The Bay


USDA Establishes People's Garden

Some interesting factoids about a place called home...

About 100,000 streams and rivers thread through the Chesapeake's 64,000-square-mile watershed, which is home to almost 17 million people in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, New York and the District of Columbia. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in North America, with a length of 200 miles and 11,684 miles of tidal shoreline, more than the entire U.S. West Coast. The Chesapeake Bay supports more than 3,600 species of plants, fish and animals.

Maasai protest Nairobi expansion


The Maasai held protest of the new Nairobi Metropolitan plan in Isinya yesterday. I went. The Nation is reporting that over 3000 Maasai men and women attended the easy-going affair. Tensions were high and I wonder if the next demo will be as peaceful.