ShareUnderstatement of the Year: It’s been a chaotic 2 weeks. 2 Tuesdays ago I passed 2 anniversaries: that of funding my Kickstarter publishing project and 6 years since losing Kevin. Amongst the emotions of that anniversary I become deeply immersed in a grassroots pipeline prevention (sounds much better than ant-pipeline, right?) movement in my home county of Lancaster,
Share“Some religious institutions and belief systems resists and distrust the suggestion that nature and spirit are related. Suspicious of environmentalism as an ersatz religion, they perceive a creeping, cultural animism. This belief, which runs deep in American culture, is perhaps one of the least acknowledged but most important barriers between children and nature.” ~Richard Louv
ShareI walked down there tonight. Down to the covered bridge that will be within feet of the pipeline construction zone if the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline project is approved by FERC. I stood there, with my dog, imagining what it would look like with a 125-foot wide swatch of land is cut through this vegetation. I
ShareShared with Permission from Kevin L. Brown with the Bradford County Conservation District: We are far from doing any official work on pipeline effects on crop yields. However, I have had several calls inviting us in to look at what has already happened on several farms. I think that you said there were some meetings
ShareLast evening I was pleasantly surprised to find nearly 50 people at our local West Hempfield Township meeting in Lancaster County, PA. I had been working with Ron Youtz, township manager, for several weeks, determining the best time to hold a Q&A session for residents regarding the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline project that is being planned