Discourse for all interested in all things air-quality related
During my younger days I traveled far and wide. Landing a teaching job, albeit a part-time position, at California State University, Long Beach in the Engineering and Industrial Technology Department in Sept. 1987 and extending to June ’88, during those nine months I vacationed twice. This clean-air adventure is in reference to the Memorial Day … Read more
Taking the scenic route Finding my way around the Golden State is sometimes an adventure in itself. To help, out comes the map just so I know how to get to where I want to go (from Fresno). Okay, so maybe you’re now thinking to get to Dunsmuir, it’s the 99 (State Route 99) to … Read more
Onward and forward. It was a trip I made not too long after I settled in California’s San Joaquin Valley in 1977 to Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks, which pretty much lie east of Fresno. By “not too long,” we’re talking within 10 years. Sequoia and Kings Canyon for me were not exactly high … Read more
In recognition of Air Quality Awareness Week in 2017, I have put together this series of clean-air adventures. I wanted to bring attention to places I traveled to in the past with vistas of unparalleled beauty, where a person could actually see the horizon and where polluted air was out-of-sight, out-of-mind. I indeed cherish those … Read more
The “adventures-in-clean-air” series continues. Big-city life has its advantages and benefits but it also has its drawbacks. So, it is with the last in mind, that there are times when the part of us that longs to be in the great outdoors, wants to get away to, the great outdoors. This impulse, motive force, urging, … Read more
Too much of a good thing? hogwash! there is no such thing. The “good thing,” in this instance, is San Luis Obispo, a quiet community nestled among oak-studded hills on California’s central coast. SLOverview SLO or SLO town, as it is also referred to at times, is as unassuming as it is picturesque. I’ve said … Read more
Living in a location considered by many reliable sources to have America’s worst particulate matter pollution – that’d be California’s expansive San Joaquin Valley with roughly 4 million residents, 2 million motor vehicles and which accounts for half the state’s yearly agricultural production sales dollars – literally and figuratively taking “a breather” from any number … Read more
When the Air Quality Matters blog first was started – Nov. 5, 2012, President Barack Obama had just completed his very first term in office and was ready to embark on his second. Meanwhile, the country at this juncture had emerged – and I would add glowingly and stalwartly – from what has since become … Read more
The Baltimore & Ohio; the California & Western; the Cape Cod & Hyannis; the Filmore & Western; the Gettysburg; the Roaring Camp & Big Trees; the Sierra; the Yosemite Mountain-Sugar Pine; the Yolo Short Line; and the Yreka Western railroads. Yup, I’ve ridden these rails, all, behind steam and diesel alike. Never rode electric, but … Read more
As an East Coast resident all of 19 years at the time, prior to my Los Angeles, Anaheim, Fullerton, San Francisco visit in Sept. 1972 – my first trip to the Golden State – I had little idea of what smog was. I was going to Disneyland to take in all the sensory experiences this … Read more