Tag: sustainability
Advantage of the Undersea Vantage Point
It’s always a matter of perspective. One person’s half full glass is half empty for someone else, and so that is our yin and our yang. This push and pull, good and evil, happiness and sadness, positive and negative is what keeps our wheels turning and humanity evolving. The notion that we might achieve some…
Read MoreThe World was Flat, and Now it’s Sinking
I’ve been finding tremendous value in taking steps back to reflect on how the world turns and how life ends up presenting itself. The more I do this, the more I realize that we [humans] have much more control over our fateful destiny than we often realize, and yet this predeterminism is only really put…
Read MoreLiving Small
Flipping through Netflix for a Saturday night distraction we came upon the movie ‘Tiny: a story about living small‘. The film chronicles the journey of building a ‘tiny house‘ of not much more than 100 square feet as a permanent residence. I’ve been aware of this tiny house movement over the past several years, so…
Read Morea VERY brief visit to Hong Kong
As I made my way through airport security in Boston, a few things hit me. First, it dawned on me that I’ve barely recovered from the lengthy travel during the recent #exosuitproject at #Antikythera in Greece. Second was that for some reason, the travel process was smoother than ever – perhaps a function of both…
Read Morethe holiday stretch aftermath
I often pride myself on a degree of minimalism. That minimalistic philosophy is derivative from many aspects of life over the years, but became deeply engrained at the early years of living this life aquatic, when it was fairly common to pack up two boxes of gear and a small backpack of personal items and be…
Read MoreHigher Tides, Typhoons, and Assimilation
This week brought the human race perhaps the worst natural disaster in modern history – Typhoon Haiyan. The news headlines have played every angle imaginable to jockey for readership position – the loss of life, the mass of displaced people, major destruction of critical infrastructure, and yes, global warming. With the latter, one may consider…
Read Morechicken of the sea
An odd topic, but I feel compelled to chat about chicken. It seems I’ve eaten more chicken recently than I usually do, and for reasons unbeknown, chicken seems to be at every corner turned. A recent visit to South Carolina hammered this observation home – with fried chicken restaurants at literally every street corner…chicken and…
Read Morecity under the sea
I’ve discussed this very video previously, but feel compelled to share it again, as it just recently crossed my desk in a new context. In my opinion, this is National Geographic’s most profound piece on all things underwater: City Under the Sea. As the very few of us in the industry get ever closer to…
Read Moreearth day | where is the (dis)connectivity?
Another year, another short single day dedicated to all things green (& blue). Those of us in the environmental industry, or at least actively engaged in environmental enthusiasm and activity find the grander scale initiatives of interest and appealing – and we are generally willing to lend support however possible; be it signing another e-circulated…
Read Moreon budget crises, and gettin’ $#!T done
I’m generally incredibly hesitant to talk politics here on ‘a New Life’, but we are in a time and space where not one single person in this country can take for granted that the US is a great place to live and everything will be just fine…unfortunately we are as prone to the realities of life, injustice,…
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