A personal quest to promote the use of wind energy and hydrogen technology in the Great Lakes area of the United States. The Great Lakes area is in a unique position to become an energy exporting region through these and other renewable energy technologies.
"One thing that many people do not realize is that states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan are sitting on a gold mine of wind energy potential. Or, more properly, next to the mine. The Great Lakes are probably the area in the USA with the third largest inland wind energy potential. Think of just the nickname for Chicago. "The Windy City". Milwaukee is even windier, I can tell you. Why? Because they sit on the edge of a great flat area where there is both a land-water temperature differential, and a large flat expanse of water that is comparably shallow. Oilrigs certainly operate in deeper waters. And you won't have to construct transmission lines all the way from the plains of Montana to put it to use. The Great Lakes area has an opportunity to get the jump on wind energy's future, if that fact is recognized and exploited. Wind energy means jobs for construction and maintenance workers, thousands of them. Wind energy means leasing rights and extra money for family farmers struggling to make it on agriculture alone. In most cases farmers can grow crops right up to the base of a windmill. The land footprint has a small impact on total farm acreage. Wind energy also means freedom from fluctuating fuel prices. Wind is free. The cost of a barrel of polluting oil can be raised or lowered drastically based on fears or political whims. The potential gains are enormous. We've all seen the flow of good manufacturing jobs out of the area. Well, they can't tell the wind to blow in another country so it's more "convenient" or cheaper to produce. The wind is perfectly happy to whip up opportunities for us right around here. Most of all, because we here in the Great Lakes region have the potential to have a huge positive impact on U.S. energy industry emissions' contribution to global warming."
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After an extensive review of proffessed policy intentions, I will reverse myself and offer my personal endorsement of Democratic Candidate Dennis J. Kucinich for President of the United States.
His environmental policy alone is excellent, but this candidate is on every issue statement I have so far seen solidly for human rights, civil rights, workers' rights, sound environmental and energy policy that will result in a much cleaner and more sustainable economy, support of family sustainable agriculture over industrial agricultural operations, clean water, investment in critical infrastructure, and much, much more. This is a candidate that supports a liveable world for all, and a world at peace. I strongly urge you to review his platform statements at: http://www.kucinich.us
Alternatively, you can view the ten key points of his campaign at: Ten points acrobat
Try this: http://www.presidentmatch.com It will run you through a series of poll questions and then show how close each candidate is to your views.
Anyone interested in interviewing Dennis Kucinich please write to: interviews@kucinich.us
24/7 Dennis Kucinich Internet Radio - Progressive Mojo
MP3 clips of rhetorical history, musicians' songs on the state of politics in the USA, and more:
http://www.benfrank.net/nuke/Free_Peace_mp3s.html
In the Primary, you ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT.
In the General Election, you TAKE WHAT YOU CAN GET!
(Until this one because Dennis Kucinich is going to win!)
Progressive Newswire: http://www.commondreams.org/newswire.htm
"Prayer For America" Speech
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Friday, November 21, 2003
Iceland Hydrogen replacing fossil fuels
Iceland intends to become the world's first hydrogen-based society, becoming fossil fuel free between 2030 and 2050.
"Black" vs. "Green" Hydrogen
Eight of the nation's leading environmental, consumer and public policy organizations have joined together in the Green Hydrogen Coalition to prioritize renewable sources of energy and to challenge the U.S. launch of a "black" hydrogen agenda calling for massive subsidies to the coal and nuclear industries to extract hydrogen. Read a statement of the coalition here.
Another environmental group joins the Green Hydrogen Coalition to support legislative policy that promotes a hydrogen economy based on clean renewable power sources instead of polluting fossil fuel and nuclear technologies. Very appropriately, they are called GRACE (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment)
Thursday, November 20, 2003
Trucking fleets, school districts and diesel vehicle owners in the metro Denver area now have a convenient local source of biodiesel, a renewable vegetable oil-based fuel that could produce significant new revenues for regional farmers. Blue Sun Biodiesel and Shoco Oil, Inc., held the grand opening of Denver’s first retail biodiesel fueling station on Friday, November 14 at Shoco Oil, 5135 E. 74th Avenue in Commerce City.
Click here for NBB news release
Great Lakes Daily News: 17 November 2003
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Prairie plants rescued in farm's twilight
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Only a tiny fraction of the original native grasslands of the Midwest
remain. But in recent years, there's been renewed interest in restoring the
old prairies and creating new ones. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium
(11/17)
Debate over Superfund's future
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For the first time in the Midwest, an old Superfund site has been declared
ready for reuse. But funding questions continue to cloud the future of the
toxic waste clean-up program. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (11/17)
Ann Arbor battles sprawl with greenbelt
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Environmentalists scored a huge victory at the polls earlier this month,
when Ann Arbor, Mich., and its surrounding townships agreed to a tax to
preserve a belt of green space. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (11/17)
EDITORIAL: Play by the rules and end steel tariffs
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Tariffs gave U.S. steel manufacturers a reprieve, but it's time to respect
global trade rules. Source: The Indianapolis Star (11/17)
Lamprey, fishermen not off hook yet
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Whether the results of a study indicating that lake trout succumbed to toxic
chemicals in Lake Ontario can be applied to the other Great Lakes -
especially Lake Michigan - remains questionable. Source: Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel (11/17)
Plaintiffs win a round in shoreline erosion legal battle
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After years of watching Lake Michigan gobble up their shoreline property,
some Berrien County residents are moving closer to collecting damages from
the federal government for their losses. Source: The St. Joseph-Benton
Harbor Herald-Palladium (11/17)
Village pushes for new wetlands fill
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Another controversial wetlands fill is being proposed a few hundred yards
from Lake Michigan - this time by Elk Rapids, Mich., officials. Source:
Traverse City Record-Eagle (11/16)
Gales, storm warnings led to chaos as ships sought shelter
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Things are getting back to normal on the Great Lakes after last week's big
blow scrambled schedules and sent almost the entire Great Lakes fleet to
dock or anchor. Source: The Holland Sentinel (11/16)
Taft to pursue $6B for Great Lakes plan
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Ohio Gov. Bob Taft is urging President Bush to help win congressional
support for a pair of bills that would provide the Great Lakes region with
an unprecedented $6 billion for water restoration programs. Source: The
Toledo Blade (11/15)
McGuinty takes steps to protect province's water
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To help avoid a repeat of the Walkerton tragedy, Ontario's new environment
minister is setting up two key committees that will help the province
protect its sources of drinking water. Source: The Toronto Star (11/14)
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American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy:
Conference Energy Bill: The Glass Is Not Even A Quarter Full
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment:
GRACE JOINS NEW GREEN HYDROGEN COALITION TO CHALLENGE PRESIDENT BUSH'S LAUNCH OF IPHE
Sustainable Forestry and Certification Watch:
Exploring the Frontiers of Forest Certification
Natural Resources Defense Council:
America's Future Under the Energy Bill: More Polluted, Less Secure, says NRDC
Germany's retreat from nuclear energy beginsGermany switched off the first of its 19 nuclear power stations recently, launching what it calls the world's fastest withdrawal from atomic energy — but it's a policy that may still be reversed if the opposition takes power.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-11-18/s_10497.asp
EPA to propose easing rules for radioactive waste
President George W. Bush's administration is considering allowing low-level radioactive waste to be dumped at toxic waste sites and other facilities that currently aren't permitted to receive it.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-11-18/s_10499.asp
14 state attorneys general ask courts to block EPA rule change
More than a dozen state attorneys general sought to block the federal government Monday from implementing a rule change they argued would lead to more air pollution from the nation's power plants.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-11-18/s_10498.asp
Great Lakes Daily News: 18 November 2003
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Coal-plant proposal faces new challenge
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A group of environmentalists filed an appeal Monday to try to reverse the
permit issued for a coal-fired power plant in Elwood, Ill., arguing that the
state did not call for adequate pollution control measures. Source: Chicago
Tribune (11/18)
Smallmouth bass swimming ahead
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The Ohio state legislature seems ready to replace the walleye with the
smallmouth bass as the official state fish, after years of throwing such
bills back in the lake. Source: The Morning Journal (11/18)
14 states file suit in attempt to block E.P.A. rules
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New York, Illinois and Wisconsin were among 14 states that filed papers in
federal court Monday in an effort to stop the Environmental Protection
Agency from introducing a new rule that the states say will seriously weaken
the provisions of the Clean Air Act. Source: The New York Times (11/17)
Historic lighthouse lives on
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The Selkirk lighthouse on Lake Ontario is not very well known as a vacation
spot. But some people find that once they visit they keep coming back.
Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (11/17)
Michigan attempts to control urban sprawl
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Land-use decisions have traditionally been local, but the state of Michigan
is planning to play a bigger role in an effort to concentrate development in
urban areas and stem sprawl. Source: The Jackson Citizen Patriot (11/16)
Mapping the way for ships
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The Saginaw River shipping channel is filling in with silt, but preparations
are underway for a long-awaited dredging of the channel, which hasn't been
maintained to its authorized depth for 20 years. Source: The Bay City Times
(11/16)
'Ontario's West Coast' permanently polluted
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Health officials have declared a string of Lake Huron beaches permanently
unsafe because of E. coli bacteria, making this the first new pollution "hot
spot" on Canada's side of the Great Lakes in nearly 20 years. Source: The
Ottawa Citizen (11/15)
As `public good' changes meaning, eminent domain battles heat up
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Homeowners in a graying, blue-collar suburb that hugs Lake Erie on the west
end of Cleveland are fighting a proposal that would use the government's
power of eminent domain to obtain their property for private development.
Source: The Macon Telegraph (11/14)
Lake levels vary over the years
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Lake Michigan water levels have falled by more than four feet since 1997,
their fastest drop on record, and could approach an all-time low this
winter. Source: WDNU-TV (11/14)
Lake trout limits may be adjusted
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources may relax lake trout
regulations for Munising Bay early next year, once sportfishing catch quotas
can be determined from computer models. Source: The Munising Mining Journal
(11/13)
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Global Resource Action Center for the Environment:
Proposed Energy Bill Favors Oil, Coal, and Nuclear Industries With Little Regard for Consumers and the Environment
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution:
New Theory on Seafloor Formation
Business, labor, NGOs, and government find common ground to promote corporate social responsibility
Americans remain deeply divided over globalization and, in particular, the roles and responsibilities of multinational corporations. Rarely can representatives of the business, NGO, labor communities, and government officials find common ground on even some of these issues.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-11-19/s_10321.asp
U.S. House passes energy bill with tax breaks
The U.S. House approved a broad energy bill Tuesday with $23.5 billion in tax breaks, despite complaints from Democrats that it would protect petrochemical companies from being sued for contaminating water in thousands of cities.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-11-19/s_10542.asp
South America's wild Patagonian glaciers are melting faster than in previous years, say scientists
When Borge Ousland and Thomas Ulrich trekked across the vast and wild Patagonian glaciers, they braved heavy snows and bitterly cold temperatures ? nothing to make them think the ice was melting beneath their feet.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-11-19/s_10511.asp
Great Lakes Daily News: 19 November 2003
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Chemical spill reveals need for Lake St. Clair monitoring
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Members of the Macomb/St. Clair Inter-County Watershed Management Advisory
Group want to take the lead in monitoring what goes into area waterways.
Source: The Macomb Daily (11/19)
Blackout report expected to blame Ohio utility
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A report to be released Wednesday by a joint U.S.-Canadian task force names
an Ohio-based utility, FirstEnergy, as the chief culprit in North America's
worst blackout. Source: CBC News (11/19)
Volunteers to guard canal waters
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Volunteers concerned about Brockport Creek have formed Erie Canalkeeper, the
109th alliance member of the national Waterkeeper Alliance, and the first on
the southern shore of Lake Ontario. Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
(11/19)
Sturgeon Bay considers possible uses for Canal Property
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Sturgeon Bay, Wis., officials want to take another look at possible uses for
a unique wetland on Lake Michigan known as the Canal Property before moving
ahead with plans to preserve it. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (11/19)
East Tawas to explore cruise ship potential
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Local officials have approved a grant application for a $53,000 study to
determine the feasibility of bringing cruise ships into Tawas Bay on Lake
Huron. Source: Iosco County News-Herald (11/18)
New York Sea Grant trolls for new anglers
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New York Sea Grant has released "Sportfishing: A Study of Gender and Life
Stage Along New York's Eastern Lake Ontario Coast" and "Strategies for
Increasing Sportfishing Participation in New York's Great Lakes Region."
Source: The Syracuse Post-Standard (11/18)
Farmland and septic tanks undoing decades of Great Lakes cleanup
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When politicians banned phosphates in detergents back in the 1970s, they
thought they had solved the big water pollution issue of the day -- but they
didn't fix the other source of chemicals that can spoil water quality: the
runoff from farmland and septic tanks. Source: The Ottawa Citizen (11/16)
Regional planning is key, sprawl expert says
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Alleviating the ills of urban sprawl in metro Detroit will mean doing
regional planning - despite political turf battles - bringing jobs and homes
closer together, and investing in public transportation. Source: The Oakland
Press (11/6)
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Growing population drives the need for change
In the next 50 years, 2.6 billion more souls will be added to our little club called humanity. That's more people than were alive on the entire planet in 1950, and it will bring our population to nearly 9 billion. No doubt such an increase will put tremendous strain on our already-taxed natural resources, but what the future will look like still depends on choices we make today.
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Great Lakes Daily News: 20 November 2003
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Two projects expected to enhance Belle Isle
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Two projects that are expected to enhance the natural habitat at Belle Isle
will be announced by Recreation Department officials today. Source: Detroit
News (11/20)
Analysis due on low water levels
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The United States Geologic Survey is scheduled to release as early as
tomorrow a detailed analysis of why Monroe County's groundwater levels have
been dropping over the last several years. Source: The Toledo Blade (11/20)
Upton seeks leniency on air standards
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U.S. Rep. Fred Upton believes he has a solution to the problem of air
pollution that originates across Lake Michigan and winds up in southwest
Michigan. Source: South Bend Tribune (11/20)
New state park eyed
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The largest undeveloped and unprotected tract of land remaining along
Pennsylvania's Lake Erie shoreline might become the first new state park
since 1975. Source: Erie Times-News (11/20)
Ohio company at heart of blackout
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A Homer Simpson-like chain of errors at an Ohio power company triggered
events that plunged 50 million people into darkness Aug. 14, a U.S.-Canada
task force has found. Source: Toronto Star (11/20)
Property lines at issue in shoreline bill
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Conservationists and residents who live along Lake Erie clashed yesterday
over a bill that tries to redefine the line between private property and a
doctrine that allows citizens to enjoy Lake Erie's shore. Source: The
Toledo Blade (11/20)
Large crowd turns out to remember the Edmund Fitzgerald
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Jim Landwehr from the Speakers Bureau of the Wisconsin Marine Historical
Society gave the talk in conjunction with an Edmund Fitzgerald exhibit that
opened recently at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. Source: Manitowoc Herald
Times Reporter (11/19)
Manure's polluting effect unknown
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Canada is boosting more high-intensity livestock farms -- even though the
government reveals it doesn't know how to keep manure from polluting more of
the country's shorelines. Source: Ottawa Citizen (11/17)
COMMENTARY: Lake Michigan fishing legacy a cause worth rallying around
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Fishermen and biologists should compromise and consider current health, and
the history of Lake Michigan to decide when to allow fishing. Source:
Chicago Sun-Times (11/9)
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From The Green Guide:
Still the Sundance Kid
Robert Redford gets heated up about the Bush environmental agenda, clean energy, and more
Smart Shopper's Holiday Companion, FREE from The Green Guide
From The Green Guide Institute
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
The Melanesians and other peoples fast before they feast but we do the opposite, gorging on sweets at Halloween, stuffing ourselves at Thanksgiving, then filling up again at Christmas and Hanukkah meals, with double dipping as we visit different sets of parents. None of us may get any lighter this holiday season, but with a few careful food choices that won't bust the bank there are ways we may tread a bit more lightly on the earth.
Price is important. While organic can be expensive, The Green Guide's survey of New York markets (including Whole Foods, Fairway, and Food Emporium) shows that sometimes, as with sweet potatoes, brown rice and organic wines, prices are the same or quite close. As noted in a previous Green Guide article "Organic Food: Healthy Eating," to protect your health, and especially your children's, you can pick organic for those items, like apples, pears, spinach and potatoes, which have the heaviest pesticide loads. Then you can save your money by choosing conventional versions of other items. Of course, choosing organic also helps keep pesticides out of the environment and avoids the cruel conditions animals endure in massive factory farms (see "Looking For a Real Turkey?" also at www.thegreenguide.com).
So fill your holiday table with a bounty of organic foods everything from turkey and ham, to cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, fruits, breads and desserts using The Green Guide's downloadable Smart Shopper's Holiday Companion (see www.thegreenguide.com/doc.mhtml?=99&s=shopping), FREE through December 15th. It comes complete with price comparisons (organic vs. conventional) of all items on your list so that you can plan your menu to suit your budget. It's the season's smartest and the most delicious way to make a difference.
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Rejuvenating Our Innate Love of Nature Motivates Social and Environmental Activism
From Project NatureConnect
Thursday, November 20, 2003
"We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love." said
Stephen Jay Gould , the acclaimed nature writer, paleontologist and evolutionist at Harvard University. At Project NatureConnect, Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director, offers that the Orientation Course described in the book he and 36 co-authors have just published entitled "The Web of Life Imperative" contains instructions and activities that help people discover, strengthen and wisely act from their inborn love of nature.
Cohen says "Contemporary society's conquest and suppression of our innate love of nature conditions us to disregard that love and feel frustrated about our powerlessness to improve our environmental relationships. That love is a vital force for strengthening our environmental relationships and our relationships with society and ourselves as well, for, as people, we are biologically and psychologically part of nature."
"Rejuvenating people's love of nature is a mainstay of our book and course, a subject that is seldom found, and too often demeaned as 'fuzzy thinking,' in educational curriculums and environmental efforts," Cohen notes. His course in Applied Ecopsychology is taught via the internet and that enables people in many walks of life to thoughtfully make sensory connections with authentic nature. They use that connection to help them rejuvenate their inborn love of nature into their consciousness and thinking. "The restoration of that power dissolves the apathy that saps the support we need to rectify our our most challenging environmental and social troubles, noted Cohen, who also wrote "Reconnecting With Nature" and founded the program of the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute in 1960.
To help people familiarize themselves with the course and its potential, Cohen has placed on the Internet the archives of student involvement in the course as it was, and still is, taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara. http://www.webstrings.org/webst111.html
A quote from the journaled message of a student to fellow students in the Project NatureConnect online degree program serves as an example of the course and book bringing hidden love for nature into action:
"What I got from this exercise on an experiential level is the interdependence of species of all kinds for good quality air, since it is a give & take beneficial relationship. While I was doing this exercise, I was sitting outside on a deck and connecting with the trees as I breathed in and out, and it felt very wonderful to be experiencing our mutual attraction to each other. I felt as though the tree was grateful for the air I was breathing out, just as I was for the clean air it was providing for me to breath in return. I became much more aware of the (love and) interrelatedness that we have for each other because we need each other.... Recently, I have been struggling with the air quality in our new apartment home, with all the pressed wood, new paint, linoleum, etc .and trying to "air" the place out during the day. To have stale, stuffy, smelly air indoor air to breath is almost as bad as not breathing at all because it is removed from nature's perfectly balanced life giving air! Every cell in my body protests, and when I am outside I breath very deep & cleansing breaths to try & make up for lost time outdoors. Another step I have taken is to fill my apartment with live plants which give so much and greatly improve the air quality."
Through books, CEUs, courses, and degree programs online, Project NatureConnect, at the Institute of Global Education and in cooperation with several universities, offers the public an easily accessible, nature-reconnecting preventative and recovery instrument. Anyone may easily learn and teach online or on-site its hands-on, sensory, unifiying process in local natural areas. The Project NatureConnect grant program subsidizes training in Applied Ecopsychology.
For further information visit the Project NatureConnect web site at www.ecopsych.com or contact Dr. Cohen: email Telephone: 360-378-6313.
For more information, contact:
Mardi Jones, Ph.D.
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Project NatureConnect
Post Office Box 1605
Friday Harbor, WA 98250
nature@interisland.net
Web site:
http://www.ecopsych.com
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