After 45 years of scientific research I have seen woeful inadequacies in the way science is conducted and in science culture. It is no wonder that students today are turned off by didactic teachers, boring books, and a generally hostile environment where new discoveries are greeted with hostility and even ostracism. Science enrollment in college is down greatly and there are concerns about the ability of the US to maintain its technological leadership in the future due to lack of new scientists.

I founded the International Earthlight Alliance (IEA) to address this problem and to do highly creative basic research. IEA attracts interest in science not through text books, but by participation in and observation of ongoing research on anomalous topics of interest to students and the general public. We apply stringent scientific methodology and hig-tech instrumentation to study a variety of anomalies. We have studied the geophysics of Native American sacred sites, glowing balls of plasma (earthlights) that spontaneously arise at certain locations such as Marfa Texas, and the electrical characteristics of standing stones in Scotland. Each of these (and others) are wonderfully interesting teaching opportunities, and could lead to very practical discoveries such as alternative energy solutions in areas where subterranean energy is strong enough to produce earthlights.

Additionally we will soon add a new environmental section to the web site, earthlights.org, called "Appreciate the Earth". The goal of this section is to inspire environmental concerns by showing pictures of the beauty of the earth, and unusual animal and animal-human relationships. We also hope this will counter some of the violence that bombards us every day on television.