Environmental Geography

This photograph put two songs in my head at once: Midnight at the Oasis  and Hotel California . From The Daily Mail  comes a nice photo ...

As I prepare the traditional (for Casa Hayes-Boh) mashed potato casserole , I think of two stories that highlight how much has changed in th...

For several years, my students and I have been among those discussing food deserts. I mentioned it in my 2011 post Dignity Desert , about...

If a ten-minute video about a map collection can bring a tear to your eye, it is this one. And if that happens, you might just be a geogra...

Eastern Massachusetts has seen a succession of blizzards over the past month, resulting in many lost days of school and work, the ruination ...

In my honors class yesterday we were discussing, among other things, alternatives to fossil fuels. Renewable or perpetual sources such as...

As its name implies, the Public Radio International program The World  is like a non-credit college of geography on the air. The February 20...

I enjoyed the Redesign for Joy segment on Studio 360  when I heard it on air yesterday, even before I realized that the story was going to ...

A certain concentration of wealth is a good thing -- the wealthy and the aspiring wealthy assure us -- because it creates incentives. This i...

A few stories about ethics have emerged in recent days, the juxtaposition of which has me wondering a bit about ethics rules, and who they a...