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It’s a Leaf!

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

by Marion

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…

Climate Change–What You Can Do

Posted on September 10, 2014

by Marion

Climate change is all over the news lately as damaging storms, drought, heat waves, and arctic methane release continue to accelerate. More and more people are realizing that we need to take action, as evidenced by the Peoples’ Climate March— the largest climate march in history–which will take place on September 21 as world leaders gather in NYC for the UN Summit on…

Awakening to Our New Reality

Posted on July 11, 2014

by Marion

We all want simple solutions to our current dilemma…buy a new “green” gadget, recycle, pass a law, hope that somebody else will solve it. The fact that climate change, economic instability and resource depletion are gargantuan problems that belong to all of us is definitely not what we want to hear, but it is the reality we’re facing. Our culture’s…

Must We Sacrifice to Save the Planet?

Posted on June 30, 2014

by Marion

By Darcy Dedoes Costello “A bird doesn’t sing because it has the answer, it sings because it has a song” -Maya Angelou I’m not motivated to hang my clothes on the line to dry because that effort may help to conserve energy and thus reduce my environmental impact. I hang those clothes because of how it makes me feel when…

It’s a Leaf!

The Need for Personal Resilience

Climate Change–What You Can Do

Awakening to Our New Reality

Must We Sacrifice to Save the Planet?

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