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About Bruce

Work for sustainable development of small islands and the Chesapeake Bay; ex-Peace Corps (Volunteer and staff) in LA & Caribbean; cruised Caribbean on S/Y Meander for three years; like small tropical islands, French canals, Umbria, Tasmania, and NZ. Married 52 years to the late Kincey Burdett Potter (see Kincey.org). President of the now-sunsetting Island Resources Foundation.

Potemkin Climate Change Adaptation

Posted on May 18, 2008 by Bruce

So Shankar Vedantam has it right in this article from the Washington Post, 17 May 2008. — read the excerpt below, or the whole story with illustrations at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051603612.html?hpid=… Continue reading →

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Costs of Medical Practice

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Bruce

— but Should they “Practice” More? [from my friend Daniel, who is a lawyer, not a Doctor, or, gracias a Dios, a statistician] INTERESTING STATISTICS! Doctors (A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000. (B) Accidental deaths caused by Ph… Continue reading →

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Rundy Hamblen, age 80+, in her Jet ski on the Chesapeake . .

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Bruce

Rundy Hamblen, age 80+, in her Jet ski on the Chesapeake . . , originally uploaded by bpotter1942. This is definitely the kind of photo I want to have in my obituary — assuming it’s publishable in a family newspaper (assuming, I guess that there … Continue reading →

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NOW What???

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Bruce

Know How He Feels, originally uploaded by bpotter1942. So there I was, walking over the veldt, minding my own business when they shot me in the fanny with this dart, threw me in a box, shipped me halfway around the world, and then locked me in a c… Continue reading →

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New Spam: Carbon Credits

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Bruce

[Guess it would be just tooo pollyannish to say it’s proof that key environmental messages are now being “mainstreamed.”] To: Continue reading →

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When is SPAM a New Year’s Card?

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Bruce

Check this out — I was about to delete this SPAM, and then I discovered it’s a message from a major program manager at CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL — guess the old categories don’t hold up any more. . . . I’m getting a headache thinking about it… Continue reading →

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Web Semantics 3.0 for Web Users 0.9

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Bruce

This message started as an e-mail to Twine.com, a (still-in-restricted-beta Web 3.0 application) about a personal wish list for improved management of web information resources. 1) Why am I writing this as an e-mail? That certainly seems awfully W… Continue reading →

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Whatever you say, don’t use the “L” word. . .

Posted on December 24, 2007 by Bruce

[Stimulated by a holiday card from the Center for American Progress. . . ] Every once in a while you realize how contaminated the “L” word really is. Scratch a so-called “Progressive” deeply enough (you’ll have to ask MuKacy exactly how deeply, bu… Continue reading →

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Michael Chertoff: The Grinch Who Stole [Canada’s] Christmas

Posted on December 18, 2007 by Bruce

For the three years past, my widely dispersed siblings and I have taken our respective families, and their families, etc., to Niagara-on-the-Lake for a family Christmas weekend. The tradition of a family get-together before Christmas goes back ove… Continue reading →

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Xmas Tree in San Andres.JPG

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Bruce

PB300117.JPG, originally uploaded by bpotter1942. Stack of green wine bottles outside of a beach bar just south of town on the small Western Caribbean island (belongs to Colombia, but about 500 miles from Cartagena) of San Andres. Check the FLICKR… Continue reading →

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