Anyone who has read, listened to, or watched the news in the past five years—at least via a source that acknowledges climate change is real—has heard more or less the following statement:

No particular hurricane or other extreme weather event can be precisely ascribed t...

Nature can bring you to stillness. That is its gift to you.

--Eckhart Tolle

I am just back from Zion National Park in Southwest, UT. My three and a half days in the park came as a celebration of the 50th birthdays of five college buddies and myself. In addition to a wond...

There is a soundtrack to my life. For example,

• The other day I said, “Hey Google! Play Patsy Cline.” And then explained to Riley and Tae how when we were dating, Tara gave me Patsy Cline’s Greatest Hits on tape and I’d listen to it as I drove from Palo Alto to Modes...

Riley, age 16, marched from the White House to the Capitol with hundreds of other school students yesterday to ask for better gun control in our country.

Thank you to her and to all the young people who came out across the country yesterday. You don’t have the vote yet...

Who says money isn't just laying on the ground?

Or floating in the sea?

The folks at Plastic Bank (www.plasticbank.org) had the keen insight that material as valuable as cash is in fact laying on the ground, just waiting to be washed into the sea...if nobody picks it up...

Jim and I had broken away from the other eight 15-year olds in our group and from the guide who was leading us on a hike through the Badlands in South Dakota. It was late afternoon. July, 1984.

Geology has always kind of bored me and that is what our guide was discussin...