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Home: Settled In For Our Second Ten

They gave us six months. That’s what I heard years later from the long-time residents along our road who watched us renovate the old...

Water Wealth: Our Blue Gold

Will there be enough to go around in tomorrow’s world? How to have adequate water for all who need it on the global scale...

Garden Debriefing: Some Wins, Some Losses, and Lessons Learned

Last night’s hard freeze in mid-October abruptly ended our hope that we might watch our visiting grand-daughters pick the last of this summer’s green...

Think Globally, Celebrate Locally: Floyd’s Sustainability Festival

The first community project for the new southwest Virginia grassroots organization, SustainFloyd, was to organize a local action towards Bill McKibben’s global efforts to...

Handing Off the Future: What Will We Leave Behind?

I lift two heavy buckets of green beans fresh from the garden up onto the kitchen sink. The knees of my old worn khakis are...

Small Gestures Carry Big Message

It was only after we moved from the big city of Birmingham to the small town of Wytheville in the mid 70s that I...