by Katie Conlon | Mar 20, 2017 | Climate, Enviro-Consciousness, Localization, Pollution
Back to the land, and back to nourishing the soil. Self-sufficient organic, localized farming is the direction we collectively need to be heading. Soil provides healthy food full of micronutrients, healthy ecosystems, recharges the water table, filters water, provides...
by Katie Conlon | Mar 11, 2017 | Enviro-Consciousness, Plastic, Pollution
Endocrine disruptors aka plastic everything is no joke. Consumer society has come so far from what it means to be human, to be integrated in the natural life cycles. Plastic is entering foodchains and we are absorbing toxic chemicals from these plastics. If we...
by Katie Conlon | Feb 2, 2017 | Consumption, Enviro-Consciousness, Plastic, Pollution
Recent, disconcerting studies on the state of ocean dystopia: -Plastics taken up in the food chain, and found in fish sold in the supermarket -Baby fish have been found to prefer eating plastic in plastic laden water than their natural food source (like junk food for...
by Katie Conlon | Jan 30, 2017 | Enviro-Consciousness, Localization, Uncategorized
Chado, the way of tea and the art of the tea ceremony, is a way of cultivating the inner and the outer being, the wabi-sabi. The tea house is symbolically a place of peace, neutrality, and contemplation. In warring Japan in centuries past, the tea house served as the...
by Katie Conlon | Dec 8, 2016 | Enviro-Consciousness, Pollution
The only time I really experienced the night sky – stars so big you could grab them – was in the Sahara in northern Mali. The Tuareg people in that region use the stars to guide them as they travel through the desert, under the cool of the night sky....
