Each Sunday’s Earth Matters requires 25-30 hours a week of reading, interviewing, thinking, writing, editing, curating, and formatting. It’s a labor of love meant to provide readers here with a window on both environmentally positive and negative policies, events, and impacts. Given some of the subject matter, some weeks can be emotionally exhausting. Plus, even though I’m officially retired, my focus on Earth Matters constrains me from reading and writing other things—including standalone climate and environmental stories. One more thing taking up my time—at the end of this week, my stepdaughter and her fiancée will be married after a harrowing three months of dealing with Libyan and Tunisian security authorities to get her fiancée to the States.
All that is a preface to announcing a three-week hiatus. Earth Matters will return for the rest of the year on May 5. Until then, I will be writing scattered other posts and doing background reading and interviews for future Earth Matters.
Meanwhile, here’s a short video: