A friend made this post on Tumblr a couple of weeks ago. It’s been tugging at my heartstrings ever since. If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become…
conservation
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Support Farmers’ Markets: Buy Local
Over the past year, I’ve slowly shifted my food purchasing to 99% organic. I started slowly by seeking organic food at my regular groceries. Eventually I was disappointed with the limited options at the big name stores and tried local natural food stores. At these…
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Volunteering Matters: Apshawa Preserve
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. —Hermann Hess On Sunday, I headed into…
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Volunteering Matters: Deer Exclosure at Apshawa Preserve
Volunteering Matters is an ongoing series where I share photographs & thoughts regarding my favourite volunteer projects. Volunteering is an important part of my life. I’m always looking for ways to volunteer my time & energy to good, fulfilling causes. While it can be difficult…
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Celebrate Earth Day — April 22nd & Every Day
Watch this: The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo. Do this: Demand Sustainably Caught, Harvested, & Created Products Buy Local, Support Farmer’s Markets Recycle Ride a Bike, Take a Bus, Walk Grow Your Own Vegetables Start a Compost Pile Educate Yourself Use Reusable Shopping Bags…
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Book Review & Giveaway: Radio Shangri-La
Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a mid-life crisis when a chance encounter led her to the adventure of a lifetime. Leaving behind her job in public radio and her life in Los Angeles, she moved to the tiny Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan to…
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Volunteering Matters: Apshawa Preserve for NJCF
Preface: Volunteering Matters is an ongoing series. In this series, I share photographs & thoughts regarding my favourite volunteer projects. Volunteering is an important part of my life. I’m always looking for ways to volunteer my time & energy to good causes. Because I am…
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Conservation & Zoology
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. —Albert Einstein For as long as I can remember, I have absolutely loved to visit zoos & aquariums. My…
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The Gulf Oil Spill
How is it possible that humans killed in excess of one hundred million fellow humans in the twentieth century alone? Humans inflicting pain of such magnitude on one another is beyond anything you can imagine and that’s not taking into account the mental, emotional, and…