This post includes suggestions for lowering the carbon cost of what we eat. All the food we eat comes with a carbon footprint. According to the New York Times Climate Newsletter, “about a quarter of all the greenhouse gasses emitted each year are a result of how we feed the world.” Another eight percent of […]
Living in Place
Apologizing After Uttering Hurtful Words
Yesterday, I found myself apologizing after uttering hurtful words. Apologizing I was recently asked to speak at a large gathering and in the process, offended someone I knew in the audience. I didn’t know I’d done so until I received an email from her a few days after the fact, telling me what exactly I […]
What Makes For A Great Vacation
I’ve just returned from a seven-day backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon, and can list what makes for a great vacation. Get Away. This requires overcoming my dislike of air travel, but well worth it. To make it more bearable, I fly out of a regional airport that’s easy to drive to and stretch my […]
How to Be Safer on our Public Thoroughfares
When I’m driving down Main Street in Brattleboro, I wish pedestrians would cross at the crosswalk, and when I’m walking down Main Street in Williamsville, I wish drivers would heed the speed limit. I’ve been wishing these things a long time. My first-ever article for the first-ever issue of The Commons lamented the speeding in […]
Cindy Leszczak Grows Tomatoes!
Cindy Leszczak grows tomatoes – about two thousand of them. What was once a way to grow enough to feed her family during a long winter has become a passion for what she calls, “Jewels you can eat.” This year, Cindy’s filled her greenhouse with one-hundred-and-one different varieties, “like the Dalmations,” she says, as if […]
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