Paula Whyman is the author of the new memoir Bad Naturalist and the award-winning short story collection You May See a Stranger. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The American Scholar, and numerous literary journals. In Bad Naturalist, Paula shares her often humorous and deeply honest journey of ecological restoration on 200 wild acres in the Virginia mountains […]
Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #16: The Method, More Challenging
Exercise 16 of Leadership Step By Step was probably the most challenging one I’ve had so far. For this exercise, I had to do the exact same thing as in exercise 15, but now with something more difficult. Going through The Model and The Method itself was easy enough, but I found the actual new behaviors to be really difficult, […]
6 Easy Eco Swaps You Can Make RIGHT NOW
These days there are so many ways that you can make your life more environmentally friendly. Some of them require that you change your habits, like becoming vegetarian or vegan, only buying foods without packaging, or riding a bike to work, but here are 10 eco swaps you can make TODAY with minor or no changes at all to your […]
The Verdant Growth “WHY”
I love the environment. I believe that whether you’re democrat or republican… American, Chinese, or African… Christian, Buddhist, or athiest… A clean earth benefits everyone. I believe it’s our responsibility to minimize our impact on the environment, not just because we HAVE to, but because we CAN. I believe we can change the world. And I believe you can too. […]