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The epigraph Peter Burke has chosen to open his new history of worldwide ignorance is ripped from a political debate. It’s Brazil, 1989, and the presidential incumbent is decrying the high cost to the state of his government’s investment in education. His challenger shoots back:
Dear EarthTalk: Is it really bad for the planet to upgrade my phone every two years?
– A.J., Darien, CT
Earlier this month at Indian Mountain School in Lakeville students conducted a trash audit to see what was thrown away over the course of a few days. Of course, the sorting of garbage and refuse revealed a lot of plastic waste, including one-time food items in permanent plastic wrapping.
National Day of Prayer
In our State and across America, the National Day of Prayer will be held on Thursday May 4, 2023.
100 years ago — April 1923
Mr. Harry Millies is driving a new Durant touring car of the sport model.
Perry Loucks of Lime Rock has been confined to the house for a few days with an attack of laryngitis.
The ice left the lake last week — a somewhat later date then in a number of years.
Katie, at rest. Photo by Roxana Robinson
I’ve always been intrigued by animal communicators. There are lots of things we don’t know about animals, and even if they don’t write novels, they have their own ways of transmitting thoughts and feelings.
Over the past 80 years the world’s human population has quadrupled while at the same time people’s taste for meat has grown considerably. But the supply has not been able to keep up with the demand. Currently according to the World Health Organization nearly a third of the world’s population have inadequate food.
As a person whose wardrobe has an average age measured in decades, I’m usually not one to walk into a clothing store on a whim. Certainly not a fashionable men’s shop in Venice, Italy. In full tourist mode I couldn’t resist the lure of the soft fabric and beautiful colors and what looked like a great deal.
Last week this newspaper reported that our state representatives had made some progress in their efforts in getting state and town officials together with the Housatonic Railroad to discuss its herbicide spraying along the train tracks that pass through Northwest Corner towns.
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