We attended a conference on “Peak Oil” at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio today. The conference focused on the societal shift that needs to happen now that we’re now on the verge of peak oil production worldwide, and we … Continue reading
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Interviewed Frank Grieshop on his farm in Russia, Ohio today. Frank built his home here for a mere $6,000, and it is one of the most energy efficient we’ve seen. It was built into the side of a hill for … Continue reading
I was the featured speaker at Dan Kremer’s “Eat Food For Life” Organic Farm Festival in Yorkshire, Ohio today. I said several years ago we interviewed professor David Orr who is the head of Oberlin College’s Environmental Science Department and … Continue reading
We’ve headed into Iowa, where we stopped in Newton. There I interviewed Fr. Ernie Braida who has helped coordinate a Sister Church program with a church in El Salvador. He said they regularly send parishioners (including medical personnel) to help … Continue reading
An article ran in Sterling, Colorado’s Journal Advocate yesterday about the campaign. It noted that I said to curb greenhouse gas pollution, we need to cut back on consumer purchases. That is, so much energy is used to manufacture products. … Continue reading
A few weeks back, I got a case of minor heat stroke and dehydration. In addition, I picked up the flu — as we were going through the desert in Nevada. We don’t use air conditioning in the campaign vehicle, … Continue reading
We continued down Highway 95, driving through more desert, more heat (temperatures around 100 today), and into Yuma, Arizona, near the Mexican border. This caps an almost 1,400 mile ‘Hard Ride of 95’ journey for us, and it was now … Continue reading
While in Moscow, Idaho I interviewed Brad Jaeckel who teaches a course on Organic Farming (and runs a 3 acre organic farm Community Sponsored Agriculture project) for Washington State University here. He said there has been a movement in the … Continue reading
I interviewed Tim Aldrich, who is retired after working for 37 years in the U.S. Forest Service Administration. He said the 1960s were a pivotal time for the environment, because prior to then there was almost unchecked logging, mining, and … Continue reading
We stopped in Kalispell, Montana where we interviewed Tierney Chabot and her mom Therese. Therese got Tierney, now 22, involved with Regnum Christi — an arm of the Catholic Church that takes faith very seriously. Tierney has been involved with … Continue reading