Notes from the Surf XIX

Pele is on the move out here. The vog is getting really bad. And in another unprecedented event, Kilauea is releasing steam from what is being called juvenile water, which has never been seen before anywhere on the planet.

Saturn storm has hurricane-like features. “Massive whirling vortex” has scientists perplexed. [...]

Notes from the Surf XVIII

Here’s the latest in internet rumors; is Barack Obama the antichrist? Apparently many think so. What’s for sure is the near hysteria he seems to leave in his wake.

For a dose of reality in an unreal world, check out Neil Kramer’s new post Crossing the Rubicon: Breaking the Fake News Trance [...]

Global Warning?

Climate change is in the news. And it’s not just the UN Climate Change Commission in Bali, which recently completed negotiations for its new Bali Roadmap, the successor pact to the Kyoto Protocols regarding greenhouse gas emissions, slated to go into effect in 2013. News about all sorts of crazy [...]

Notes from the Surf XII

The lava flow from Kilauea is still slowly making its way towards a local community. For more, updates are posted at this site.

Check out this cool video Galactic Alignment, Floyd and the Hyperdimensional Bees by Through the Looking Glass and Labyrinth of the Psychonaut’s Steve Willner, aka Soundlessdawn. Some interesting things to think [...]

Notes from the Surf

…or remark-able items from my own Surfing the Tao journey

May 25th was Universal Day of the Jedi, and it was a big one this year, 30 years since the first Star Wars movie came out! True geeks might know [...]

Organic Bees

I want to pass on the latest on the bees. An excellent series of articles are making their way around the Internet with another point of view on the Colony Collapse Disorder phenomenon. Sharon Labchuk is an organic beekeeper (and longtime environmental activist) from Canada who has given us all a heads [...]

Bee Colony Collapse Disorder in Hawaii

In the past week I’ve received several links from friends about the missing bees. The media continues to report on current research into the cause of the disappearance of bees from their hives around the world. Taiwan just announced the loss of over 10 million bees. The other day The New [...]

Hawaiian Bees are Missing Too

Regarding my post yesterday on our neighborhood bees, I just spoke with my neighbor and got an update.   Although the beehive in their yard is still buzzing away (behaving strangely, though, he said they are circling in unusual ways for some reason), they have 60 other hives up north on the island, and are confused [...]

Missing the Bees

I live in Hawaii in a relatively rural place so we are used to seeing things like wild turkeys wandering around our neighborhood.  Yesterday a wild goat scampered across the street in front of my car to join its family on the other side.  The Big Island has wild pigs, cattle, goats, horses, mongoose, [...]