What to do with the card I sent

What to do with the card I sent

by | Dec 27, 2011 | Get This

Asylum Reservoir Number 2, Mattabesett Trail, part of the New England Trail, Middletown, Connecticut All the green gurus advise against sending holiday cards, but I sent two different ones out this season. I think that paper correspondence remains one of the great...

Emergency Preparedness, a 9/11 Remembrance

by | Dec 14, 2011 | Magazine Articles

Appalachia journal, Winter/Spring 2012 From the time Elizabeth and Annie were little, my husband Nat and I took them into the mountains, from Tennessee to New Hampshire. They trudged miles carrying loads. We taught them how to light a stove, collect water, wait out...

Car, Plane, or Train?

by | Dec 14, 2011 | Get This

During this high-travel pre-holiday season, consider some surprising findings on the carbon footprint of traveling, courtesy of Matthew McDermott of Planet Green/TLC: * For long distances, buses emit less carbon than trains. Trains still are pretty good choices, and...
Fears for America’s Parched Southwest

Fears for America’s Parched Southwest

by | Nov 15, 2011 | Magazine Articles

Nature Climate Change Volume 1 Issue 8 Nature Climate Change, November 2011 The amazing giant saguaro cactus of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States does what its human neighbours cannot. It survives on 8 to 15 inches of annual rainfall. The...
Most Significant: How Long They Stayed

Most Significant: How Long They Stayed

by | Nov 15, 2011 | Get This

The protesters’ camp in Zuccotti Park, lower Manhattan, covered in the rain. David Shankbone/Wikimedia Commons What amazes me the most about the Occupy Wall Street protest is how long the city allowed it to go on peacefully. I guess I was cynical, believing that...