Washington Post: Even if the weather hasn’t quite come around yet, summer is almost here. For many people, that means it’s almost time to head — very, very slowly, if you leave on a Friday — to the beach.
For the environmentally conscious, however, a beach vacation is sometimes fraught with guilt. Few places exhibit man’s encroachment on nature more clearly than a beach. Turn your back to the ocean, and you see rows of hotels and high-rise condos. Gas-powered jet skis skid across the ocean, and planes drag advertisements…