Dreams for Care of Earth

Can our dreams give us intimations of our need to respond to our wider environmental crisis? Let us consider several dreams reflecting environmental threats. This first dream, Diamonds and Tornado, is from Paco Mitchell: I am in a house with several others. A tornado is coming. We prepare for it by practicing sky-diving maneuvers—ways to stay in [...]
Earth Month 2013

April’s Earthy spirit began for me on the sunny afternoon of April 5th when my friend and I drove to Newtown, CT, to hear Richard Louv speak alongside a panel of CT outdoor educators who work with children. Louv, a journalist and author, originated the concept of ‘nature deficit disorder’ in his book, Last Child in [...]
Journey to the Ground at Our Feet

Kentucky farmer Wendell Berry once wrote: “The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, however long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch very arduous and humble and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home.” Think of the places where [...]
Active Wisdom in Adulthood II

Mary Catherine Bateson, writer and cultural anthropologist, speaks about ‘active wisdom’…
Silent Spring at 50

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring at 50 years of age is on my short list of things to mention at Thanksgiving dinner this year. Her creative genius lay in wedding her passion for biology with her desire to write. While she is remembered most vividly for sparking the modern environmental movement, Carson did not live to [...]
Honoring Resilience

I would love to live Like a river flows Carried by the surprise Of its own unfolding. – John O’Donohue I would love to flow like a river, yet I am tossed mercilessly by a mighty storm surge. Hurricane Sandy has unleashed suffering and loss, fear and uncertainty, anger and desperation. Hearts [...]
Building Belmont: In Lean Times, Efficiency Counts

In Belmont, Massachusetts, the first public building to earn certification from the U.S. Green Building Council isn’t the town hall or the mayor’s office, it’s the town’s forward-thinking senior center. “It’s a stereotype that these are the concerns of the younger generation,” says Nava Niv-Vogel, director of the Belmont’s Council on Aging and the senior [...]
Keep the Tax Bill Clean: Republicans Should Not Permit the Keystone XL Pipeline

House Republicans are once again talking about weighing down the tax relief bill with riders designed to force the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and block clean air standards. But, even these lawmakers seem to recognize the public won’t like their political maneuverings. Despite the trouble they got into in December over holding up [...]
Pearls Before Swine: The FDA Dodges Effort to Stop the Use of Antibiotics in Healthy Farm Animals

Over the past several weeks, the Food and Drug Administration has been in the news for its stance on antibiotic use in farm animals. Yet instead of making good on its 1977 promise to limit these drugs in livestock, the agency is moving in the opposite direction. The latest developments reveal the FDA is actively [...]
Obama Rejects the Keystone XL Pipeline and Protects America’s National Interest

The Obama Administration has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline for tar sands oil. This decision puts the health and safety of the American people above the interests of Big Oil. And it confirms President Obama’s commitment to combating the threats of climate change, air pollution, and oil addiction. President Obama’s decision represents a victory of [...]

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A Call To Action on Clean Air

Make the Clean Air Promise today!

The Clean Air Promise is a national campaign to protect the health of children and families across the country from dangerous air pollution. A broad-based coalition of public health, advocacy, and environmental organizations – along with concerned parents across the country – are joining together to mobilize citizens, share their stories, and demand a firm commitment to clean air from leaders in industry and government.

The Clean Air Promise campaign comes at a time when the Clean Air Act is under attack on all fronts. Even though this landmark law saved the lives of over 160,000 people in 2010, big polluters and their allies in Congress are working to weaken and block long-delayed, life-saving clean air standards that protect the health of our children and families.

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GAIA–an Ancient Myth Awakens Through Science!

By Martin Ogle Here is a scientific story of mythic proportions with a boatload of characters and concepts to tug simultaneously at both your left and right brains: In the 1960s, NASA really wanted to know if there was life on Mars, yet a Mars mission was still decades away. The agency hired James Lovelock, a [...]

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The Flood Next Time

The impact of Hurricane Sandy on New York and New Jersey in 2012 was an example of what educators call a “teachable moment.” The storm got our attention. For some, it helped to connect the dots by showing how hurricane intensity can be a secondary effect of global warming. In the aftermath of the storm, [...]

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Winterizing Your Home? Get Help Paying For It!

photo credit: Andrea R/Flickr When we decided to renovate our Wellfleet, Massachusetts home three years ago, we discovered we were changing just enough of the house to require bringing all of the electricity and plumbing up to current code. This meant removing all of the wallboard and insulation in the house to run the new wires [...]

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Gray is Green at AARP Life@50+ Event

AARP is holding its Life@50+ event this week at the Los Angeles Convention Center and Gray is Green’s Kath Schomaker and Dan Peerless are there. If you are there too, you must come visit the Gray is Green booth #2155. “We may be a ‘young’ project, but we’re going to be strutting our stuff,” Dan quips, [...]

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Fresh Local Tomatoes All Year Long

“Once you’ve tried fresh tomatoes, you’ll never go back,” Bing Wright tells me. A neighbor of mine in the Catskill Mountains, where frost in May and September is not unusual, Bing grows tomatoes by the bushel in a 20-by-30-foot vegetable patch. From that small garden, he can harvest and put aside enough tomatoes to enjoy [...]

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Hospitals to Serve Antibiotic-Free Chicken

Does it matter if the chicken you buy for your family is from a farm that uses low doses of antibiotics in the feed? Consider this: Premier Healthcare Alliance recently contracted with Murray’s Chicken of South Fallsburg, New York, to provide affordably priced Certified Humane Raised and Handled chicken to member hospitals and healthcare sites. [...]

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Earth Month 2013

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Active Wisdom in Adulthood II

Silent Spring at 50

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Building Belmont: In Lean Times, Efficiency Counts

Keep the Tax Bill Clean: Republicans Should Not Permit the Keystone XL Pipeline

Pearls Before Swine: The FDA Dodges Effort to Stop the Use of Antibiotics in Healthy Farm Animals

Obama Rejects the Keystone XL Pipeline and Protects America’s National Interest

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GAIA–an Ancient Myth Awakens Through Science!

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Gray is Green at AARP Life@50+ Event

Fresh Local Tomatoes All Year Long

Hospitals to Serve Antibiotic-Free Chicken

GAIA–an Ancient Myth Awakens Through Science!

The Flood Next Time

Winterizing Your Home? Get Help Paying For It!

Gray is Green at AARP Life@50+ Event

Fresh Local Tomatoes All Year Long

Hospitals to Serve Antibiotic-Free Chicken

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