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Tag Archives: Environment
Everything to Gain
What if you could right a wrong from your parents generation, and pass on a blessing to your children? What if you could build businesses in the community, cut crime, pollution, and disease, and make a profit doing it?
Posted in Margin Notes, Mind & Society Also tagged Alex Steffen, BOF, Business, Cities, Community, Economics, Heroes, Majora Carter, NYC, Race, Reorganization, Social Justice, Sustainability, Sustainable South Bronx, TED, WorldChanging Leave a comment
Spring is here!
photo credit: tanakawho No more snow! Mayor Dave says it’s spring, so by golly, it is spring! (Even at the beginning of March.) Franklin the Turtle agrees!
Posted in Margin Notes Also tagged Blossom, Seasons, Snow, Spring, Surrounded by Reality Leave a comment
Protected by a Child
How many times do my children protect me from harm? How does their innocence move me to seek innocence? Their natural desire to explore, learn, grow and create often protects me from losing context.
Posted in Having Faith, Reading Circles, Science & Technology Also tagged Alaska, Food, Illinois, Parenting, Pregnancy, Reading Circles, Sandra Steingraber, Snow 2 Comments
Sacrifices and Community
Do we even know how much we've lost, how poisoned we are, how far away we've been driven from the land? By connecting the science of toxic materials with our human knowledge of childbirth in Having Faith, Steingraber gives us new knowledge; what would it mean for us to inhabit it?
Posted in Having Faith, Science & Technology Also tagged Coal, Community of Practice, Fish, Food, Having Faith, Health, Lead, Mercury, Polllution, Precautionary Principle, Pregnancy, Sacrifice, Sandra Steingraber, Traditional Knowledge, Wisconsin 1 Comment
Our first Reading Circle!
Kriss over at Circle M Farm suggested Having Faith after reading author Sandra Steingraber’s earlier book, Living Downstream. We’ll be reading it together beginning in January, 2008, with Nicole Five Pennies as our host. So go look up Kris’ wonderful invitation to read together, get your copy (the little blue box by the title will [...]
Posted in Having Faith, RCB, Reading Circles, Science & Technology Also tagged Book Clubs, Having Faith, Reading Circles, Sandra Steingraber 1 Comment
Madison Reads Leopold, 2010