Love Your Mother
On Mother’s Day and every other day, don’t forget about the most important mother of all: Mother Earth.
Continue reading »“Have the Best Earth Day Ever!”
Your assignment for Earth Day: Read these two books. Nothing else really matters.
Continue reading »Resilience
re·sil·ience Pronunciation: \ri-ˈzil-yən(t)s\ Function: noun 1 : the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress 2 : an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change Resilience. The word keeps surfacing for me lately, it’s become a mantra to help keep [...]
Continue reading »Book Review: The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
A friend recommended The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight to me recently. Its one of those books filled with the bad news that makes many look away: we are running out of cheap fossil fuel, clean water and other scary stuff. The author Thom Hartmann, who has written many books on ADHD, makes an argument [...]
Continue reading »Slow Cooking Up a Solution
The more I learn about building movements, the more I appreciate my Crock Pot. My handy slow cooker has taught me much about fixing good food for my family along with the fine art of patience and persistence. This morning, I popped loads of veggies into my slow cooker along with some bison meat that [...]
Continue reading »Are You Ready For Transition?
December’s UN climate talks in Copenhagen failed to failed to produce a strong, binding agreement to cut carbon-dioxide emissions. Most Americans are painfully aware that burning fossil fuel contributes to increasing CO2 levels, pollution and climate change, but did you know we’re starting to run low? Fossil fuels are not in endless supply under the [...]
Continue reading »Is Our Climate Warming or Weirding?
WORD OF THE DAY: Global Weirding n. an increase in severe or unusual environmental activity often attributed to global warming. Note: Global weirding includes an increase in average temperatures, heat waves, cold spells, hurricanes, blizzards, plant and animal die-offs and population explosions, and new animal migration patterns. photo credit: Capitan Giona Climate change makes the [...]
Continue reading »Extinct
As the Copenhagen Climate talks wind down, I’m not feeling all that hopeful that our world leaders can all agree on some bold meaningful action to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere. I’ve been sitting here in a funk about what the next decade will look like as the climate continues to change in unpredictable [...]
Continue reading »Bill, Please Re-think Your Drink!
Bill McKibben is one of my heroes. He’s an author, educator and environmentalist who has done more than just about anyone I know to engage and inspire people to take a stand on climate change. The world has tapped Bill for a big mission and he has stepped up beautifully. Thanks to Bill, 350.org [...]
Continue reading »Reducing C02: What You Can Do In Your Own Yard
Saturday’s world wide day of action got alot of people thinking about the number 350. What’s the big deal about 350?To paraphrase from the 350.org site:The science is clear: global warming is happening faster than ever and humans are responsible. Global warming is caused by releasing what are called greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The [...]
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