Socially and environmentally responsible business, copywriting and online marketing, travel, hiking and camping, organic gardening and permaculture, feng shui, cultural anthropology, metaphysics, music, avid reading.
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Music
Bonnie Raitt, YES, Natalie Merchant, Rosanne Cash, U2, Joanne Shenandoah, Melissa Etheridge, Walela, Karen Therese, Libby Kirkpatrick, Alanis Morissette, Musmire, Afro-Celtic Sound System, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Indigo Girls, Janis Ian, Tori Amos, k.d. lang, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Cherish the Ladies, Alessandra Belloni, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Billy Joel, Bette Midler, R. Carlos Nakai, Santana, Paul Simon, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Sarah McLachlan, John Denver, Joni Mitchell, Barbra Streisand, Dead Can Dance, Utah Phillips, Bruce Cockburn, Willie Nelson, Great Big Sea, Mary Chapin Carpenter
Movies
Baraka, Good Night and Good Luck, Koyaanqatsi, Powaqqatsi, What the Bleep, The Secret, I Heart Huckabees, Hook, The Stunt Man, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Man of La Mancha, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Harvey, Smoke Signals, WordPlay, The Hours,
The Milagro Beanfield War, Casablanca, Calendar Girls, Seven Years in Tibet, Secret of Roan Inish, The Snow Walker, Places in the Heart, Whale Rider, Julia, Pay It Forward, Sacred Planet, Frida, Chocolat, SongCatcher, Everest, Sorceress, Elizabethtown, Moonstruck, Incident at Oglala, Erin Brockovich, Shipping News, Kundun
..The Eagle and the Condor
Bill Moyers, Nova, Nature, Star Trek/TNG and Voyager, and BritWit (my guilty pleasures!)
Books
Leadership and the New Science, The Holographic Universe, The Assault on Reason, Tao te Ching, The Power of Now, Fools Crow, In Gaia's Garden, The Ecology of Commerce, Shadow Dancing in the USA, The Soul of Business, The Tao of Abundance, High Exposure, Blue Highways, Love You Mean It, Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Lila, It's Like the Legend-Innu Women's Voices, Chop Wood-Carry Water, Seven Arrows, When Things Fall Apart, Of Water and the Spirit, Zen and the Art of Making a Living, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Black Elk Speaks...anything by Barbara Kingsolver, Peter Matthiessen, Jon Krakauer, Kurt Vonnegut, Sharan Newman, or Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Mertz ...for some of the others, see my bookshelves on Amazon!
Wangari Maathai, Camille Fouillard, Jacques-Yves and Philippe Cousteau, Al Gore, the Dalai Lama, Chief Frank Fools Crow, Nelson Mandela, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, David Breashears, Margaret Wheatley, Marija Gimbutas, Lynne Twist, Jean Houston, Rupert Sheldrake, Jan Dymond, Dennis Kucinich
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People fall in love with green living in all sorts of ways...for me, it all began in a graveyard. The old Friends' Burial Ground, to be precise, where my husband and I were sextons. It was a gorgeous place - five acres of century-old trees, a tiny stone house built around 1840, and two large gardens for herbs and veggies.
It was the first chance I'd had to actually practice the Old Country peasant principles I'd inherited from my Italian/Lithuanian parents...gardening organically, spending lots of time in nature, living simply.
That was a long time ago...my college-age son was 6 when we moved...but the lessons have stayed with me ever since. And ever since I left a 15-year technical-writing career in Corporate America to go it alone as a copywriter for sustainable businesses, the experience of green living at the Burial Ground has been my inspiration.
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