MAybe we should teach the kids to have a conversation about closing links.
Water problems: Not just for California anymore.
The kids are talking about the spillover caused by unclosed parentheses. Logorrhea contamination is real.
Keep dreaming, hippie. The Rust Belt cities are going to take Nature down with them as they go.
teaching kids about conversation.
You can't talk your way to sustainability.
Dear god. I've been sleeping very little, ok?
I've been lurking intermittently. Just haven't had much to say.
Admittedly not necessarily in the spirit of the place, but also not necessarily in the spirit of the place to just ease back in, so I dunno.
Semi OT: Are there any good books for young children that teach environmental lessons? Not in the Lorax style, exactly. Water quality/conservation is one thing I'd like to see, but I'm also interested in books that teach about global warming in a way that's semi-understandable to a small child.
Are you recommending that for a 3 year-old?
You'd probably need to read it aloud to them, admittedly.
As soon as I saw "a suburb of Milwaukee" below the picture at the beginning of the article I understood completely. A lot of cities have shitty suburbs, but Milwaukee is really and truly special as far as that goes.
It has some nice things going for it, as a city, but it really is surrounded by deeply appalling people, as in, Scott Walker voter level appalling.
IIRC, the creepy sexual stuff doesn't start until the sequels. It's fine for kids.
Dune that is. Keep kids out of Milwaukee suburbs.
We had a book called Michael Recycle which may be more appropriate.
16: and it creates a natural audience for Dune Babies. http://www.unfogged.com/archives/comments_13188.html#1614457
It has some nice things going for it, as a city, but it really is surrounded by deeply appalling people, as in, Scott Walker voter level appalling.
I keep meaning to go re-read that article about how the talk radio loathsome three DJs of Milwaukee single-handedly groomed Scott Walker to power. It made a big impression on me.
Sometimes the rules for journalistic objectivity just make no sense whatsoever:
radium, a naturally occurring element thought to be dangerous to people,
It's probably fine.
Reading God Emperor of Dune aloud might be a good way to get your 3 year old to go to sleep.
24: Totally biased against the likely probability that radium is an artificial byproduct of the Derro civilization's mighty engines.
I was thinking of something at the reading level of Make Way for Ducklings or Blueberries for Sal.
How about Make Way for High Tide or No More Glaciers For Sal?
Or perhaps Mike Mulligan and his Prius?
BG, are you familiar with this?
http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Kapok-Tree-Amazon/dp/0152026142
My kids liked it.
Oh, here's a cheerful story: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2015/08/24/everything-is-on-fire-and-no-one-cares/
The writing style in 32's link is excruciating, but he's right about the disquiet. It's a point well taken. It's going to depress me in a way I can't really describe to keep watching the Pacific ocean go to shit from the coasts.
One Morning in Maine with Very Few Other Living Things
I kind of want something that will leave them convinced that the Oil Sands are bad.
But CCarp's suggestion is good.
The writing style in 32's link is excruciating
I read him every day for awhile in the early aughts*, then completely burned out on it.
*i.e., the Days of Bushy Rage