Environmental Geography

Geography asks three questions:
Where is it? Why is it there? So what?
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Geographers apply spatial understanding to the real world.

Monday, December 18, 2023

So Goes the Colorado

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  Click to enlarge -- notice the tan hash-marked areas. I follow the Facebook page Geomorphology Rules because it so often features maps li...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

Blue Zone Living

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While driving home recently, I heard a sliver of delightful, bittersweet radio amidst the sad litany of suffering and violence that has dom...
Monday, October 02, 2023

Think Before You Redwood

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This video addresses a landscaping trend of which I was unaware: the rampant planting of redwoods in places they are not meant to grow.  Our...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Pueblos Oaxaqueños

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While scrolling social media (as I too often do) earlier today, I was struck by this marvelous map, courtesy of the site Estado de Oaxaca . ...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Big Yellow Taxi

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I was already teaching environmental geography when I gradually realized the relevance of Big Yellow Taxi to my chosen field. It is a 1970 s...
Friday, August 18, 2023

Madeira Voyage Photos

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I finished editing all of the photos and videos from my recent visit to the Amazon, during which my friend Miguel and I traveled Down the Cr...
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Maui Tourism Considerations

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Damage in Lāhainā village Maui. Photo: Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources via  Big Island Now   NOTE: This post originated in ...
Saturday, July 29, 2023

Madeira Playlists

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 As described in more detail in Down the Creek , I had the good fortune this month of taking a long-awaited voyage on a cargo ship from Port...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Down the Creek

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The Madeira River is arguably* the longest of the Amazon River's 1,000-plus tributaries. It is also the route I was privileged to trave...

Detroit Recovery

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It has been a decade since the City of Detroit declared bankruptcy, leaving its "citizenry" vulnerable to the whims of fiscal over...
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