Sustainability column articles published in the Mt. Shasta Herald
Pamela Neronha: People need jobs and opportunities that are intentional, self-fulfilling, and evolutionary. Growth is good if it is compatible with natural capital, and indeed necessary for community sustainability.
Molly Brown: Five principles that communities (and individuals) can adopt to create cultures of longevity and justice, which help everyone to live longer and healthier lives.
Michelle Berditschevsky: We humans seem to need this annual reminder in order to appreciate our life-support system in all its magnificence and to face what we are doing to the earth, including “the degradation of ecosystems, mass extinction of species, and global climate change.”
Pamela Neronha: One of the challenges any community has is facing the fact that individuals in a community often lack a shared vision and goals; that we have mental models that prevent us from dreaming that vision into reality. We put 90% of our efforts into implementation, frequently promoting action of a policy that is not a shared vision.
Arielle Halpern: Rivers meander through towns, parks, and states, careless of who administers the land on which they run. Our forests and watersheds predate the advent of jurisdictional boundaries. So, why should we approach land management in a way that acknowledges the boundaries but not the landscape?
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...
