by Lillian Lake | | Climate Change, Food
I read on the National Geographic website that Canada is richly endowed and unlikely to run out of water. The writer made some good points but failed to consider Canada’s rising population, increase in agricultural production, adverse effects of climate change, and...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Climate Change, Food
Agroecology is a term that’s been around awhile; a scientific discipline developed as an answer to not only counteract the damage caused by industrial farming practices but as a deterrent to causing more harm. It studies how different aspects of the...
by Lillian Lake | | Climate Change, Food, Spiritual
The Lakota phrase Mni Wiconi meaning Water is Life inspires and encourages humanity to protect, honor, and respect the water. Why should we care? In their explanation of the existence of life, scientists, politicians, and religious leaders have failed to understand...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Climate Change, Food
Water is life. Every river, brook, stream, lake, sea, and ocean is essential to all life and from which we get all life. Watching a stream as it travels, you can see how humble it is, and yet, it carries minerals, sticks, leaves, and assists fish and frogs. Water...
by Lillian Lake | | Climate Change, Farms, Food
We are shown through the world news outlets and social media that the Amazon forest is burning. The vast acreage of the Amazon forest has been burning for a very long time. Yet it took a tweet from a forest native to go viral in order to get people’s attention. The...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Climate Change, Food
In spite of the several Northeasters we’ve recently had here in New England, I noticed when I was out for walks between storms; tree buds were beginning to swell. I’m pretty sure I saw a pregnant doe. Out in my backyard, birds are showing signs of being twitter-pated....