I’m not going to remind you to drag the recycling to the curb. I’m not going to urge you to buy compact fluorescent bulbs. Okay, I might suggest you consider powering your own website or blog with renewable energy. But you know all that stuff. I want you to consider going green on the inside. What? No, you don’t need to drink green beer or ingest algae. My whole premise for this blog is that by meditating on the gifts of our amazing planet, we become more deeply connected to her. By focusing on the health of robins and frogs and even dandelions, we can grow a true spiritual appreciation for our earth.
Continue reading...13. January 2009
Several times a month, I look out my windows in the early morning and see a bright red tugboat marking time in the bay below me. It has spent the night here, tethered to a raft of floating logs—surely more than a thousand mature Douglas fir trees, freshly taken from the forests of the Olympic Mountains. Now I do believe in controlled, sustainable harvest of forests with replanting in mixed species to maintain bio-diversity. I do not support clear cutting, which leaves a scarred, ugly terrain subject to erosion and landslides. But these logs are on their way from Port Angeles, Washington to Tacoma, and then onto a freighter bound for Asia. (I am acquainted with a local tugboat captain, which is how I know this.)
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22. April 2009
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