Am I a bad person if I don’t always buy organic?
Yesterday, I didn’t order my Thanksgiving turkey. The yellow sticky note had been sitting on the kitchen counter — and then hidden on my desk when I didn’t want to hear my husband ask again “have you called this guy back yet?”— for several weeks before I finally summoned the courage to call the friendly farmer in the ramshackle house surrounded by happily grazing … Continue reading Am I a bad person if I don’t always buy organic?
Hooray for hatchlings: baby sea turtles make it to the sea
Summer may be over, but its sea turtles live on. At least loggerhead turtles on North Carolina’s Ocracoke Island do. Loggerheads are a threatened species in the southeastern United States, but the National Park Service reported a record number of sea turtle nests this summer on Ocracoke Island (which is part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore). I was lucky enough to see one … Continue reading Hooray for hatchlings: baby sea turtles make it to the sea
Water ways
Following a raindrop… Farming for wildlife… Tracking pollution…. Check out my first three posts as part of The Downstream Project’s (TDP) multimedia team, blogging regularly about conservation in the Shenandoah Valley, Chesapeake Bay and surrounding watersheds. Continue reading Water ways
The price we pay
The irony was indeed cruel. My article on Obamacare and job lock had just been published in Pacific Standard. In it, I examined some of the economic research showing that, under the current system of health care, many Americans work in their jobs only for the health insurance. I shared some of my own experience making the leap from full time job to freelance consultant … Continue reading The price we pay
In case you missed it the first time
Yay to Ecowatch for featuring my recent blog post on laundry detergent on their front page. Continue reading In case you missed it the first time