Freelance Writer
Thomas is an environmental advocate currently residing in the Pacific Northwest. In his spare time, he enjoys experiencing the outdoors, raising chickens and ducks, and reading about current environmental issues. Despite slight colorblindness, his favorite color is green.
The diversity you find in nature is absolutely incredible. There are so many different plants and animals with specific evolutionary traits, that just when you think you’ve seen it all, you’re confronted by something new, interesting, and at times dumbfounding in nature. Animals can range from being one color or color pattern across their species...
Recently, a heartwarming story that portrays the goodness that remains in humanity went viral. While the origins and authenticity remain unconfirmed to date, it’s a feel-good tale of communal love and kindness. A young man named David had gone to an auction to try to buy back his family’s land, and amazingly, 200 other farmers...
Growing your own potatoes hasn’t always been an option for many people. For some it’s because they don’t have the right kind of soil, others live in an apartment or home without enough space, or perhaps their backs simply can’t handle the amount of bending required to dig the spuds out of the ground. Thankfully,...
The outdoors are great for relaxing, being active, socializing with friends, and making some of the best cottage memories, until mosquitos ruin it– for everyone. Some people even avoid spending time outdoors because of these blood-sucking pests. Summer is mosquito season because they thrive better in warm weather, and who can blame them, most of...
Homing pigeons (aka Carrier pigeons) were used to deliver messages across long distances for hundreds of years. While our modern-day postal service, telephones, text and internet messaging have taken away the need for pigeons to deliver messages, their skills are still being put to use. Unfortunately, that use is not exactly a noble one. One...
A man named Brad Rich was out on a boat expedition with his friends off the coast of Seward in Alaska [1]. They were on a mission to film the beautiful seagulls native to the area. If being in the “right place, at the right time, at the exact moment” ever needed a visual description,...
An undercover investigation carried out by Cruelty Free International and Soko Tierschutz revealed the horrifying animal cruelty that animals are being subjected to at the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT) in Mienenbuttel, Hamburg Germany [1]. According to CFI, LPT is a “family-owned contract-testing laboratory carrying out toxicity testing for pharmaceutical, industrial and agrochemical companies...
For centuries, humans have used the ocean as well as fresh waterways as a sort of dumping ground for various types of pollution, like factory farm runoff, oil, and sewage. As a result, in the United States alone, half of all rivers are too polluted to support healthy aquatic life. [1] And that pollution oftentimes...
Food is one of the benchmarks of the ancient and modern Italian culture, and as such, they have it in excess and mouth-watering varieties. The best chefs in the world arguably come from Italy. It’s a wonder that a country so “crazy about food” still has millions of people going hungry, with about 5.1 million...
Lady bugs – they’re delicate, beautiful, bright red spotted insects, and are arguably one of the cutest. Every year, you may notice that ladybugs seems to be covering everything. (Despite their being everywhere, it’s quite a pretty sight to behold.) Lately, however, these supposed ladybugs have appeared in large numbers at a rather strange time....
One hiker in Florida, Tracey Cauthen, discovered a rare rainbow-colored snake, a rare species that experts haven’t seen in that area for over 50 years. Cauthen spotted the beautiful four-foot-long snake while hiking through the Ocala National Forest, which is 47 miles north of Orlando. The Florida Museum of National History confirmed this sighting was...
World-renowned physicist and cosmologist, Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) left behind a trail of famous quotes, wise words, and inspirational sayings before his death. But he’s also known for his real talk, telling audiences that humankind is greedy and a threat to the planet. In 2016, during an interview with Larry King of the Larry King Now talk...