Think Globally, Rain Locally

by | May 24, 2011 | Get This

Here is a good article by Adam Voiland for the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. It explains why it’s irresponsible to get lazy when talking at parties about climate change, whether you are disputing climate change’s existence or...
Our neighborhood inspiration, Joan Brainard

Our neighborhood inspiration, Joan Brainard

by | May 4, 2011 | Get This

Deep River (Connecticut) Town Hall Around the corner from my house live the Brainards. Joan Brainard hung her laundry on two long clotheslines every Monday and Thursday for almost 47 years. In 2007 I went to visit her and her husband, David, in their kitchen for an...
Dropping everything to visit your daughter

Dropping everything to visit your daughter

by | Apr 29, 2011 | Get This

Williamstown, nestled in the Berkshires. Yesterday I cancelled everything and drove up to Williamstown, Massachusetts, to see my 20-year-old daughter, Annie, who has been weathering a very busy semester at Williams College. We both felt the need to just breathe the...
Connecticut gobbling power at home

Connecticut gobbling power at home

by | Apr 21, 2011 | Get This

My home state’s Council on Environmental Quality’s annual report tracked a discouraging trend in power use, per capita, on the homefront — it’s going up. Here’s a quotation from the report: “Residents reversed course in 2010 and...
She browsed the newsstand and found…

She browsed the newsstand and found…

by | Apr 4, 2011 | Get This

Owl’s Head fire in 1907, pre-Weeks Act; photo courtesy of the Forest History Society appeared on Appalachia’s cover Shambling around the web, I stumbled upon a blog by a Colorado woman who on a trip east found Appalachia journal, which I edit, on the...