a journal of reflective environmental practice
Originally posted on October 8, 2011 by Hanna Wheeler Image: Julia Shipley grows 50 percent of her diet in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Photo by Hanna Wheeler If chores were a car trip, instead of a process from one end of the barn to…
Originally posted on August 23, 2011 by Hanna Wheeler Connecting school with nature and town has big results In her desk’s side drawer, Principal Dana McCauley keeps a pair of sneakers, an old tee-shirt and jeans. She has to be prepared. At any…
Originally posted on April 28, 2011 by Hanna Wheeler Image: Tom Stearns pictured on the cover of his company’s seed catalog. Photo courtesy of High Mowing Seeds High Mowing Seeds founder and president Tom Stearns knew from a young age that he wanted…
Originally posted on March 20, 2011 by Hanna Wheeler Image: In the act of painting Listening to Second Fork of Cheat River. Photo courtesy of the artist. Ruth Blackwell Rogers describes her painting and environmental activism as “all one thing.” “My paintings have…
Originally posted on February 27, 2011 by Hanna Wheeler What’s the connection between mental health and sustainability? That’s one of the many questions that the growing field of ecopsychology explores. Ecopsychology has gained recognition thanks to the work of psychologist Thomas Doherty of…
Originally posted on December 15, 2010 by Hanna Wheeler Julie Zickefoose is one of the lucky few who are gutsy enough to make a living — and a difference — by doing something they love. She spends most of each day walking,…
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…
Originally posted November 5, 2010 by Hanna Wheeler David Sobel keeps a thick folder of inspirational projects in place in schools around the country. As an educational writer, Senior faculty in the Antioch University New England Education Department and director for the Center for Place-based Eduction,…
Originally posted October 27, 2010 by Hanna Wheeler Jan Reynolds’ photographs and stories whisk you around the world in 80 seconds, but they always bring home a message of sustainability and cultural appreciation. Her adventures include the first circumnavigation of Mount Everest, a…
Originally posted October 20, 2010 Image: “Interpreting Fire Point,” Erika Osborne, digital print of drawing on skin, 20″ x 27″, 2005. Art from this series, “Imprinting Place,” as well as her “Mapping Bodily Connection” series appeared in Whole Terrain’s Volume 18: Boundaries….
