I was happy to see this article in the paper yesterday - especially since Thornton Creek is my home watershed.

Thornton Creek breathes again at Northgate

A new channel south of Northgate Mall in Seattle will filter sediment and clean the water of Thornton Creek. A parking lot used to cover this 2.7-acre creek channel ( Read more... )

I am planning on an independent study next quarter to explore the topic of environment and spirituality. I am not exactly sure what my goal is for this study, although very recently I've begun to wonder if there is a thesis topic in it for me. I do want to explore how Paganism might inform or connect with work towards sustainability. I also know ( Read more... )

A Quaker couple, Ruah Swennerfelt and Louis Cox (who also happen to be the staff of the Quaker Earthcare Witness organization) are on a 1400-mile Peace for Earth Walk from Vancouver, B.C, to San Diego, Calif. They have undertaken this walk as a way to meeting with Quaker meetings and churches about how John Woolman's call to live in right ( Read more... )

Yes, there was flooding pretty dang close to my abode yesterday in the Rainstorm of 2007, but we are safe and dry. "Pretty dang close" is a school only four blocks from my house now closed due to flooding - four blocks downhill, might I add. Said school happens to be downhill from most of the neighborhood, next to a creek, and across the street ( Read more... )

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The Sacred Balance: A Visual Celebration of Our Place in Nature
by David Suzuki and Amanda McConnell ( Read more... )