Because you are 'Green' doesn't mean you have to love wind farmsIndustrial wind farms, like the Cape Wind project, are on the rise and along with them public protest and opposition. Is it anti-environnmental to even question much less object? Not at all. In fact, questioning wind power does not mean anti-environment and in fa... More..
A Tribute to A Fire ManChris Pickford was a Fireman or as he would have said a Fire Man. I didn't know him. But I met him today in the faces and in the words of those he loved and had come to honor him. And in the smile and in the strength of his grieving mother's face when I released a red-tailed hawk back to the wild in his... More..
Running Away with the CircusBack in 1977 my husband Glen and I ran away with a circus and met the most wholesome, generous and mentally healthy people of our lives. No wonder we all want to run away with the circus. It isn't just a kid thing. It is a freedom of life, choice, imagination, magic and love thing.Big John Strong a... More..
The Ancient Art of FalconryFalconry, hunting with birds of prey, now more of an art than a necessity, has been practiced for over four thousand years. At first, it was a way to bring home a fresh meal that would otherwise have to be purchased from the market where it was often rancid (hence the addition of spices.).Today, it ... More..
Environmental InjusticeJim Gordon's Energy Management Inc., the developer of the Cape Wind project, knows no bounds when it comes to energy development. While he and his thirty something year old company hide behind the development of America's first and largest off-shore wind farm saying it will lessen our dependence on foss... More..
Eagles: Gone With The Wind?Across the globe a new threat to eagles is quickly replacing shooting, poisoning, trapping and electrocution by power lines. The traditional Big Four has a new 'kid on the block'; Industrial Wind Farms.Thousands of eagles are being killed by turbine blades every year all over the world and that numb... More..
Environmental InjusticeThe Chelsea Collaborative is fighting back! They are fighting what appears to be an unlikely candidate, energy developer Jim Gordon of Energy Management Inc and the Cape Wind project, who is being called, by some, an environmental hero; to keep a polluting fossil fuel burning power plant out of their al... More..
Why planting trees is great for the atmosphereFear of Global Warming, dependence on foreign oil and rising electric rates have made us feel helpless and prompted complicated, controversial, community dividing and expensive experimental solutions but there is one solution so simple and doable that is often missed.Plant trees.T... More..
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