green underbelly's blog

With the ecology of activism weighing on my mind, I feel I don’t really have a pronounced way of influencing the public. In my first summer on farms in Dixon and Moiese, I felt like an activist. Farmers influence people in a way only writers or artists have mastered—through the undiluted passion for the process of growth and reflection.  Read More »

Our federal government’s concerns for Wilderness and public health are similar. Just as this nation’s health care plan for the uninsured and underinsured seems to be “don’t get sick,” the Forest Service has marginalized Wilderness advocates by failing to allocate resources and create policy that preserves Wilderness character.  Read More »

Note: this is the logical extension of a paper I read by Wallace Stegner. It's also the only work I've written after growing vegetables and melons at two farms this summer, and experiencing a speech by wilderness historian and futurist, Roderick Nash, this fall.

In your eyes:  Read More »

"There will come a day when a carrot, freshly observed, will spark a revolution." -Paul Cezanne, Painter

Here is the combination of my thoughts
-Morning extract of Eckarte Tolle philosophies
-The film Beautiful Truth
-Ever-confusing love interests
-Finding the approximate frost dates in Missoula, Montana and when to plant shit
-Triatholon outside the window  Read More »

I just wrote my representatives in support of H.R. 1388 and I encourage you to do the same. Here's how congress.com describes the bill:  Read More »

In a chapter of Two Treatises of Government, “Of Property,” John Locke justifies the human right of property by citing two sources that were credible during the 17th century.  Read More »

"The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land."
--A quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson's An Essay on Farming that speaks to my dreams.

Last year when I began to write with ProgressiveU.org I didn't know.  Read More »

Change doesn’t happen because of how we invest our money. Change happens because of how we invest our human energy, and it always has since we came down from trees. Everyone’s got a margin of discretionary energy—ten percent, twenty percent—that isn’t used up making their way in the world. That’s the energy that’s available for social change.  Read More »