alternative energy Co-op
Power. I'm on the Board of this effort to address the renewable
energy needs of the Northeast. Coop Power is a member-owned coop building
community-owned renewable energy assets, like Northeast Biodiesel, a
biodiesel production facility that uses recycled vegetable oil to make
a regionally produced, regionally owned renewable fuel for home heating
and transportation.
alternative media www.orionmagazine.org.
Recipient of the 2004 Utne Independent Press award for General Excellence
- my employer - Orion
magazine works to reconnect human culture
with the natural world, blending scientific thinking with the arts,
engaging the heart and mind, and striving to make clear what we all
have in common.
blogging I am a contributing writer for Grist,
an online environmental news magazine. My latest blog posts are here.
humanitarian www.heifer.org.
Heifer International combats hunger, alleviates poverty, and restores
the environment by providing livestock, training, and related services
to small-scale farmers worldwide.
mushrooms A great
tutorial on growing gourmet mushrooms on logs can be found here.
Here
is my 2002 article for The Natural Farmer on growing mushrooms,
which talks about the hows and whys of natural outdoor culture of mushrooms,
mushroom biology, and medicinal properties of fungi.
Here's my favorite way to enjoy medicinal mushrooms: Wild
Branch Mushrooms offers a mushroom extract that's been boiled in
Vermont sugar maple sap to produce Maple
Medicinals, an absolutely delicious immune system booster you can
enjoy on pancakes.
And this
interview with the world's leading expert on mushroom culture and
biology, "Paul Stamets On The Vast, Intelligent Network Beneath
Our Feet," in the February 2008 issue of The Sun Magazine
is incredibly interesting and a little trippy. Stamets is the author
of Mycelium Running and the classic Growing Gourmet and Medicinal
Mushrooms.
music www.jennygoodspeed.com.
Jenny's debut CD, "Under the Ash Tree," is a delicious mix
of folk, pop, and jazz. It's hard to describe how good this record is.
You just have to listen to it. www.bethamsel.org.
Beth Amsel's music is diverse and revelatory, with influences spanning
classic rock, mid-century pop standards, and early 70's blues influenced
country.
photography www.jasonhouston.com.
A great photographer and fly fisherman who in his spare time is photo
editor of Orion magazine.
power to the people
For my job,
I pilot the Orion Grassroots
Network, which provides services and support to 1,100+ grassroots
groups around North America engaged in ecological, social, and cultural
change.
"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay
our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its
plain."
--Henry David Thoreau