ESP

02/03/2014

Food for thought.....

"The food movement is all about connecting the dots. Both the farm workers and the fast food workers are very important in the food system."

01/31/2014

And on another note, read this...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brooke-williams/metanoia-ted-turner-and-e_b_4691542.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

Metanoia. The word can mean a "profound, usually spiritual transformation; or simply a change of mind. All of which made sense to me while reading Last Stand, Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet.

01/31/2014

If you aren't sure what you want to do with your ESP studies, here's one thought....we need smart, strong, young farmers...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/25/business/the-elders-of-organic-farming.html?_r=0

For nearly a week, two dozen pioneers of sustainable agriculture from the United States and Canada shared decades’ worth of stories, secrets and anxieties.

01/27/2014

Have you read Patrick Smith's novel, A Land Remembered? This giant of Florida literature and sense of place died today. If you love Florida, make some time to read this incredible book....

http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/a-land-remembered-and-patrick-smith-must-be-included-in-florida-history/1232583

MERRITT ISLANDPatrick Smith glares at the wall in front of him and sucks air through a tube. Old age has claimed him. One day he was a kid running through the swamp. Now he is 84 and lying in a living room bed gasping for breath. Waiting for the story to end, as all of them must do.

01/24/2014

Tomorrow is Arbor Day... In Leon County, we love our trees and would like for you to come out this Saturday to help plant more!

This Saturday @ 9 a.m., J. R. Alford Greenway, 2500 Pedrick Road.

01/21/2014

Dr Chanton sez....read this article and speak out!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/if-you-see-something-say-something.html?_r=0

Climate scientists can no longer stay on the sidelines of the global warming debate.

01/18/2014

So if this is New Jersey's fate, what of north Florida?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/science/earth/grappling-with-sea-level-rise-sooner-not-later.html?_r=0

The numbers are unmistakable, scientists say. Global sea levels are rising, while land along the East Coast is sinking. Just ask Norfolk, Va.

09/15/2011

Check out this article...the weather is getting ready to cool down for backpacking in north Florida!

Readers discuss my column on the need to preserve the wilderness -- and experience it.

09/11/2010

In case we wondering where that oil went....

Scientists on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico are finding a substantial layer of oily sediment stretching for dozens of miles in all directions. Their discovery suggests that a lot of oil from the Deepwater Horizon didn't simply evaporate or dissipate into the water -- it settled to the seafloor.

09/02/2010

NY TImes Climate writer Andrew Revkin says this is the smartest ever...so read it!

08/31/2010

The latest on the oil in the Gulf....

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