Editor’s Note:  350Kishwaukee blogger Bonnie Amesquita expresses, through poetry, her personal struggle to adapt to a Red-hot Planet and the extremes of anthropogenic climate change: Breathe these days when your chest burns while climbing stairs walking treadmills traveling the neighborhood on hot days you long for air that comes easy without thought like when you (More...)

“If someone’s building a new home, to me it’s a no-brainer.  You put in geothermal and put in the solar panels, and it’s part of your mortgage.  And there you are!  You’ve got your energy.  If you can, get a battery backup.” This, according to Ron and Joyce Marten, is the easiest way to become (More...)

Former master gardener and First Congregational UCC congregant Tom Harris agreed to meet with me to share his thoughts, concerns, and experiences as a gardener.  His parents had a big garden when he was young so he fell into gardening naturally.  Harris’s own children enjoyed the vegetables he grew, and when his wife, Judy, who (More...)