Cleaning up ocean garbage; how a home was spared destruction in the Maui fires and getting back to nature with author Kim Stanley Robinson

This week's post has an environmental theme, with a sprinkling of hope.

While the news has been all about deadly wildfires, tropical storms, Russian intrigue, former President Donald Trump’s legal woes and the Republican nomination race, I thought I’d offer this focus on some of the other interesting items in the news that caught my attention.

Collecting all that plastic

Image courtesy The Ocean Cleanup

This week two ships a…