About This Blog

Hello and welcome to the new blog everyone.

For those of you who weren't following me before, I've changed the name from The Roaming Environmentalist to My Pale Blue Blog. I did this for a few reasons, but mainly because it was time for a change.

So, what's up with the name?

The new blog name is a reference to Pale Blue Dot, a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 space probe. The picture was taken from about 4 billion miles away and shows our planet as a tiny dot in the vastness of space. It was taken at the request of Carl Sagan, an astronomer who then wrote the follow-up book Pale Blue Dot. The gist? All of human history has occurred on a speck of dust we know as Earth. It is nothing compared to the rest of the universe, and it is the only place humans have ever called home.

Given our planet's insignificance, and therefore my own insignificance, and the insignificance of my blog in a universe of millions of blogs, I thought this name was appropriate. It also means I can write about pretty much anything under the sun-which I prefer. As much as I love environmental science and traveling, I like to know a little bit about everything rather than everything about one-or a few-things.

I'm also going with a new look and feel, but there will still be all of the same past, present, and future content.

I hope you enjoy.