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… »