Never thought I’d spend my retirement years researching jet fuel, but here I am at nearly seventy, reading technical papers about hydroprocessed esters while my coffee goes cold. My daughter…

I used to think climate change was just about polar bears and melting ice caps. Pretty naive, right? It took a random Tuesday night community meeting in East Austin to…

You know, I never thought I’d be the guy talking about seaweed at the local tavern, but here we are. Started about eight months ago when I was working on…

That ice storm in February 2021 was a real eye-opener for our family. I mean, we’d dealt with weather before – you grow up in North Carolina, you know about…

You know how sometimes your kid asks you a question that completely changes how you think about something? Well, that happened to me again, but this time it wasn’t even…

So there I was last August, sitting in our living room at 2 PM with the thermostat reading 78°F inside while it was pushing 95°F outside, and I’m thinking… this…

I never imagined I’d become the neighborhood lady with boxes of broken electronics in her basement, but here we are. My daughter thinks I’ve lost my mind – “Mom, why…

I’ve been putting off writing this post for months because, honestly, I was embarrassed about how long it took me to get on board with heat pumps. My upstairs neighbor…