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The Last Tree: Challenges and Opportunities
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Thoughts, ideas and information about creating a healthier relationship with our beautiful planet. Monday, December 9, 2013. What is human activity doing to our planet? Or merely an acceptable alteration. For the sake of our children, and grandchildren, and their children and grandchildren, etc., I think we must ask these questions. I also think that we must reach our own answers. In reaching your answer, here's some information worth considering:. By creating a world that will have less predictable weat...
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The Last Tree: March 2009
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Thoughts, ideas and information about creating a healthier relationship with our beautiful planet. Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Carbon Calculations and Offsets. While I think it's important to reduce our use of fossil fuels, we still live in a society that is entirely dependent on those fossil fuels. And we have to live our lives. This means that sometimes we are going to do things that are not ideal environmentally. But aren't planes terrible for the environment? I ended up at. Where I was able to calcula...
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The Last Tree: May 2009
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Thoughts, ideas and information about creating a healthier relationship with our beautiful planet. Wednesday, May 27, 2009. What better way to reconnect with the land than to grow food! Ayumi and I have planted seeds for zucchini, ensai and chijimina (don't know the English names for the last two! There's something really magical about putting a tiny little seed into the ground and then watching the delicate buds push their way up and out through the soil, growing day by day into a big plant. Here ar...
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The Last Tree: Food Inc.
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Thoughts, ideas and information about creating a healthier relationship with our beautiful planet. Monday, June 15, 2009. The way we eat has changed more in the last fifty years than in the previous ten thousand.". This is the opening line of a new documentary on how food is produced in the United States, focusing particularly on the industrial food system. I've touched on this issue in previous posts (see: " Support Organic. Dec 19, 2008; " Organic: Good for Earth. The Gulf of Mexico. At least that's ho...
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The Last Tree: Support Organic
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Thoughts, ideas and information about creating a healthier relationship with our beautiful planet. Saturday, December 20, 2008. Organic products are becoming increasingly popular. In 1980, the organic food market in the United States was $178 million, but by 2003 it had grown to $10 billion. And it is estimated to be $23 billion for 2008. To small-scale, crop-rotating family farming. During the second half of the 20th century, industrial agriculture became the norm in the United States and other indu...
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The Last Tree: November 2008
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Thoughts, ideas and information about creating a healthier relationship with our beautiful planet. Friday, November 21, 2008. The Beauty of Nature. Maybe you already know what I'm talking about. But if not, you might be able to get a sense of it by spending some time, the more the better, in nature. Try to get as far away as you can, some place where you won't be able to hear a single man-made sound. If you live in the United States, there's a very good chance that you have a National Park. My grandmothe...
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The Last Tree: April 2009
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Thoughts, ideas and information about creating a healthier relationship with our beautiful planet. Monday, April 27, 2009. Journey to the Ants. As I like to learn more about the other creatures with whom we share this planet, I recently read a book about ants, Journey to the Ants. By Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson. It's a 200-page adaptation for the general public of their 700 page 1991 Pullitzer Prize-winning tome, Ants. The solider is on the right- notice the spikes on his back- yikes! View my co...
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The Last Tree: October 2008
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Thoughts, ideas and information about creating a healthier relationship with our beautiful planet. Thursday, October 30, 2008. Most fruits and vegetables at supermarkets in the United States are grown in California, Florida or Washington. In addition to decreasing pollution, buying local also supports small farmers and strengthens rural communities. And local foods are probably going to be fresher, which is one reason that many people believe local foods taste better and are healthier. Another way to buy...
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The Last Tree: December 2008
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Thoughts, ideas and information about creating a healthier relationship with our beautiful planet. Saturday, December 20, 2008. Organic products are becoming increasingly popular. In 1980, the organic food market in the United States was $178 million, but by 2003 it had grown to $10 billion. And it is estimated to be $23 billion for 2008. To small-scale, crop-rotating family farming. During the second half of the 20th century, industrial agriculture became the norm in the United States and other indu...
