When I am make a sensory memory with a place, I feel connected to it. I remember the images, the feelings. The way the sunlight dappled through the trees stays with me. Watching a tiny snake at a creek side over twenty years ago is still fresh in my mind. Places that we can visit regularly become […]
Nature’s Connections: a photo meditation Read More »
My favorite exhibit at the 2016 Philadelphia Flower Show was in tribute to famed environmental landscape photographer Ansel Adams. This tied nicely into the show’s theme of celebrating 100 years of our nation’s national parks. The Ansel Adams tribute was abstract with flower forms displayed in front of Adams photography. It was an artistic contrast
Ansel Adams Tribute at Philly Flower Show Read More »
Yesterday I attended the 2016 Philadelphia Flower Show. The theme of this year’s show is Celebrating our National Parks. The National Park System turns 100 this year. Many of the exhibits in this year’s show were inspired by one of the national parks. As a result, the exhibits were largely very naturalistic, creating some very
2016 Philadelphia Flower Show Read More »
Uliano, Sophie. (2009). The Gorgeously Green Diet: How to Live Lean and Green. New York: Dutton. ISBN: 978-0-525-95115-5. The title implies a diet book, but it is much more than the typical diet book. It has the usual suspects: eating plans, nicely exercises, allowed and not allowed foods. But the book expands the idea of
Putting Your Life On a Green Diet Read More »
Dickson Wright, Clarissa & Scott, Johnny. (2005). A Greener Life: the modern country compendium. London: David & Charles. North American edition. ISBN: 978-0-7153-2750-0. One of the perennial appeals of the country lifestyle is the sense of living simpler, healthier, more in tune with the planet. The idea of self-sufficiency holds great appeal for those of
Connected. A greener life, rural or not Read More »
Pollan, Michael. (2008). In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. New York: Penguin. ISBN: 978-1-59420-145-5 How much actual food do you eat? That is the somewhat disconcerting premise that underlies this book. Michael Pollan suggests that, because of the great many processed food products with many additives and the policies of seeking to make more
Buchanan, Cathy Marie. (2009). The Day the Falls Stood Still. New York: Voice/Hyperion. ISBN: 978-1-4103-4097-1 320 pages. Fiction: Novel: Historical Fiction Gist A young woman grows to maturity in Niagara Falls during and after World War I. She endures loss in many forms, testing her faith and her strength. Based loosely
Day the Falls Stood Still: Test of Female Faith, Strength Read More »
Goleman, Daniel (2009). Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What we Buy Can Change Everything. New York: Broadway Books. ISBN: 978-0-385-52782-8 “Going Green” is everywhere right now, and nowhere more than in retail stores. Most of the things that we think of as good for the environment, such as recycling and bringing our
Going Green is More Complex Than We’d Like to Think Read More »
Turner, Ted (with Bill Burke). (2008). Call Me Ted. New York: Grand Central Publishing. This is exactly what you want from a good memoir: the book gives you insights into Turner’s life, his perceptions of what happened at various points in his career, and the writing is as unique, direct and as colorful as Turner’s
Ted Turner: An Influence I Never Realized Read More »
