Environmental Geography

One reason I teach is so that I can keep learning! Many thanks to my student Rosie for introducing me to yet another genre of Latin Americ...

See my CLIMATE page The South African municipality of eThikwini is best known by the name of its major city, Durban. This city on the I...

If those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, then those who ignore history are determined to do so. Dallas Morning News  columnist D...

Recently I was lamenting the state of geographic illiteracy with a colleague. It is an increasingly common condition that was most famously...

Yesterday we enjoyed a very pleasant and fairly traditional Thanksgiving dinner with friends. Living only a dozen miles or so from Plymouth ...

When we think of music, we do not always think of the stuff that makes it possible. A Gibson guitar , for example, is as much an idea  as ...

February 2019 update : At some point since my 2011 post, the Green Bean came under new management. I now enjoy frequent visits there, mostly...

Our family does a lot of blogging. Our dog, Perry the spirited minpin, helps. So much so that we decided to hop on the branding bandwagon a...

It is hard to know what counts as a human being any more. As the  Occupeligo has helped a much broader part of the population understan...

As often happens, two stories appeared in the press on Friday that are essentially unrelated, but with contrasting elements that reveal some...