Richard Zurawski

The quest to modernize, to make life easier, has truthfully given us much, but at the same time taken much from us. Invariably, the task savers, the short cuts and the innovations of modern technology have only shifted the burden from one place to another, usually with an added cost taxing the burden. Usually that [...]

There are pros and cons to living in a geothermally active zone. The people in Indonesia live in constant fear of the next great and devastating volcanic eruption that can be not only locally disastrous but have global effects. For the folks in Iceland, an island sitting atop the longest mountain chain in the world, the [...]

It was called the war to end all wars; the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month commemorating it. Yet, 21 years later, it re-ignited to lay waste to Europe again. Again, it was the war to end all wars. When it was over, my father barely survived — an orphan without [...]

Sticking with my geothermal theme, I have listened with interest, about the almost eruption of yet another volcano in the Indonesia, one that appears to have halted itself for now. By a quirk of geology Indonesia is home to some of the most dangerous volcanoes on the planet. And in the past some of the [...]

From time to time I wonder at the marvelous processes that drive the inner works of this fine planet and how it all, so neatly, seems to fit into an amazing pattern. During this past week, with the advent of Noel on our fine beaches, I had occasion to venture to Peggy’s Cove. It is [...]

Now that we are in the recovery mode after the onslaught of the storm named Noel, I thought it might be nice to recap and paraphrase the Bard on Avon, with a turn of his famous phrase from Romeo and Juliet, which basically says, no matter what it is called a rose still smells as [...]

You can learn a lot by looking at what nature has to offer and has done with the resources at hand. In the four billion years that life has been on our planet, it has been able to create and sustain an environment that has been perfect for life, no matter the changes and the [...]

On this Hallowed Evening I am going to write a few words that some people are going to find very, very scary. I am going to make the case for Nuclear Power. Madness, you say? Not quite say I. Nuclear power done poorly, now that is madness. But, of course that is not what I [...]