Author: Barbara Lynn Weaver

Power: Filters water, like, really well. Name: Filtering Fred Motto: Better than a Brita Outfit: Appearance: see above. Transportation: rides on a cloud. Weakness: pollution…

“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” Roosevelt Franklin Agricultural science and the natural…

Mark Shepard’s insistence on returning the land to its “natural form and function,” while still producing food drew me to his style of permaculture. Regarding…

In a stroke of absolute luck and incalculable coincidence, I got to hear Joel Sartore speak, just three days after watching his photos project across…

On Tuesday, I took off to Eno River State Park and hiked the Laurel Bluffs Trail. It follows the river as it winds up into…

Brielle Tobin and Barbara Lynn Weaver Health and Socioeconomic Disparities of Food Deserts Food insecurity exists when communities experience inconsistent access to adequate food due to…

(adapted from Margaret Atwood’s “It’s Not Climate Change, It’s Everything Change”)   The future without bees! Let’s imagine our best case scenario, and call it…

Cereal in the Anthropocene Charlie reached into the cabinet, He grabbed a bowl, a spoon, and the box. “Chocolate Flavored Puffs: With Lots of Artificial…

Buying Nature When I was in elementary school, my mom topped off each bag lunch with a plastic water bottle. Only used once. When the…