It’s so synchronistic that today, the day when so many people are cleaning up trash on beaches around the world and when I am so wishing I were one of them, two boxes of beach trash have washed ashore in Santa Fe. The boxes of plastic that Don Elwing collected from Kamilo Beach and sent me for the Porous Borders art project just appeared at my door. I felt as nervous as a bride opening her new chinaware, carefully taking out each piece and admiring it before gently laying it

After eight years of study, the International Geological Congress has declared that Earth’s 12,000-year-old geological Era, the Holocene, is officially over. We are now in the Anthropocene Age, the time when humankind's actions have made irreversible changes in the natural systems we depend on – our soil, our air and our water. There is still a lot of discussion about exactly when the Anthropocene Age began, but most scientists agree the ‘Great Acceleration’ began around the