For Earth Day, I wrote a newspaper article about Bluffton University’s Sustainability Club. The students got a campus restaurant to ban non-biodegradable plastic straws, they are lobbying for food composting at the cafeteria, they are proposing an “Energy Savings Challenge” … Continue reading →
I attended a keynote speech at a Criminal Justice Education Conference at Ohio Northern University. Representative Robert Cupp said the House was working on a bill to make 4th and 5th degree felonies misdemeanors in some cases that involved drugs … Continue reading →
Just this week I interviewed a woman who came to the U.S. from Jalisco, Mexico in 1999. At the time, she was a 23-year-old single mother of two young children, and her husband had left them. As with many place … Continue reading →
While the other campaigns were doing the $1,000 a plate fundraisers, and such, I was doing a $1.29 McDouble and passing out campaign literature in the Ottawa, Ohio, McDonald’s one Friday night recently. It was also here that I met … Continue reading →
I was reading part of this book tonight for research. It noted that in the early 1980s, only 18,000 acres of old growth redwood forests in California were left — down from a high of 200,000 acres. (And the guess … Continue reading →
Brandon Fitzimmons was just back from the southern border when I met with him. Mr. Fizimmons works with a Jesuit non-profit that has set up a Soup Kitchen and shelters for immigrants stuck in Mexico, trying to get into America. … Continue reading →
“Leave the driving to us…” I was readin part of the book A Century of Graphic Design this morning. In a section titled: Design for Transportation, it noted how one transportation company wanted to portray their mode of transportation as … Continue reading →
This book notes that we need a “…plant-soil partnership that improves the productive and protective qualities of the farm.” I recently interviewed a philosophy professor at Ohio Northern University who teaches a “Food Ethics” class and questions whether this is … Continue reading →
Corn is the most produced crop in America, coming in at about $24 billion a year. There are a significant amount of U.S. government subsidies for growing corn. This, for one, creates an unfair advantage against small farmers in other … Continue reading →
Jesus said: “And if you give even a cup of cold water to one of the least of my followers, you will surely be rewarded…” This National Geographic magazine notes, among a whole lot of things, that one in eight … Continue reading →