Interesting concept: Food as medicine. I want to be healthy. I talk to people about nutrition. I read about nutrition. I watch DVDs about nutrition. Some foods just make me happy. I look at them and I feel good, like… Continue Reading
So I asked my students the other day if they agreed with this statement: “We may be living in an ‘information age’ with ‘information overload’” but we are really “living in an age of ‘information scarcity’”—according to Thom Hartmann, anyway. I asked… Continue Reading
I was lucky in having been born the daughter of a dedicated gardener mother (aided always by my father) and the grand daughter of two avid gardening grandfathers. Growing up at 8,000 feet on the front range of Colorado’s Rocky… Continue Reading
The folks at the Community Teaching Garden have done it. They transformed the training ground for heavy equipment operators at Shasta College into a beautifully productive garden within two years. From hard packed clay into dark organic soil, it took… Continue Reading
Shasta College’s third annual Sustainability Conference is scheduled for this Friday, April 22. The free event features speakers from the college and the community addressing a wide variety of subjects related to the environment – from geoengineering and climate change… Continue Reading
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