Whole Life Times

02/12/2025

This should raise some eyebrows. Spot on except for the part about flax, but maybe it just fit.

29/11/2025

Great news!!

For the first time in U.S. history, renewable energy has surpassed fossil fuels, generating 50.8% of the nation’s electricity in March 2025. Solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal power are now the present, not the future.

Massive solar farms, offshore wind turbines, expanded hydro plants, and advanced energy storage systems all contributed to this milestone, while coal and natural gas usage declined.

This historic shift is reducing emissions, improving public health, and creating millions of green jobs, signaling a permanent transition to a cleaner, sustainable energy future.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Reports

15/11/2025

Drug addiction is both simpler and more complicated than we’ve been led to believe.

Everything the Trump administration is doing to stop the flow of drugs is just making the problem worse.

12/11/2025

Still concerned about the climate? How quaint! (We are too!)

Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.

29/10/2025

Brilliant and we never needed it more.

France made history by becoming the first nation to require large supermarkets to donate unsold but edible food to charities and food banks.

Passed in 2016, the law applies to stores over 400 square meters, which must sign formal agreements with organizations that redistribute fresh produce, bakery goods, and near-expiry items to people in need.

The law also forbids supermarkets from deliberately spoiling food to prevent its reuse — a practice once used to discourage dumpster divers.

Instead, France’s system turns what was once waste into nourishment, redirecting millions of meals every year to families who might otherwise go hungry.

The impact has gone beyond charity. By combining environmental responsibility with social action, France has reduced food waste, supported local communities, and inspired other European countries to adopt similar models. The initiative now extends beyond supermarkets to include catering services and food producers — creating a more circular and humane food system.

France’s approach has transformed an environmental challenge into a humanitarian solution — a global example of what policy can achieve when empathy meets sustainability.

Source:
Assemblée Nationale de France (2016). Loi n° 2016-138 relative à la lutte contre le gaspillage alimentaire.
The Guardian (2016). French law forbids supermarkets from wasting food.

27/10/2025

An uplifting free news story about how people all over the US continue to help our beautiful, life-sustaining planet.

A series about local solutions, and the people behind them, to environmental problems.

25/10/2025

“Her microbiome had an abundance of a type of beneficial bacteria, Bifidobacterium, whose growth can be spurred by bacteria in yogurt. Ms. Branyas ate three yogurts a day.”

She also “followed a Mediterranean diet, did not smoke or drink, and walked an hour a day until the early 2000s when doing so became too difficult.”

Plus… good longevity genes. We can’t change that (yet!) but we can do the rest.

Spanish researchers say Maria Branyas Morera, who lived to 117, won a genetic lottery. But experts caution that healthy genes and microbiomes don’t explain longevity on their own.

26/09/2025

A small way to make a difference for small creatures.

Nearly 1 **Billion** birds were in the sky migrating south last night. We knew it would be a big night, but the birds beat model estimates by a significant margin. Honestly tonight has the potential to be even bigger. Now through Sunday is the most important time to turn off those outdoor lights to help migrating birds on their journey south. I will post a link later today on other ways you can help birds. Take a look at that national radar picture near midnight last night. Most of the colors were birds, and the big bird surge was in the red circle. Our entire area will be in that zone tonight.

02/09/2025

For how long have we been saying this? Grateful for an official study, but so many trees decimated in the interim.

Deforestation is playing a greater role than researchers expected, according to a new study.

30/08/2025

South Carolina, Missouri, Mississippi, and Georgia are listed among the top states for murder rate. Wondering why the Marines aren’t being sent there instead of DC, where 2024 saw a 31% drop in homicides and a nearly 50% decrease in carjackings compared to 2023. 🤔

30/08/2025

What are you doing today to take care of our planet?