By Leslie Quigley •
October 24, 2009
Today all over the world people are rallying on behalf of Mother Nature. People are holding up signs, waving around banners with the numbers 350! What does 350 mean?
Scientists say that currently we are at 350 parts per million which is the safe limit for humanity. Currently we are at 387 parts per million; of carbon dioxide that has entered into the atmosphere!
Today’s message is about taking action and sending a message. This December the world’s leaders will meet [...]
By Joe Mohr •
September 15, 2009
Health Care and the environment are a mess! Can we be counted on to make them better?…Outlook not so good.
By John Ivanko •
January 14, 2009
Have you ever wondered about Mother Nature’s counterpart, Father Nature?
Look no further than ecologist and artist of nature, Steven Apfelbaum. You could even call him Father Nature. His book, Nature’s Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm (Beacon, 2009), offers an engaging and refreshingly personal narrative of how, as humans, we can reconnect with the land, our community, and our true selves through restoration work on the land. (The book is also available as an eBook.)
“Dirty hands and sweat welded my relationship with Stone Prairie Farm … where I have worked to give nature a second chance,” writes Apfelbaum in the book’s Introduction. “My years of planting, of nurturing the resurgence of prairie, wetland, and forest cover where eroded fields once lay exposed, have created a deep, direct connection to nature.” The land became his home, love, passion, and peace — even the humble beginnings for his livelihood after launching the ecological consulting firm, Applied Ecological Services, Inc., and Taylor Creek Restoration Nurseries — both exemplary triple bottom businesses.
Apfelbaum’s inspiration, like many in his field, was renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold who so clearly enunciated a vision for a land ethic to guide our human relationship with all of nature: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it does otherwise.”
By Reenita Malhotra •
November 11, 2008
Sacred to the Hindus, people often ask me the reason why Tulsi or the Holy Basil is considered holy. The tonic properties of tulsi are believed to enhance longevity and help treat a host of illnesses from asthma and stress.
By Joe Mohr •
April 11, 2008
…while Mother Nature plays the streets for chump change.
Even in this economic down turn, oil companies are still making record profits!
Is it sad that I dream of a day when we are exploited by the renewable energy industry?
