Environmental Geography

During my 2006 study tour to Cape Verde, my students, colleagues, and I had many privileges, including a meeting with the U.S. Ambassador Ro...

The most recent post on this blog is a great story of peace-building from Uganda, involving an interfaith coffee cooperative that builds pos...

I try to learn something new about coffee every day, and I usually get my wish because nearly everybody in my life knows this about me. I ...

Access to water is an increasingly important area of contention between property rights and human rights. As best exemplified by the standof...

I have been on the internet long enough to know what GIF means, and what these files were originally for. Graphic Interchange Format ori...

Photo: Mike Estabrook by way of New Bedford Guide . At first it was the beautiful image above that drew my attention to an article poste...

From The Poke: Time Well Wasted. One of the great benefits of teaching, of course, is learning from our students. And the internet means...

Click to enlarge One of the great joys of listening to WGBH-Boston late at night or early in the morning is the variety of programs it a...

"America did not get its wealth by being nice..." ~~ John Trudell During my drive to an Atlantic harbor this morning, I hea...

From its berth nestled in the corner of Pope's Island Marina ... ... an early-rising crew ... ... led by a worth skipper ... t...