Julia Bovey's Blog
About
- Bio:
Federal Communications is where the environment and all-things-Washington meet. That's funny because I feel like my life is also where the environment and all-things-Washington meet.
I live in DC in a typical rowhouse a couple of blocks from the Zoo with my husband and two little boys. Current obsessions are weeding our tiny front garden, getting on the metro exactly where the doors will open up in front of the escalator at Metro Center, making sure my children don't play in the street, and getting every newspaper and TV station in America to cover how vital it is for Congress to pass meaningful energy legislation as soon as possible.
- Roots in:
- Boston
- Favorite place:
- West Chop, Massachusetts
- Why "environmentalism" matters:
For now, I have nothing better to offer than this Teddy Roosevelt quote that's currently part of my email signature:
"The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others."
-- Theodore Roosevelt, October 4, 1907"For real?" you may ask. What about all of the other problems in the world? Disease, war, child abuse? The ending of the Sopranos? What passes for a decent restaurant in Woodley Park? DC public schools? "Comfortable" high heels?
Yes. Because even if we cured AIDS, Citronelle opened in Woodley Park, and the Nike-Cole Haan partnership hadn't resulted in the ugliest women's shoes ever, if we have no clean air to breathe, no clean water to drink, and our planet gets too hot, no human beings will be around to enjoy the fruits of our progress.
That's why environmentalism matters to me. I may hate people sometimes, but I see the value in keeping them around.
Recent Blog Posts
- Anything to Declare? Or, Radiation Monitors Cannot Reliably Detect Highly Enriched Uranium at U.S. Ports and Border Crossings (March 25, 2008)
- Dear Senator Kerry: We're on the same side. (December 13, 2007)
- Smells Like Radioactive Pork. Ew. (December 11, 2007)
- Dont Look Back, A New Day is Breakin' (November 2, 2007)
- Does This Water Bottle Make Me Look Fat? (September 11, 2007)
- Global Warming... Will Eat You for Lunch? (August 16, 2007)
- Riddle Me This: Ode to the Model T (July 24, 2007)
- Tysons Corner, USA (July 19, 2007)
- Nature Bites Back (July 9, 2007)
- How can you be clear when you’re basically schizophrenic? (June 22, 2007)
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