a journal of reflective environmental practice
Originally posted on June 13, 2016 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain In the wake of an unprecedented number of extreme weather events in the last several years, Weather Gone Wild explores the significance of these events as well as strategies we could employ in order to mitigate them. Although each weather event…
Originally posted on August 31, 2015 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain In The Last Season, documentary filmmaker Sara Dosa and her crew introduce us to the world of matsutake mushroom hunting near the tiny town of Chemult, Oregon (see trailer below). The autumnal ritual…
Originally posted on March 31, 2015 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain Like many environmentalists, I am ambivalent about dams. I appreciate them as a relatively “green” source of electricity compared to coal-fired power plants, but I wonder whether the benefit outweighs the cost…
Originally posted on December 29, 2014 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain With the recent news out of New York State regarding a statewide ban on natural gas fracking, I am excited to share an interview with the director and producer of the documentary…
Originally posted on November 25, 2010 by Hanna Wheeler It started with a question. One of Laurette Rogers’s fourth-graders asked how they could save endangered species. Rogers knew she needed a real answer, so she and her students started researching. They teamed…
