After 20 years of working as a biogeochemist and oceanographer, Christina De La Rocha had a mid-life crisis, flew the coop of her career, landed in Germany, and decided to learn how to write.
So far she’s published a couple of short stories in Analog, and one book of popular science (Silica Stories) and, rural life being what it is, now spends more time with birds than with people.
See more of her work at her blog, Germanium Geranium.
The European Green Belt: Walking The Iron Curtain Trail
The Iron Curtain Trail, within the European Green Belt, stands as a symbol of progress and equality, unifying communities that still feel the scars of long separation.
Avoiding Climate Change: It’s Not Easy But Not Yet Too Late
No one ever said avoiding catastrophic climate change would be easy. Perhaps that’s why we keep sleep walking toward disaster.
To Mask or Not to Mask
To mask or not to mask, that is the question, or at least one of them, that all of the people who are not desert island hermits are asking themselves today.
A Gluten Free Take on the Superiority Burger
With hints of fennel and toasted walnut, these burgers are perfect accompanied by guacamole, lettuce, tomato, onion, mustard, and a side of homemade potato wedges.
Onion Tarte Tatin
A simple meal that can be made without using a single one of the top ten crops the human race over-relies on, which strip the soil of nutrients. And it’s delicious.
Living Sustainably: Why It Cannot Be All About Me
We all need to fight for our governments to deliver the broad-scale, top down changes that are needed so that we can live in a reasonable yet sustainable way.
A Super Simple Knitted Owl Hat
A quick and easy hat for the novice or experienced knitter. Perfect for cold nights, for lovers of homemade creations, and for lovers of owls.
Gluten-free Vegan Eggplant Parmesan
This vegan eggplant parmesan is delicious in its own right, and it shouldn’t keep you up all night in gastroenterological or climatological pain.
Single Decker Jam Drop Cookies
The bonus here is that, like a lot of cookie recipes, this is a super low single use packaging recipe.
Cocoa Nut Cookies
Light on single-use packaging, these Chrismassy treats make the perfect naughty, yet eco-conscious, snack. Yield: 35 cookies.
Reducing Snack Packaging
The best way we can address the issue of plastic waste is to add our voices to the clamor pushing for systemic change. But what can we also do at home?
10 Things You Can Do to Decrease Your Carbon Footprint
While we wait for governments, car companies, and power providers to create the infrastructure to allow us all to aim at living zero net carbon lives.
Climate Change: Addressing the Issue by Changing Tack
A storm of our own design bears down upon us.
Now, the time has more than come for us to ask, not what the world can do for us, but what we can do for the world.
How To Go Carbon Neutral
If we hope to avoid the impending climatic disaster, carbon neutrality should be the goal of everyone, but is net-zero carbon emissions truly achievable?
The Europe Refugee Crisis: Will The European Union Transcend Its Migration Crisis or Fall Apart?
If the European Union does not cooperatively rise to the challenges posed by incoming migrants before climate change sends ever greater waves of refugees, it risks rending itself asunder, turning Europe back into a continent of warring nations.
What is Organic Food? And What Does Organic Mean Anyway?
What does organic food mean? We explore the agricultural usage of the term ‘organic’, and the difference between conventional and organic farming.
An Argument Against Pesticides: Fuming Over Fumigation
When a nearby farm is sprayed, we have to shut all our windows and doors to keep the fumes out of the house, but there’s nothing we can do to save the bees.
Agricultural Biodiversity: Eat Weird Plants To Save The Earth
Of the roughly 400,000 plant species known to currently exist on Earth, roughly 30,000 are edible to humans. Of that 30,000, we have cultivated 7,000 at one time or another.
Climate Policy: An Open Letter to the U.S. Government
Climate Policy: It may turn out to be too little, too late, or it may buy us the time we need to switch over to net zero emissions economies in time to spare the world exceptionally catastrophic climate change.