By Daphne Bishop The people at RuralVotes work for progress. We strive to create a better future for our communities and are actively engaged in the world around us. We write about seemingly intractable problems and highlight people who are finding innovative solutions. Sometimes, we discover that our words and our efforts join a larger [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2010 by Debby
Filed under: Climate Change, Climate Change Legislation, Global Warming, The Environment, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Heading out to a meeting I knew would start way later than announced, I grabbed the March 30 issue of the New Yorker to keep my mind occupied and my prefrontal cortex from getting angry while I waited. [Note: The reference to the site of anger in the brain is an [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Agriculture, Food Safety, Genetically modified foods, The Environment | No Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. —Albert Einstein Al Gore, in an op-ed piece in the February 28 New York Times, gives us a briefing on climate change. If this doesn’t brace you for the phone calls I’ll ask you [...]
Posted on March 1st, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Climate Change, Climate Change Legislation, Global Warming, Senate, The Environment | 3 Comments »
By Al Cross New Environmental Protection Agency analysis shows higher and more widespread income potential for agriculture from climate-change legislation. Farmers could receive $1.2 billion of initial income benefits from the Senate bill and potentially $18 billion over time, Ken Anderson of Brownfield reports. The analysis, conducted by researchers from the Nicholas Institute for Environmental [...]
Posted on October 28th, 2009 by Debby
Filed under: Climate Change, EPA, Environment, Farms & Farmers, Rural Issues, Rural Life, Rural Urban Partnerships, The Environment, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
By Al Cross At the next-to-last scheduled forum on the Obama administration’s Rural Tour, no one mentioned the cap-and-trade bill aimed at limiting climate change — until Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who is making all the tour’s stops, brought it up in a briefing with reporters after a community forum at the Scottsbluff National [...]
Posted on September 29th, 2009 by Debby
Filed under: Agriculture, Cabinet, Climate Change, Farms & Farmers, Global Warming, Rural Issues, The Environment, USDA, Uncategorized | No Comments »
by Al Cross Will baby boomers “constitute the last generation of Americans to share an intimate, familial attachment to the land and water,” as suggested by Richard Louv in his book Last Child in the Woods? Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times ponders that question after a hike with his daughter, cut short by [...]
Posted on August 5th, 2009 by Debby
Filed under: Agri-tourism, Conservation, Rural Life, Rural Urban Partnerships, The Environment, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Photo: popinjaykev / flickr A Cambridge, Massachusetts company wants to build a 47-megawatt biomass-fired power electric generating plant in the Western Massachusetts city of Greenfield. The head of the company says it could bring hundreds of jobs to this job-hungry area during the construction and operation of the plant. In this [...]
Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Environment, The Environment | 16 Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Wikipedia, the online user-created encyclopedia, says it ain’t necessarily so, but it makes a good lead to this essay, so I’ll say it anyway: An old Chinese curse says, “May you live in interesting times.” So sure was I that the attribution to the Chinese was accurate, that I went to [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2009 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Agriculture, Buy Local, Conservation, Economic crisis: Global, Economic crisis: US, Energy Savings, Environment, Fiscal Crisis, The Environment, spirituality and politics | No Comments »
by Bob Massie As Barack Obama prepares to tackle the vast problems ahead for America, he has consistently made two bold proposals. First, he intends to make an immense investment in infrastructure – roads, bridges, railways — to jump-start jobs. Second, he plans to boost clean green technologies to make up for the squandered [...]
Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Luke
Filed under: Conservation, Energy Savings, The Environment | 3 Comments »
TB40 is going to be bringing some new voices out to play. The following is a guest post from J. Marcus. Enjoy! – TJR Look, I’m not going to go out of my way to slander the recent triumph of the environment over big business in Florida. Charlie Crist deserves some credit for this. Hell, [...]
Posted on July 1st, 2008 by tracyrusso
Filed under: The Environment | 6 Comments »
