April 29, 2009
| Posted in Creation Care, Community, Charitable & NGOs
Floresta has the privilege of working with some very special and talented people, many of whom also happen to be very poor. They challenge my western middle-class stereotypes of poor people as somehow less intelligent, hard working or entrepreneurial.
Laurencia is one such person...
December 18, 2008
| Posted in Berkeley, Restaurants
foodies mecca got to love Chez Panisse, decades ahead of the curve for promoting local, organic food. Yes, it's expensive and elitist. But Alice Waters and Michael Pollan have also been the vanguard. make the pilgrimage!
December 18, 2008
| Posted in Community, Charitable & NGOs
Healing lives and Landscapes- Floresta I had the opportunity to visit a Floresta reforestation and community development project for the first time this year- it was awesome! Floresta teaches the rural poor sustainable agricultural techniques that allow them to both feed their families and protect their environment. It respects local...
planting with purpose
San Diego, CA
Floresta USA
Christ the Lord, by Anne Rice
My 12 year old Cannondale mountainbike
see above
in the garden, on the bike, or with the family
Craig and Nancy Goodwin
my roto-molded plastic surf kayak
