polychaos

I had a project for a while where I had to keep track of the offspring of two consecutive matings (I'm an insect scientist) of the individual "RIH2476". So the first offspring was 2746-1, etc. and the second group of offsping was 2746-1-1 etc. EVERY SINGLE TIME excel thought that I was referring to January First Year of Our Lord 2746, which you'll recognize as 729 years from now. I had to insert a character for every instance of that, or the auto-sorting would be all messed up.

My favorite is "You and I", followed closely by "Be OK".

Unfortunately excel auto-recognizes this kind of sequence as a date, so every time I enter the cell and then exit it, it would re-format. Even if I started with a blank cell, formatted it as text, and then entered the numbers, it would then auto-format to date. If you then re-format to text it converts it to the numerical date-text. It's very frustrating

Off the top of my head: there are lots of great clubs that you can be involved in, depending on your interests:

• You can join clubs like Paul Nicklen's (Nat Geo Photographer) Sea Legacy (not pointing that one out as one to join, it's just an example)

• You can search for local Ocean Cleanups

• You can scale back your use of Microplastic-Containing clothing like tech-fabrics (just buy cotton instead)

• Eat sustainable seafood

• Generally reduce your personal carbon footprint

• If you're a diver, don't touch! and choose marine-safe sunscreen

Check out the NOAA site for more tips and linkouts

Are you implying that if people have a gray water filter they will buy more land and fill it with grass, purely because the water is cheaper? It seems like the ability to save water by using reclaimed water in toilets and sprinklers is absolutely a projected savings to both the individuals and the community; this isn't even mentioning the savings because of reduced strain on septic and treatment systems.

They were totally illegal in the USA until 4 years ago. Lots of people have gray water filters on their cabins in my native Norway.

Why don't you favor subsidies on technologies? It seems like the most logical way to incentivize individuals to install long-term return items like filters, panels, etc.

edit: on a side note, how do you feel about the phenomenon of "shipping out" water? California's economy is essentially based on getting rid of water in the form of crops. Is there a way you can see to fix this problem?