by Carolyn M. Crane | Apr 12, 2011 | Community, Education, Sustainability |
Each May for many years now, Nevada City resident Mary Moore has donated one of her handmade quilts to the North San Juan Fire Auxiliary’s Scotch Broom Breakfast raffle. A nationally known quilting queen and artisan, Moore is incredible unassuming and humble...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Feb 6, 2011 | Abbey Country, Essays, Farmers Markets, Sustainability
February 6, 2011 Downtown Portland, Oregon This last week, traveling in one day from Sierra Vista, Arizona to Portland, Oregon was a bit like stepping from Edward Abbey’s Good News into Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia. On each count this is an...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Feb 2, 2011 | Abbey Country, Essays, Mining, Polemics, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival |
by Carolyn Crane Pima County, Arizona Last Saturday, I found myself on the old Thurber Ranch outside Sonoita, Arizona, listening to a presentation about a proposed open pit copper mine. The site-coordinator, Dennis Fischer, gave an excellent presentation. He is truly...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 23, 2011 | Farming, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Text by Carolyn Crane Photos by Tony Finnerty Nevada City, California Last January 16, about a hundred people filled the meeting room in City Hall to participate in an activist workshop about the honeybee. The workshop, one of several at the Wild and Scenic Film...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 13, 2011 | Farming, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
FIlmmaker Severine von Tscharner Fleming spent two years canvassing the nation in search of young farmers. From Vermont to California, Mississippi to New York, The Greenhorns explores the advantages and challenges of being a young farmer today. She takes us to meet a...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 13, 2011 | Farming, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
“Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.” — Tom Robbins What do you get when you mix an original, eclectic soundtrack, snippets of Victorian-style animation, documentary footage, tiny action figures, and organic...
