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Bringing Our Feelings Into The Work Of Changing The World
by Elizabeth Sawin
— January 20, 2004 —
A Brazilian friend of mine has created a slideshow out of images of the Earth and its life. The other week, at a training session for environmental leaders, I had a chance to watch it.
Amalia’s slides took us to the base of towering mountains and over endless glittering oceans to see sunlight flashing through [...]
Climate Change Hits The Oil Industry
by Elizabeth Sawin
— September 4, 2003 —
Never mind the polar bear, migratory sea birds, and residents of low-lying islands. Climate change is now affecting the oil industry.
Finally. A closed feedback loop in the human-climate system.
The first part of this story is familiar and isn’t a feedback loop at all. It’s a chain of cause and effect that starts with human [...]
Sustainable Agriculture for Midsized Farms
by Hal Hamilton
— August 2003 —
How can sustainable agriculture gain greater traction, particularly for midrange farmers?
Although small farms, particularly those around metropolitan regions, are enjoying resurgence in recent years, the midrange of agriculture is stuck in conventional commodity production. These midrange farms are usually too big to market products directly to consumers and too small to compete in commodity markets.
In [...]
Seeing Possibilities
by Elizabeth Sawin
— July 6, 2003 —
My neighbors’ daughter has been home on a break between a college semester and study in Brazil. She’s a beautiful young woman, and I am almost as enthralled with her as my two little girls are. She moves around from one odd job to the next – painting a house, moving furniture – wrapped [...]
Speeding Through a School Zone
by Elizabeth Sawin
— June 4, 2003 —
It is easy to see the assumptions of previous eras. They stand out so clearly.
“Kings are divine.”
“Women are too dim-witted to vote.”
“Slaves are sub-human property.”
It is much harder to see the assumptions of our own time, but as an old assumption begins to loose some of its power to explain the world, it becomes [...]
