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The Calm After the Storm: Reflections on the Gift of Electricity
Friday, June 29th, 10:50 pm. I was lying in bed with my daughter Claire reading her to sleep when the wind started picking up. Claire does not like storms, and her body was alert and tense like a...
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The Sky is Pink: The Truth about Fracking
Josh Fox’s “The Sky Is Pink” is a brilliant, concise and startling short documentary on the truth about fracking and the fate New York awaits. It is worth 18 minutes of your time. Fracking is NOT...
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Is Cheap Natural Gas Worth Poisoning Children?
Is cheap natural gas worth poisoning children? It’s a question we all need to answer truthfully. Especially when it comes from the mouths of children themselves. I met Devon Haas at the Stop the...
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Josh Fox Explains How Fracking is Consuming Our America
At the Frack Attack rally, I caught Josh Fox talking on the sidelines. I am always in awe of his capacity to communicate. He is articulate, accessible, compelling, funny, genuine and spot on. The...
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Calling All “Moms-In-Chief”: The Mothers Project and the Fight to End Fracking
I wasn’t able to listen to the First Lady’s speech the night she delivered it at the Democratic National Convention. My 8-year-old daughter Claire is a night owl who loves to be read to sleep, so we...
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Halloween Candy: On Childhood Joy and GMOs
Another Halloween has come and gone. After hopping from house to house in a celebratory frenzy, our little Ninja Claire came home, plopped on the living room rug and began the ritual carried out for...
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May the Fleece Be With You?
I don’t remember what year it was when I first encountered fleece. What I do remember is that it was love at first wear. Its softness, warmth and lack of itchiness were a godsend to me. Prone to...
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Stepping into The Twilight Zone: Attack of the GMOs
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are always on my radar screen. I’ve understood for some time that genetically engineered food is something I do not want to ingest if I can help it. Keeping them...
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GMO Sugar: How Sweet It Isn’t
Our daughter Claire definitely falls into the category of picky eater. Her sensitivity to taste limits what she eats, and I’m always trying to make the most of the food she’s willing to eat. One of...
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Calling All Angels for Renewable Energy
As spring begins, I am keenly aware of the urgency the renewable energy movement is facing. Fracking is moving at lightening speed across the country and the world, poisoning water, air and, of...
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And We’ve Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden
This garden we are graced to live in, this magical spinning planet we call home, was designed for abundance, designed to provide us with food, clothing and shelter, and, beyond that, beauty and magic....
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Fracking Falls Short of “Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself”
Cove Point LNG export terminal. Coming soon to a Chesapeake Bay near you? In my constant state of vocation evolution, I now find myself focused on getting into places of faith to talk about fracking*,...
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Finding Rachel Carson
I feel as if this is a confession and an embarrassing one at that. I say this because, as a passionate “environmentalist,” I should have already known intimately the work of Rachel Carson. But, in...
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Dominion’s Cove Point: Maryland Walks the Fracking Plank
Excellent article below by my friend and colleague Laurel Peltier that presents a brief and accurate summation of why a liquid natural gas export facility in southern Maryland is bad news for all of...
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