Education, the free flow of information, is key for our personal and societal growth. It all comes back to education.

Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.

Education, the free flow of information, is key for our personal and societal growth. It all comes back to education.

Energy use, transportation options, food choices, water use, purchasing choices, participating in elections, volunteering for nonprofits . . . and within each of these categories, each of us can learn to live a more conscious life.

As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

We have spent the better part of the last fifty years being inundated by advertising, being told that we will be happier if we get more stuff. But that's been backfiring recently.

I believe that it's vital for children and teens to be educated, to be given information to help them understand the impacts humans are having on our water, soil, and air.