Two years ago I attended the first conference on Your Brain on the Ocean, the brainchild of ocean champion and sea turtle expert Dr Wallace J. Nichols. I was struck by the powerful message that kept coming back. We love our oceans, it’s ingrained in our brains. The sound and sight of the ocean soothes our bodies. We [...]
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Do you ever wonder what happens to a plastic bottle once it’s empty, drunk, enjoyed to the last drop? If all goes well it goes to a recycling facility and finds a new life as a different object. That’s the happy princess ending. If all goes wrong it goes to the dump or even worse, [...]
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Green news! This week, I started writing for the San Francisco Examiner as one of their green parenting specialists. Check out my Examiner page here. My first article covered sustainable fish sticks, a topic I had no idea depleted the oceans until now. In the next few weeks, I intend to concentrate on holiday topics [...]
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Potrero Nuevo Farm is a newcomer in Half Moon Bay’s agricultural landscape. Not even two years old, it has already accomplished a lot and promises lots more in the field of sustainable farming and living. An offspring of the Potrero Nuevo Fund, a foundation that supports community based organizations, the farm is a slice of [...]
more »Last week, my good friend Susan Silber from Safe Routes to School Transform introduced me by email to Damien Raffa. Together with Barbara Corff, Damien co-founded Urbia Adventure League, an outdoor treasure hunt that rolled out last weekend. On Saturday June 13, at the foot of the 16th avenue & Moraga mosaic stairs, Damien and [...]
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