Selling the new book at Chester Market, June 27

Selling the new book at Chester Market, June 27

by | Jun 16, 2010 | Get This

The cover: thinking about homesteading, no matter how small the plot My newest book is the newly updated Living on an Acre. I was still a teenager when the USDA put together the original edition, then called Living on a Few Acres. Lyons Press (of Globe Pequot Press)...
Earth, but not as we know it

Earth, but not as we know it

by | May 19, 2010 | Magazine Articles

McKibben with the 350 logo T-shirt, at home in Ripton, Vermont Nature Reports Climate Change In his new book, environmentalist Bill McKibben says we must abandon the notion that economic growth and environmental sustainability are compatible — only then can we prevent...
Heading back to the prairie

Heading back to the prairie

by | May 11, 2010 | Get This

Near the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa, lies this restored prairie. I am bound for this landscape again in July. It is here at the Hoover Library where many of the papers of Laura Ingalls Wilder, frontier author, lie. I am trying to find the...
Occupational necessity

Occupational necessity

by | Apr 11, 2010 | Get This

After running the 10K Bimbler’s Bash. Scott Livingston took the photo. Editing two trail/environmental magazines requires that I go into the mountains, a lot. Which I love to do. But this year I had ear surgery (a success—better hearing) and I spent the first...

Paying a Price to Conserve Energy

by | Mar 23, 2010 | Newspaper Articles

written for The New York Times MARGARET DEEGAN SLYWKA knows painfully well what happened 33 years ago, the last time the clocks changed to daylight saving time in the winter. Then a 14-year-old sophomore living in Seymour, Conn., she was hit by a car while walking to...