by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment
A few yards from his brewhouse at Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton, Virginia, Taylor Smack, owner and brewmaster, shows me his little field of dreams. One year ago, on a quarter-acre plot, Smack planted 200 hop vines, climbing plants that produce the flowers that are...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment
Glance at the websites of major U.S.-based environmental NGOs and you’ll see a pattern. These bright and often busy websites frequently are stamped with a simple logo: a heron, an egret, a polar bear, or a leaf. The contrast is instructive. These organizations founded...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment, Featured
Imagine, if you will, a story. In this story most of the characters are mute. The threats are abstract, the timeline long, the stakes high and the consequences still uncertain. Politics are present, and so, too, are heaps of money. There are enemies, but no...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment, Featured, Fishing
This is a story of stories. It is about one night on a river. It is a story about listening, about healing and about nature. This story is the reason I am here, now, talking to you. A few weeks ago, I drove with my father up to the Catskill Mountains in northwest New...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment
Driving many conversations on energy and climate is a single question: What will the future look like? Even if you’re not interested in the environment, you’ve asked a similar question before. If you’ve ever wondered what the weather will be over...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment
Early in the morning of March 27, 2006, Daniel Breton stopped at a rest area in Allamuchy, New Jersey to sleep. Breton, a physicist by training who was working as a truck driver between jobs, had started his assignment six days earlier in Chico, California. There, he...
