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Call me a hippie, but in my world, it’s always tree-communing season–lush summer, earthy fall, brisk winter, blooming spring. Many years ago, I had a mind-blowing semi-mystical experience hugging a crab-apple tree–I was able to connect to it and sense its power as a growing, living being. I didn’t hear it speak in words, but I did feel its…

It’s Foodie Friday, and with the weather all crisp and cool, my mind is my favorite daily drink–tea.  Not the leaves themselves, though, but the vessel in which we boil the water to make this healing, warming beverage.  What is the best balance of safety (ie no-boiling-water-in-leach-y-plastics, please!), beauty (tea is a pretty drink, after…

Did you see the article in yesterday’s New York Times about the clean water crisis in Charleston, West Virginia and around the country?  Here are some of the alarming take-aways from this exhaustively-reported piece: “Most of today’s water pollution has no scent or taste, many people who consume dangerous chemicals do not realize it, even…

When author Colin Beavan embarked on his plan for a new book, “No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process,” he was one of many take-out-food eating, light-leaving-on, TV-watching, plastic-bag-using New Yorkers. His wife, Michelle…
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