In the News—Bring it Home

This morning's environmental news in the SF Chronicle:
Plastics, floating in the ocean are harming and killing all sorts of marine species from whales to sea plankton. Although I can't help but flash back to that episode of The Simpson's where Lisa gets bit by a dolphin while freeing it from a plastic six-pack ring, I'm finding it heartening that these news items are coming at a furious pace.

Friday's piece on fish species extinction was interesting on a few fronts: 1. that scientists now have fairly conclusive evidence that makes them confident to project an earlier date for the disaster, and 2. that this piece was picked up by papers of all stripes. It was widely circulated. Nice.

When I began my year of sustainable living in January, I remember seeing environmental articles on global warming, soil erosion, peak oil, the food chain, every once in a while. If you have an RSS feed, go subscribe to the APScience wire. Every day, most of the articles have to do with these issues.

Although the elections are looming and our attention here is pretty focused on the national level, we're also reminded by the growing number of articles that it's mighty important to keep local issues and the concept of relocalization in the forefront, too. It won't bring our boys and girls in uniform home from Iraq, but it will help address many of the larger issues that oil and globalization have caused.

Bring it home.

Meanwhile, The Boy turns 15 on Thursday. How could this be?