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Gaylord Nelson at Wyaslung State Park

Madison Reads Leopold, 2010

March 6, 2010

“Yearly, the feathered tempest roared up, down, and across the continent, sucking up the laden fruits of forest and prairie, burning them in a traveling blast of life….”

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| Local Life|| Reading the Land
Tagged With: Aldo Leopold, Environment, Holidays, Reading Aloud, Spring
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Everything to Gain

July 16, 2008

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?

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Shelved with: Margin Notes|| Mind & Society
Tagged With: Alex Steffen, BOF, Business, Cities, Community, Economics, Environment, Heroes, Majora Carter, NYC, Race, Reorganization, Social Justice, Sustainability, Sustainable South Bronx, TED, WorldChanging
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Spring is here!

March 10, 2008

Mayor Dave says it’s spring, so by golly, it is spring!

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Shelved with: Reading the Land
Tagged With: Blossom, Environment, Seasons, Snow, Spring, Surrounded by Reality
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Protected by a Child

March 2, 2008

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

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.

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| Parenting|| Reading the Land
Tagged With: Alaska, Environment, Food, Illinois, Parenting, Pregnancy, Reading Circles, Sandra Steingraber, Snow
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Sacrifices and Community

February 24, 2008

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

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?

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Shelved with: Reading the Land|| Science & Technology
Tagged With: Coal, Community of Practice, Environment, Fish, Food, Having Faith, Health, Lead, Mercury, Polllution, Precautionary Principle, Pregnancy, Sacrifice, Sandra Steingraber, Traditional Knowledge, Wisconsin
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Family, Heroes, and History

February 12, 2008

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Reading Aldo Leopold

One thing that Aldo Leopold did to become great was find, and use, his voice. His family was in many ways similar to mine and to thousands of others here in Wisconsin; his famous shack seemed completely familiar to us–just like Grandad’s place up north. But he made a difference in the world by figuring out what he had to say that was worth saying, and saying it wisely and well.

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| Continuing Stories|| History|| Reading the Land
Tagged With: Aldo Leopold, Aldo Leopold Legacy Center, Earth Day, Education, Energy, Environment, Heroes, History, Home School, Homer Daehn, Reading Leopold, Sand County Almanac, Wisconsin
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