Angelina Cook: Of the top 100 ways human’s can draw GHG’s out of the atmosphere, reducing food waste ranks as the 3rd most powerful solution.

Jane Seeley: in the interest of saving the genetic diversity, creating community self-reliance, saving money, and creating new varieties adapted to your own growing conditions and tastes, learning how to save seeds is essential and fun.

Wayne Kessler: Schools could improve student performance by increasing the nutrition in breakfasts and lunches. Scientific studies have linked increases in student health and performance with nutritious school meals.

Francis Mangels: If you have space to grow, the time is now to order seeds!

Trebbe Johnson: Measuring is as futile as trying to identify individual droplets of water in a wave rushing to shore...

Molly Brown: We may not see the full flowering of these values in 2018, but through our actions, new buds and branches of a life-sustaining society will sprout and grow—even rapidly—in the coming years.

Molly Brown: Turning over editorial coordination for this column to the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center for the new year...