Green Retreat - Environmental storytelling "seed crystals"

Green Retreat - Env'l storytelling "seed crystals"   

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Hi all,
As you know, Steve has encouraged me to keep a running list of "seed crystals" or ideas for stories that could be the starting point for someone to use in their env'l storytelling. It has been SUCH A FUN exercise.  The list keeps growing.  I just added the last four of them based on a Garden Club "Envl Sustainability Course" that I was lucky enough to be part of.  I listened to three other presenters and gathered these seed crystals from them.  Happy reading.  I would love to learn more about each of these and hope someone will dig it and give us more on each one:

1.       Austin, TX’s Freetail bat population recovers thanks to a bridge that invites bat nests, eats insects (Prassede Calabi)

2.       Mystic River Herring ladder – River used to be a herring run, then dammed up and herring would die trying to get over the dam between the Mystic Lakes (bucket brigades tried to help), then in 2012 put in a herring ladder.  Now herring population has more than doubled, eagles and osprey, herons all back in area.  (Prassede Calabi)

3.       Ethiopia had massive famines in 1980s.  Then, government focused on food production system and irrigation.  Population has since doubled but now is a new food exporter. (Farmer Dave)

4.       LED lighting in greenhouses has made them economically feasible and is extending the growing season.  In the Republic of Georgia, their greenhouses are heated by geothermal energy and powered by solar panels and lit with LED lights.  (Farmer Dave)

Candy Dann