On an city hike earlier today, we came upon this Station North urban farm where we spotted a bunch of hens (roosters are illegal), a coop, active bee hives and tilled land that surely had produced some agricultural products last growing season. …
Today I’m posting about what to me is some recent environmental research of the unnerving sort. Ocean Acidification – global warming’s “equally evil twin.” I’ve lately been reading New Yorker Science writer Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Sixth Extinction,” published last year by …
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Friends, leave such a theme to The New Yorker and writer Ethan Kuperberg! OH, THE WEATHER outside is frightful, The heat wave brutal and spiteful. Our crops have no water to grow— Let it snow, let it snow, let it …
Back in September, PARK(ing) DAY was enacted worldwide. It was begun in 2005 by a San Francisco art and design studio, Rebar. It converted a single metered parking space into a temporary public park in the downtown. There have been memorable …
This is a very interesting young company IMO. Seventh Generation is known for its green household and personal care products. Fact is that for St. Margaret’s Eco-Friendly Household Cleaning Products blueprint, developed by members of the church’s Environmental Missions Committee, …
Opening today in the town of Krommenie, the Netherlands, is a solar bike path–or, why not…a green road? This stretch is being called the first of its kind in the sphere of public works ownership. The path includes embedded solar …
of water from our Creator’s perspective.” This from the Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake’s Kolya Braun-Greiner, MDiv, Project Coordinator, Trees for Sacred Places. Her piece in the current bulletin is so worthy that I want you to see a good share of …
“With these ‘watershed eyes’ we can view the sacredness… Read more »
Beleaguered Liberia (Ebola) will receive $150M in aid from Norway in exchange for Liberia’s cessation of clear-cutting its rain forest. Now that’s progressive! This negotiation is a payment for ecosystem services. Negotiations of this kind follow a rationale known as …