of sugar<br /><br />it would cost the state a lot less to feed me well than pay for doctor's visits every time i faintMaurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03756479379684023597noreply@blogger.com