: About Me

I've been a life-long student of science, and am currrently at Sonoma State University, studying energy management and design. My other claim to fame is that I have had more weird jobs than anybody I know, which has left me knowing a little about a lot of really different things. I know how to cure inverted eyelids in newborn lambs, test the viscosity of mayonaise, guide rafts down class III rapids, build solar cookers, and repair slate roofs, to name a few.

My passion is ...

learning, teaching, and making life better for everyone

I know too much about ...

mold

My parents always told me ...

expect the best from others and they'll live up to your expectations

My childhood ambition ...

to be a scientist

My favorite memory ...

sleeping in the sun, eating a strawberry, with my dog for a pillow

Why I write ...

to get better at communicationg

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

birds outside

My first job ...

Avon Animal Hospital

My best moment ...

riding my bike down a mountain drafting a semi

My inspiration ...

Nature

Politics, News & Issues > Climate Change Can biofuels help us reduce global warming pollution and our dependence on fossil fuels?

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Plants have been turning sunlight into energy since the dawn of photosynthesis. In fact, the fossil fuels we have now were originally made by plants that used sunlight for chemical energy and carbon from CO2, to build their little plant bodies. When we burn fossil fuels, we release that energy along with CO2 from the carbon that's been trapped and concentrated in those plant bodies for so many eons. (This isn't rocket science; sixth graders learn about photosynthesis and how plants store carbon in their cells.) What we're doing by burning all that ancient plant material though, is raising ...

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