For the past two years gardening has been my great obsession. I've planted fruit trees, vegetables, and flowers, with great hopes for how beautiful and nourishing they'll be both now and in the years to come. I've even taken on beekeeping and have one beehive near my back porch. The only things missing are chickens. I yearn for a few hens to provide me with fresh eggs as … [Read more...]
Seeking solutions through social enterprise
For more than thirty years prior to 2007, Americans consistently identified nuclear war as their biggest fear. However, since then, North Americans have increasingly singled out the degradation of our environment as their biggest worry. It's a sad irony that the threat from our foreign enemies has been displaced by fear of our own destructive powers. Much of this concern is … [Read more...]