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Community and Sustainability – A Powerful Combination
by Elizabeth Sawin
— May 1, 2003 —
Some years ago, I was part of a group that set out to create a community where we could experiment with sustainable living. One of our first steps was to write down a list of guiding principles. At the top of our list were Community and Sustainability. (The others, if you are curious, were [...]
Between the People and the Government there is a Huge Ethical Gap
by Elizabeth Sawin
— April 1, 2003 —
“Why aren’t they using their words?” a seven-year-old asked her mother today. She was talking about the U.S. bombing of Iraq.”
So begins Talking with Children about War – an article sent home from my daughter’s school.
The little girl’s question is a good one. But I didn’t find the answer in Talking with Children about [...]
A Different Kind of Green Revolution in Cuba
by Hal Hamilton
— March 24, 2003–
I recently returned from a research trip that challenged all conventional assumptions about progress and feeding the world.
Usually conversations about agricultural productivity begin with the Green Revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. During those years farmers of rice, wheat and a few other globally traded crops increased their yields with new seeds and chemicals. Green [...]
Searching for Our Untapped Sources of Power
by Elizabeth Sawin
— March 19, 2003 —
You’ve called your Senators and your Representatives.
Or perhaps you have called the White House (possibly many times).
You have signed petitions.
Or you have stood with groups of your neighbors on a bridge, at city hall, or on your town green, holding up a sign saying NO WAR ON IRAQ.
Perhaps you have taken your children with [...]
Our Burdened Bodies
by Elizabeth Sawin
— March 3, 2003 —
Scientists call the accumulation of chemical contaminants – like PCBs, mercury, and pesticides – within a person’s body their body burden.
Body burden is just a number – a concentration in parts per billion or micrograms per liter. But, technical as it is, the term calls forth an image too; an image of a body [...]
