A while ago I sent out a tweet that said “What is community? (not rhetorical, please respond).” I heard nothing. So either no one was listening to me at that moment (which is a very real possibility)…
A while ago I sent out a tweet that said “What is community? (not rhetorical, please respond).” I heard nothing. So either no one was listening to me at that moment (which is a very real possibility)…
Humans are storytellers. We just are. We tell stories about our past, our families, our history. We tell stories about people we’ve met and people we haven’t met. We tell stories about people who never existed at all. We tell stories about everything. Most importantly, we tell stories about our present and, woven within them, stories ...
I feel like I spent a lot of time thinking (and writing) about the personal side of the picture – One Small Change moments, food moments, gardening moments. And some other part of my brain spends a lot of time on sustainability issues from a big-picture,
Today I am thrilled to welcome a guest post from someone I really wish I had met before I left DC. Beth Oppenheim-Chan is a blogger over at 25 and Trying, where she writes about her career in the nonprofit world, life, and a bit of international development sprinkled in. Feel free to connect ...
If this reads a little bit like a love letter to my husband, well, maybe it is. I couldn’t help but think of him when I read last week’s New York Times article on the increase in marital disputes over environmental concerns. In the caveats connected to giving up my dishwasher, I mentioned that ...
The framing was right. … even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy-efficiency and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future -– because the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy… The call to action was admirable. Meanwhile, China is not waiting to ...
Wow, what a week. First we had the senatorial election in Massachusetts. Whatever your politics, the election of Scott Brown was bad news for climate change policy in the United States (and possibly across the world). The cap and trade bill was already stalled, and now you can move it one vote further away ...
Last week I wrote about how when we’re presented with a choice, most of us stick with the default option. One commenter noted that it has worked for her family with gluten-based snack food. I bet it was far less painful than convincing her teenagers to forsake their cookies! Since then, ...
I am not comfortable with being called an environmentalist, which is funny considering how many times in a week I am called a hippy treehugger and respond with a grin and a nod. I’ve been thinking about it, and have come to the conclusion that I don’t like the environmentalist label because I associate it ...
Have you ever had one of those moments when you realized that not everyone was on the same page? Not all on board? I had one of those moments yesterday. And then I realized that it’s because it doesn’t exist. Because people don't read - they just wait for the movie to ...
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