What a week!  and it was only two days of classes!

I hope you enjoyed meeting Daragh and Gene - two incredibly important people in our watershed and for our watershed!

Gene was from the societal perspective and Daragh the environmental science - building in a floodplain doesn't make sense and male small mouth bass with eggs in their testes also doesn't make sense!

What to do?

Before

After

When Gene showed these photos to the Noble County surveyor at the time he said the after photo was just what he wanted - to clean the creek for the farmers so there wouldn't be flooding....

There are always two sides to the coin.

But not really.  Either for ecosystem destruction or for the fish!  

And now they say all plastic even if they say its safe can emit estrogenic activity (EA) but this article says there is a solution!

"Our data suggest that EA-free plastic products exposed to common-use stresses and extracted by saline and ethanol solvents could be cost-effectively made on a commercial scale and thereby eliminate a potential health risk posed by most currently available plastic products that leach chemicals having EA into food products."

Now how do we "educate" those who don't want to spend the extra cost to make these safer products?  Do we produce another set of principles such as COMMONS PRINCIPLES FOR ALTERNATIVES ASSESSMENT? How can we get these regulated?

Or is our job to educate the consumer like Annie Leonard with her Story of Stuff project is doing a fine job at but how do we reach out side the "choir"?

And then Waterlife - breathtaking beautiful and tragic - if I only had more time in the day, less responsibilities, more money - but I do have gumption, passion, desire, education, woo, and wisdom.

Thanks for being great thinkers and help me educate the proletariat!  (Do we need to get rid of capitalism?)

Doggone brain - too much thinking - need some hope!  Thank God for the internet and a local group of people who are doing good things to get the community pushing towards resilience and less impact while eating good food, hearing good music and hoping for a great future!

http://www.themindfulword.org/2013/hope-for-the-environment/

http://www.goshenfarmersmarket.org/bounty/  Hope to see you at one of the events!

Now I'm off to be part of this divestment discussion at Goshen College!