Katie Clifford February 10, 2008 at 6:30 pm
# One CommentIn August, 2006 I reached the end of the Oregon Trail with my boyfriend Jerzy, our African clawed frogs Winken and Blinken, our goldfish Frederick, a bottle of seamonkeys, and a jade plant. The earlier part of that summer was spent at his parent’s house in Lawrence, Kansas, planning where we would like to spend [...]
Katie Clifford October 28, 2007 at 6:05 pm
# One CommentDuring the U.S. election debacle of 2000, I told friends that if Bush became president, I would have to go to Wellesley. I would need all the tools I could amass to try to right the wrongs that I knew would be committed against the environment. I found myself in Wellesley, Massachusetts in the fall [...]
Katie Clifford August 22, 2007 at 8:07 pm
# No Comment YetRachel Carson’s book brought me to the realization that human activities have a real, significant effect on the natural environment. I began to question what my best friend at the time adamantly asserted: The government would never allow us to use chemicals that are harmful to our health and to the environment. The FDA shields [...]
Katie Clifford August 14, 2007 at 7:43 pm
# No Comment YetI wasn’t born and raised in the most environmentally-friendly city in the U.S. That title might belong to where I now live- Portland, Oregon. Instead, the first 18 years of my life were spent in Miami, Florida. There, the extremely poor and desperate meet the extremely rich folk and yearn to be like them in [...]