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Classics in Sustainable Development

Have you ever thought about the power of your words? Words, both spoken and written hold immense power. Storytelling and stories are a powerful culmination of w...

Capturing carbon: Small forest landowners

This paper is glimpse into a new paradigm that will soon become increasingly popular for many countries around the world. This paper will outline trends and del...

Farming in the fall | Week 16

This first week of December marks the last week of my farm ops 2 experience. It has been an amazing fall session and I feel like I have learned a lot of practic...

Hemp in North Carolina

For my individual crop report I decided to grow a potentially high value cash crop and something I personally think will have more merit and opportunity for gro...

Farming in Appalachian

This week we spent some time with the livestock examining their living conditions and winterizing their habitat. It's still fall but seems winter is upon us wit...

Parable of the sower

What's interesting about Octavia Butler's story parable of the sower is the power of telling a story. This is seemingly the same message that was portrayed in c...

Farming in Appalachia week 11

The Carolina Farm Stewardship Association is an organization that promotes some pretty cool things that we have learned about in sustainable agriculture. Apart ...

Surfing in Trash

Not caring about the quality of the beaches in low income areas when there's a big press to keep tourist beaches clean makes room for an argument based on Rache...

Farming in Appalachians week 10

Week 10 The High Country Seed Library is located at the Watauga County Public Library which is on 140 Queen St in Boone North Carolina. This is right downtown j...

Ceremony - Silko

On page 172 it says, “The white ranchers called this place North Top, but he remembered the story Josiah had told him about a hunter who walked into a grassy me...

Farming in Appalachian Mountains Week 9

Week 9 This week marks the ninth week of the semester. Fall is here, the weather is cool and the air is crisp. To me, this is one of the best seasons on the far...

The Interconnections of the Good Life

Sustainable Development is going back to principles and ideals that worked up until the Anthropocene. Its often regarded as a complex ecology viewpoint but I wo...

Farmin in the fall | Week 7

Week 7 This week on the farm was a lot of fun, and very rewarding/ enlightening. I am always amazed at how much you can learn and progress your knowledge by lea...

On the SD farm | Week 6

This week on the farm was fun. It was nice to get to catch up with chip and the gang and learn some more about farming! I am really appreciating my time out on ...

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

Thoreau was an individual I thoroughly enjoyed trying to learn about and decipher. After uncovering many aspects and motives of his writings it's clear to see t...

Farmin in the fall | Week 3

Week 3 The assigned readings for this week were Steel in the Field and the articles on weed management. The articles on weed management were fantastic reads and...

Farmin in the Fall | Week 2

Week 2 This Wednesday we met out on the farm for the second farm ops 2 class. Things are really starting to go nicely as far as making progress on the upgrades ...

Thoreau

For this week's question I will be playing the devil's advocate, and critiquing Thoreau seemingly negatively, although I do think depending on what perspective ...

Farming in the Appalachians 1

Week 1 Wednesday August 22 was the first day of farm ops 2. Their were quite a few people that I have not had the chance to meet yet which is cool. Sandy was te...

Film music and experience

Film music and experience For our final assignment, we were to choose a film and describe the musical elements that add to the experience of the film. I honestl...