La Nina

Although Winter has "officially" started only seven days ago.....many are wondering to themselves, "Where is the snow?" I keep asking this myself, and today on my day off, as I was sitting in the glorious sun with it being 50 degrees out and with a sweatshirt. I heard the birds chirping, strange....feels like Spring ! 

Did you know that oil and natural gas fracking, on average, uses more than 28 times the water it did 15 years ago ? Gulping up to 9.6 million gallons of water per well...Read a good article here:

Water Use Rises as Fracking Expands

Get off the computer, close your eyes, and open up a book! Then take action in your local community and do SOMETHING. The world is waiting for you ! AND............a book choice for the new year:

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell

"An immersive, mildly gonzo and depressingly well-timed book about the drenching effects of global warming, and a powerful reminder that we can bury our heads in the sand about climate change for only so long before the sand itself disappears." (Jennifer Senior, New York Times)

Amazon Link for book (click)

(but even better, please support your local book store, a sanctuary for many these days in the busy lives of Americans)