Easy steps to reduce, reuse and recycle common household garbage

LIVING GREEN, SAVING GREEN
By BOBBI DAWN RIGHTMYER
Global warming and extreme climate change are having a huge impact on the condition of our world, and if we don’t do something soon, our grandchildren and great grandchildren may not have a world to call home. Individually, my family may not have a major effect on global… »

Leery or Weary of Earth Day?

5 reasons to celebrate, and 5 ways to do it
EARTH DAY

By BOBBI BUCHANAN

Maybe you’re a global warming skeptic. Or you don’t like the face of the environmental movement. Not an Al Gore fan? Had your fill of Michael Pollan? That’s okay. You don’t have to be a liberal or buy expensive organic… »

Driven to Slow Down

EARTH DAY

By LESLIE SMITH TOWNSEND
When I was 23, I spent the winter in the stripping room of a tobacco barn in Gravel Switch, Kentucky. The year was 1976. I joined a movement of young people concerned about environmental issues and sustainability who were taking to the hills to start organic gardens and build off-grid homes.
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Students lead charge to change food served in cafeteria

SCHOOL GARDENS

By BOBBI BUCHANAN
How do you get teenagers to eat fresh, healthy food? Give them the tools and support to grow their own.

That’s been the experience of 16-year-old Sam Levin and fellow students involved in Project Sprout, an organic student-run garden on the grounds of Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts…. »

The Last House in Mud

Photo essay by JESSICA DEIS
This summer, my family and I took a road trip to West Virginia to see the devastation of mountaintop removal mining firsthand. The journey was important to the photo documentary I’m working on to draw attention to this violent form of mining.
My husband Brian and I and our two children traveled… »

Saving Mountains

Movement to end MTR gains momentum
By JASON HOWARD
Opponents of mountaintop removal mining have been wary of looking up for even a moment to savor the hard-won victories of the past year. They have stayed busy, fearful of losing ground in the fight to end this form of coal mining, which has destroyed 470 mountains in… »

Going Brown

While the rich go green, the rest of us can jump on this bandwagon
By MICHAEL VAN HALL

I’m looking for people who live in low-cost to no-cost housing, by choice, to feature in my next book, titled Shacking Up. When I asked blog readers to send me leads, I was disappointed with their responses.
I did not… »