Sustainability
A Letter to Senegal
Dear Senegal, I am writing to thank you. I know it has been a long time since I visited you in 2016 but you changed my life. You inspired me to stand up and take action; something that I have since done. I will forever be grateful for the lessons you taught me and so I wanted to share with you my journey. The journey starts and ends with you.
By Auda Sakho5 years ago in Earth
Children of Earth
Children of Earth....this may sound like something out of a cheesy 90's sci-fi show but I challenge you to think about this just a little bit more. What does it mean? Humans? Animals? Other things that may exist on Earth that we still don't acknowledge?
By Laurynn Torres5 years ago in Earth
Living in joy while loving Mother Earth
Arts, crafts and sewing have played an important role in my life since I was a little kid. I discovered my creativity through sewing when my mom taught me how to create hair scrunchies in the '90s and then I scaled up to make dolls and even clothes. My mom used to say that I was always challenging her when it came to creating certain outfits or dresses. I even designed and sewed my prom dress with the help of my mom. Because of this love and passion of mine, I thought I had to do something and I decided to study fashion design in Puerto Rico.
By Joeanally Gonzalez5 years ago in Earth
Farm Girl in the City
Bye Bye Country Farmer I'm a Vancouver girl who grew up living off the land in the forests of beautiful British Columbia, with my gardener parents and a bunch of siblings. We brought orchard bins of fruit from the Okanagan and canned hundreds of jars each autumn, stored our own root veg in our underground cellar, and bought beans and nuts in bulk to supplement what we didn’t grow ourselves in our abundant garden. As soon as I was able, I made my way to school in the "city", and never looked back.
By Skipper Knudson5 years ago in Earth
The World's Oceans
My passion is the ocean. Since I was a child, I have been fascinated by the sea. I love the ocean smell, the salty tang in the air; the way an ocean can change not just from day to day but from hour to hour. Kevin Costner discovered the moodiness of the sea to his chagrin (and wallet) when producing Seaworld, his disastrous film of an apocalyptical world of water after global warming caused the poles to melt. As he found out, the sea has no mercy for people who take it for granted.
By Michael Trigg5 years ago in Earth
Tending to the Soil
We all need to be active members in taking care of the earth. When I say the earth, I don’t mean the current state of this planet, which has been steeped in a plethora of money and strained through the patriarchy for hundreds of generations. I am talking about the ground beneath our bare feet, the rich earth burying itself under our soles, the soft mud squelching in between our toes. I am talking about the soil.
By Olivia Rose Phipps5 years ago in Earth
Life From the Ground Up
The soil has been amended and tilled. The smell of freshly worked earth is a turn on to me. I eagerly await the day Mother Nature allows me to create my annual masterpiece, my vegetable gardens. I’ve pretty much designed the layout in my head over the winter, taken into consideration crop rotation patterns. Sitting cross legged in the warm earthiness, I go over the rules as vegetables are a bit like high school girls. Potatoes do not like tomatoes. Potatoes don’t like cucumbers. Do not plant beans with onions or beets (I love me some beets). Beans love carrots. Beets love onions and potatoes. Tomatoes love carrots and peas. Beans and cucumbers are not friends. Carrots and onions do well together. Those are the basics and there are more rules. Sounds complicated, but the rules shape the architecture of the gardens.
By Jennifer Jones5 years ago in Earth
