We went to Mill Hollow, a lovely park in Vermilion, Ohio.

This link is to a map application that shows you how large the 2010 BP oil disaster would be in your area. Check it out, it’s an eye-opener! Visualizing the Oil Spill

There was a study done on this village in greenland starting in 2004: In certain villages in northern Greenland something is completely out of whack—only girls are being born. These reports from villages near the U.S. Air Force base in Thule are now being explored by scientists. But studies conducted a few years ago now [...]

We got hit with the tail wind from Hurricane Ike yesterday. We lost power late afternoon, and the power was out until early afternoon today. We watched the storm from the balcony until it got very bad and we had to go in. The wind speed got as high as 70mph, and it was very [...]

We got back this past Sunday from visiting Maine, where we stayed for 9 days. It was awesome, especially visiting Acadia National Park and going to the top of Cadillac Mountain. We were up and down the coast of Maine and so much of it is so beautiful and unspoiled, it is National Geographic pretty. [...]

A small slice of Ohio in the summer. This really is a beautiful place to live; a beautiful planet. This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for visiting Family Footprint!

Huge mushrooms! Not growing in the garden but at base of a tree in the woods. This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for visiting Family Footprint!

Dried up creek bed in the woods behind the house. When my mother-in-law was a little girl, this was full of running water. There is a natural ebb and flow to our world. I live the way I do to help, in my small part, keep things this way. This blog entry written by Trula [...]

One of the trees in the backyard, I love this tree! I sit under it often and just contemplate life as I gaze at the garden. This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for visiting Family Footprint!

I am obsessed with ferns, I have always loved them but don’t have much success in keeping them alive. It’s so odd because I very much have a green thumb otherwise. This is a new fern. I’m going to get more for the house and more for my bookstore as soon as I can be [...]

I think reducing our environmental impact is a very tangible thing. The removal of environmental toxins just in individual homes and work places (smoking, lead, asbestos, even cleaning toxins, etc.) has a very quick and tangible result. Clean water, air pollution, chemicals leached into the soil, also have tangible affects on people that can be [...]

After our sons made Brian breakfast and he opened his Father’s Day’ presents, we spent the day at his cousin’s farm with Jeff and his wife Shelly and their two older boys who are 11 and 8. They also have a baby boy who is 9 months old. They are wonderful people, really good and [...]

Of course I think this is total coolness! There’s another version of the Flock browser called the Eco-Edition. Check out a screenshot of it and download from there. Flock says: The Eco-Edition is chock full of environmentally-conscious feeds, favorites, and media streams. 10% of search proceeds go to a charity that will be chosen by [...]

You may know we are planning to build a straw bale house. I recently came across the beautiful homestead Eliphante, built by two artists over a 28-year period. From the site: 1979 Michael & Leda moved themselves and their paintings from Provincetown MA to rural land in Cornville Arizona. There they began the first mixed [...]

This is a tree I pass often on my walks. I like it a lot. This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for visiting Family Footprint!

Have you ever wondered where the phrase ‘tree-hugger’ came from? I’ve been called that a lot, so I did. Check it out: The Chipko movement (literally “to hug” in Hindi) was a group of peasants in the Uttarakhand region of India who acted to prevent the felling of trees and reclaim their traditional forest rights [...]

What is Ecological Debt Day?From the site: Globally, we are demanding 1.3 planets to support our lifestyles this year, and yet we only have one planet earth. Ecological Debt Day marks the day when we begin living beyond our ecological means. Ecological Footprint accounting shows that, as of October 6, 2007, humanity has consumed the [...]

Ok, this is really cool, it’s an online ticker that shows population growth, C02 emissions, and other interesting things you might like to know:http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks3.htm Subscribe to Family Footprint by Email