Soon They'll Place a Sin Tax on Air
It’s no wonder half the girl’s tennis team in the 626 has asthma. We run along the 10 freeway every week. It’s a three-mile loop, a...
Clean Air for Our Children
My son: five months old. My daughter: three years. I sleep sitting up on the couch, holding my son in my arms every night because that’s...
Taking the Air
I breathe quite often. In my car, windows rolled down, I suck in air that carries more carbon monoxide than usual. I can almost taste the...
Smelter
Round the switchbacks up to Dooly Knob— wobbly buffalo below us. Our quick breath cooling, we straggled up the last jagged rock toward...
The Air Belongs to All Living Things
From the standpoint of biology, all living creatures need oxygen to exist and continue to create. As a person with a compromising medical...
Beware the Pogonip!
Your wife is pregnant, and you’re worried. Ozone levels spike higher and higher. But both of you have good jobs. You can’t just up and...
Inversion
We are singing beneath the ochre haze of smog and sleet and phosphorescence, trundling up the great hill in the great car, the sharp...
We Can and Must Adapt
I am a professional skier and outdoor adventurer. I am proud to call Utah home and I love this state for so many reasons: the snow,...
Clear Air: Our Will Must Equal Our Technology
In 1991 I relocated the small outdoor equipment company I founded, Black Diamond Equipment, from the coast of southern California to the...
The Air We Breathe
A popular '60s expression was “you are what you eat.” True but incomplete. You are what you eat, what you drink, and what you breathe....