This is my first weblog and I am feeling a bit overwhelmed already. The main website has its first page, a contact list of 60 organizations has been assembled, and this blog is being initiated with its first words. All of this began with a simple idea, "A Drop Of Blood" as a symbol for the hidden price of oil.

I consider myself an Artist Philosopher, so what you find here will not be typical of other blogs. That will be both the advantage and disadvantage of what you read. As you can already detect, I am not an entertaining person. The quick and clever gene is missing from my DNA. Perhaps, you will read thoughts that provide an alternative way of seeing and experiencing the world. Hopefully, my insights will aide you on your journey through life.

I have degrees in Biology and in Art, which helps me to understand science and to see beauty in our world. This somewhat unusual combination of interests is also the reason that Global Warming is such a concern to me, because it is severely damaging our planet. The first warning about rising global temperatures were in the 1960s. Over the past 40 years, humans have increased greenhouse gas concentrations to levels that the earth has not had for 650,000 years. We have added to the greenhouse around the planet, and the effects are more obvious every day. We must begin to dismantle that greenhouse by reducing greenhouse gases. We must act today, and everyday, until greenhouse gases return to pre-1960 levels.