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Election Day 2018: Vote for the Environment!

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It's Election Day 2018, and we're heading out to vote first thing in the morning. Then we'll be gardening, pruning, weeding, doing anything to distract us from the long wait before the results come in. We're just posting this quick note to say, GO VOTE! And make sure you... Vote for the Environment Whichever way you vote, make sure your candidates support environmental protections for our planet. It's the only planet we've got, and our elected officials must agree with…

Read more about the article A Shift in Perspective: Pachamama Alliance

A Shift in Perspective: Pachamama Alliance

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Every day, I get upset about Climate Change. Some days I'm angry that "no one is paying attention". Sometimes it's despair that we're too late to save the planet. You see, I do this gardening thing to change the world one garden at a time, but it's not enough. So I feel helpless. This weekend, I did something about it. I attended the Pachamama Alliance symposium called Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream. Pachamama has many meanings, but for brevity's…

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Al Gore talked with the films producers.

#BeInconvenient

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With the recent release of Al Gore's The Inconvenient Sequel, and the recent news of America's exit from the Paris Climate Accord, it seems appropriate to focus on what we can do to reduce our carbon footprint once again. While companies like Tesla tackle the automobile industry and fossil fuel dependency, we gardeners and farmers can hone in on soil carbon sequestration. I had the pleasure of sitting 1 row away from Al Gore during an interview after a screening…

Read more about the article A Visit to the Solar Living Institute

A Visit to the Solar Living Institute

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Back in my early college years, all I wanted to do was make bread and swing in a hammock all day.  I dove head-first into environmental issues and chose
recycling as my personal passion.  Along with the strong desire to sort trash came an awareness of solar power and all its benefits.  It was then that I discovered Real Goods.



Real Goods had not yet been bought by Gaiam.com when ...

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Where the Recycling Goes

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A while back, I met Kathleen Jacecko of Teaching Green, and have since been on her mailing list of newletters filled with ideas for sustainable living.  Last month, she published an entry about a field trip she made to the Materials Recovery Facility - a.k.a. where the recycling goes.  I have always been fascinated with recycling (my first environmental passion after gardening).  I thought the ...

HR 875 – Organic Consumers Association’s take on it

Continue ReadingHR 875 – Organic Consumers Association’s take on it

In an effort to read more into the recent rumor (or 'myth' as the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) has put it) about HR 875 and the idea that it would ban organic farming, I found that the OCA website has been either hacked or blocked by every major search engine out there.  It smells of conspiracy, since they are the voice of the people when it comes to organic standards and food safety.  Not that I'm a conspiracy theorist, but I thought it was uncanny that while e-mails are flying around about this bill, the ...

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