Comments on: the lost art of storytelling, or contrary thoughts on earth day http://blog.mittenartworks.com/the-lost-art-of-storytelling mitten muses, rants and raves about life, the internet, web design and art Wed, 19 May 2010 15:15:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Edward Vielmetti http://blog.mittenartworks.com/the-lost-art-of-storytelling/comment-page-1#comment-992 Edward Vielmetti Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:27:40 +0000 http://blog.mittenartworks.com/?p=585#comment-992 we discovered that earth day is the day before garlic mustard day... we discovered that earth day is the day before garlic mustard day…

]]> By: Edward Vielmetti http://blog.mittenartworks.com/the-lost-art-of-storytelling/comment-page-1#comment-989 Edward Vielmetti Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:31:29 +0000 http://blog.mittenartworks.com/?p=585#comment-989 My cousin (who has a PhD in clouds, how cool is that) is a climate scientist. For me, the impact that I can see and measure is the changes to the harvest and flower seasons. When is it time to pick blueberries, and is the blueberry crop in danger because of no rain? <a href="http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2005/04/last_frost_in_z.html" rel="nofollow">When is the last frost in zone 5b</a> (May 15), and is that date systematically changing so that we're really in zone 6? How far north do you need to go to reliably go cross country skiing? All questions that impact day to day life. My cousin (who has a PhD in clouds, how cool is that) is a climate scientist.

For me, the impact that I can see and measure is the changes to the harvest and flower seasons. When is it time to pick blueberries, and is the blueberry crop in danger because of no rain? When is the last frost in zone 5b (May 15), and is that date systematically changing so that we’re really in zone 6? How far north do you need to go to reliably go cross country skiing? All questions that impact day to day life.

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