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Organic is not just for your food

It’s easy to let so old habits go unexamined… like buying a Christmas tree. If someone asked me how I would feel about putting an object larger than just about anything I own except my car into the middle of … Continue reading

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Six ways (you might not have thought of) to lighten your footprint at home

I think of my environmental practices in two categories: things I do to protect the health of my family and things I do for the planet. Since “we all live downstream” these two categories certainly overlap… buying organic helps my … Continue reading

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Teaching Love, Not Fear

Environmental education in our school system often leads with fear. Images of clear-cut forests, shrinking ice caps and rising oceans are offered with the well-intentioned hope our children will grow to protect the natural world. Instead, like many of us, … Continue reading

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