May 2024
Clean Energy: Green hydrogen?
What is “Green” hydrogen and why is it important? Global warming, caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution from burning fossil fuels, is a major, growing problem causing $92.9 billion in US severe-weather damage in 2023. Minnesota has the second most severe US weather; check out your increasing home and car insurance rates to see how that affects you. 30% of the world’s GHG comes from heavy industrial manufacturing including fertilizer, chemicals, long-distance transportation (trucks, ships, airplanes), cement, paper, iron mining and steel production. Iron and steel production alone creates 8% of global GHG; a “green” steel alternative would solve 1/12 of global warming!
Outdoors
with The life of a gentleman gardener Did I mention that my potato fork has a bent tine? The second one on the left looking down the D-handle at the ground. It's bent up, about 15° askew from the other tines.
Moving on
My modest proposal I’m no Jonathan Swift, and I’m certainly not going to recommend that we sell our children (although I was tempted on occasion). I am mightily concerned, though, about news that Social Security may run out, and I believe our income tax system is a mess.
REASON
Dummy The other day I was doing something unusual. I was in nature, doing natural things.
Wondering 61
I have spent the last two weeks gobsmacked by words—delicious, evocative, painful, image-filled, award-winning words. The smacking began with The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride.
Housing Iditarod
Finding Long-term Housing in Grand Marais by April 1, 2025 There's nothing like a good outhouse, and one of the foremost attributes of Grand Marais and its outer reaches is a handsome offering of pit toilets. When my wife and I were living in Grand Marais out of a campervan we relied mostly on pit toilets for dumping our 5.5 gallon porta- potty black water tank, much the way our forebears may have dumped deposits from a chamber pot into the pit of a nearby privy.
Help create the 2024 Summer Solstice Pageant!
The Good Harbor Hill Players invite everyone to help create the 2024 Summer Solstice Pageant to be performed June 22 at 8 pm at North House Folk School. We welcome artists, performers, crafters and helpers of all ages!
O’Brien family carrying on the legacy of supporting National Braille Press in honor of former Trustee Bob O’Brien
Three generations joined together to raise $7,900 to publish Braille Children’s Book The National Braille Press (NBP), Children's Braille Book Club of the Month Little Beaver and Echo, was published in honor of the 10th anniversary of Bob O’Brien’s passing. O’Brien was a former NBP trustee for 40 years, and three generations of his family joined together to raise $7,900 to publish a children’s braille book in his memory.
Pet of the Week
This is Lucy. She lives, mostly, in the sky. Not with diamonds, but with her boyfriend Raymond. Raymond is a good provider. He has some great stories to help pass the time and can sing like a chickadee. Lucy likes hanging out in trees, chatting with the neighbors and posing for pictures for the newspaper.