Sunflower River is in the news
For those of you who don't read yarrowkat, sunflowerriver, or didn't get an e-mail from me: we've recently had Joy Slagowski, a reporter for a Phoenix area paper called the Daily News-Sun, write an article about Sunflower River for Earth Day:
Foursome enjoys connection with Mother Earth
In that article, I credit Dave Pollard's blog, How to Save the World, with being a turning point in my ecological awakening:Post said his path began as a personal transformation a few years ago, after reading the "How to Save the World" blog of David Pollard, a writer and environmentalist.
"He was doing a lot of writing on intentional communities, social justice, and ecological issues," Post said. "And it struck a chord with me and I decided to manifest the kinds of changes he was advocating in my own life."
I wrote Dave Pollard telling him about the article when it was published:Hello Dave,
I've written you once before, a year or two ago. It was from a different e-mail address than this message.
Roughly three years ago, I started reading your blog and as a result have radically changed my life: changed jobs (out of the financial industry), changed partners (my ex-wife and I were part of consumer culture, and I've distanced myself from it.), and changed the way I look at and relate the world to incoporate a far greater understanding of how my actions impact the environment.
As part of that, I purchased land with 3 other people, formed an intentional community, and began raising livestock and practicing organic gardening.
In that time, I have repeatedly mentioned your blog as my turning point, as the thing that woke me up and set me on the course my life is now on.
Today an article was published about my farm, and in it I credit you with inspiring me to the life changes that caused me to start it. I thought you might be interested to read it:
http://www.yourwestvalley.com/news/food_5888___article.html/water_day.html
Even though you and I have come to different conclusions about what one can or should do about the state of the world, You continue to inspire me with your writing, years past the day I read "The Truth About Nature and How to Save the World" and realized that everything about my life needed to change.
-Alan
Today he wrote me back: Wow! Thank you Alan. I'll mention this in my next 'links of the week' article. Hope we'll meet some day! Cheers from Australia.
/-/ Dave
I'm excited to get a mention in his Links of the Week article, which I always look forward to reading. It is a look at what is going on around the world, and is often extremely inspiring.
I'll post a link to it after he publishes it, but I'll be out of town this weekend, so it will be a bit late.
Color me excited.
Foursome enjoys connection with Mother Earth
In that article, I credit Dave Pollard's blog, How to Save the World, with being a turning point in my ecological awakening:Post said his path began as a personal transformation a few years ago, after reading the "How to Save the World" blog of David Pollard, a writer and environmentalist.
"He was doing a lot of writing on intentional communities, social justice, and ecological issues," Post said. "And it struck a chord with me and I decided to manifest the kinds of changes he was advocating in my own life."
I wrote Dave Pollard telling him about the article when it was published:Hello Dave,
I've written you once before, a year or two ago. It was from a different e-mail address than this message.
Roughly three years ago, I started reading your blog and as a result have radically changed my life: changed jobs (out of the financial industry), changed partners (my ex-wife and I were part of consumer culture, and I've distanced myself from it.), and changed the way I look at and relate the world to incoporate a far greater understanding of how my actions impact the environment.
As part of that, I purchased land with 3 other people, formed an intentional community, and began raising livestock and practicing organic gardening.
In that time, I have repeatedly mentioned your blog as my turning point, as the thing that woke me up and set me on the course my life is now on.
Today an article was published about my farm, and in it I credit you with inspiring me to the life changes that caused me to start it. I thought you might be interested to read it:
http://www.yourwestvalley.com/news/food_5888___article.html/water_day.html
Even though you and I have come to different conclusions about what one can or should do about the state of the world, You continue to inspire me with your writing, years past the day I read "The Truth About Nature and How to Save the World" and realized that everything about my life needed to change.
-Alan
Today he wrote me back: Wow! Thank you Alan. I'll mention this in my next 'links of the week' article. Hope we'll meet some day! Cheers from Australia.
/-/ Dave
I'm excited to get a mention in his Links of the Week article, which I always look forward to reading. It is a look at what is going on around the world, and is often extremely inspiring.
I'll post a link to it after he publishes it, but I'll be out of town this weekend, so it will be a bit late.
Color me excited.