Marion, Author at Transition Town Media

Healthy Soil: Essential to Ecosystems and Climate

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Ecosystems help regulate climate. A thriving ecosystem is dependent on healthy soil, which supports and maintains diversity of life on earth. There are many examples throughout history of civilization collapse, due in part to poor soil management. Today, because our soils are being damaged by human activities, we are dangerously close to disrupting the delicate balance that sustains life. Soil’s ecosystem…

Shale Gas Fracking: Impacts on People, Climate and Environment

Posted on November 30, 2018

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What is natural gas fracking? What is shale gas? Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) extracts shale gas by injecting millions of gallons of water containing toxic chemicals and sand at very high pressure into a borehole to create multiple fractures in rock formations to allow gas to escape. Several boreholes, ranging from one to two miles deep, are drilled from one well…

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A New Look at Climate Change

Posted on November 30, 2018

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What if our approach to climate change is incomplete or wrong? I just read Climate: A New Story by Charles Eisenstein and was so impressed that I had to immediately write about it! Eisenstein offers new thinking on the cause of climate disruption as well as how to heal the planet. He is an original out-of-the-box thinker and does not…

It’s a Leaf!

Posted on January 18, 2015

by Marion

No, not that leaf. A Nissan Leaf! I’m finally totally green. Beginning in 2009, I made a ton of lifestyle changes. Then last year I added solar panels to my roof. This year it’s an electric car—the Nissan Leaf! It’s not a hybrid—it’s 100% electric. The Leaf has a 6 KW Quick Charge port and a normal charge/trickle charge port….

The Need for Personal Resilience

Posted on October 7, 2014

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As our world continues to unwind, the need for personal resilience becomes increasingly important. One of the steps to personal resilience is creating balance in your life–a balance between doing and being. Doing is outer focused, active and task-oriented. Being is inner focused, receptive and relationship-oriented. Unfortunately, our culture has deteriorated into an extremely unhealthy imbalance between the two. Life…

Healthy Soil: Essential to Ecosystems and Climate

Shale Gas Fracking: Impacts on People, Climate and Environment

A New Look at Climate Change

It’s a Leaf!

The Need for Personal Resilience

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