John BryantMar 13, 2021The Greening of the Concrete Wasteland"Big Yellow Taxi" is a song written, composed, and originally recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1970, and...
John BryantDec 28, 2020Holiday Lights, and then Electric LizzylandThe celebrations of Christmas and other North American mid-winter holidays are collections of stories and traditions from many cultures...
John BryantSep 2, 2020The Clean Water CrisisIt may be a Blue Planet but many people on the Planet don’t have access to clean water. With all the water on the planet only 3% of the...
John BryantAug 31, 2020Togwotee Pass, Wind River Range, Wyoming - A Climate StoryI have many climate stories. One that was particularly impactful has to do with an area of America to which I’ve always felt very...
John BryantMay 19, 2020Icebox Earth to Hot Box Earth; Maybe 3 Billion RefugeesThe amount of ice on Earth was pivotal in the creation of human civilization ten thousand years ago, a fact that paleo-climatologists...
John BryantMay 10, 2020Oil Boom Town HotelsThe story is written that a young Conrad Hilton came to Texas, specifically to the North Texas oil fields, looking for a bank in which he...
John BryantApr 29, 2020Tohono O’odham and the Santa Cruz River ValleyFor over a thousand years beginning circa 400 CE the valley of the Santa Cruz River was inhabited by the indigenous Hohokam culture. A...