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Jen--my son is an MSU student (just finished his freshman year), and is home in Great Falls--mowing! Otherwise, I would send him your way--for the mowing part!! Really, I am interested in your green barn, as we just bought property in Manhattan, MT for our MSU rodeo daughter's horses. We are working on the barn. Advice needed! Hope to hear from you! Great cover last month on the magazine!

Forgot to add to my last post, we started leaving the clippings on the lawn at our Great Falls home and have encouraged others to do the same!

My son has a lawn mowing business in Bozeman/Belgrade and could use another job or two for the summer. He's a hard worker and will mow, prune trees, edge, weed eat, take care of animals, etc. He can do anysize lawn anywhere near Bozeman/Belgrade/4 Corners/Gallatin Gateway and will also bag it for you at a great price. Not the dating response you might me looking for but why not help out a responsible local kid while also getting a great looking yard out of the deal. Email me if interested and I'll get you our home phone. brook@pcengineeringllc.com

Hey Heather...I definitely am all for what you guys do here, especially your action-not-just-awareness approach. Nothing is worse than watching different perspectives within this evolving community divide and disappoint based on details rather than incite and inspire. Lately I'm wondering where I'm at with this stuff. I had the chance to speak with an Iroquois chief about a project (we realized I probably hit his grandson, and vice versa on the Nation's box lacrosse field) and Janine Benyus (www.biomimicry.net, super-interesting stuff for anybody interested) within a few weeks of each other...two people as close to embodying the natural world as anybody out there. Both, as optimistic as you'd imagine, saw Climate Change as already, essentially, ten years gone (sorry for the Zeppelin reference...one of my all-time favorite songs). Change isn't coming...we're already living it ("Changes fill my time, but that's alright with me"). Basically we can avoid the gloomiest & "doom-iest", but both sensed Nature forcing a re-localization of perspective and consumption, with Chief Lyons urging his people to "start planting" and protecting the Great Lakes water supplies, and Janine seeing a point of inflection in global commerce, most likely on its way. Anyway...the basic dichotomy or paradox I keep hitting, Is doing a little less bad good? Or just a little less bad? Different communities answer that one differently, as you'd guess in this age of moral relativism, evolving notions of decency and all that, umm, stuff. The Bible and, say, McKibben's reading of the Book of Job? The whole house divided thing...bad is bad is bad. Same with Jim Kunstler, the theatric post-modern drama guy, the atheist (not sure?) balancing out McKibben's Adirondack, Protestant and Minimalistic sensibilities. Then there's Treehugger's founder, probably a really great guy (honestly), living his daily day with $300 dollar cashmere sweaters and carbon offsets to balance out trans-continental commutes, all to save the environment in a day's work. Or Inhabitat...warning of greenwashing, as the writers color certain questionable products as sustainable because "you can't write about solar panels or biodiesel every day". Close to measuring sustainable by the standards of the world that all of us in this community are trying to protect (embodied in the laws and principles of physics, environmental chemistry and biology)...the C2C restorative community, and probably Tom Friedman's Flat World. So who knows, other than Nature, that after 3.8 billion years of building biodiversity, resilience and human/ecological health with only local, current sunlight, no waste or bio-accumulative toxins, in water and at room temperature...and Nature's already on the move. Tough call, and lately these meetings are with those sort of alpha male, eat-what-you-kill, consuming more is just the American success story type clients...which I guess puts me in fighting mode, because I think I know the answer to that question, but I can't stop fighting the supposed good fight even if the proverbial and literal flood's on the way. The only answer I have these days is "restore where you buy" -- so think about any NYC building for example. Since NY still gets 60% (and that's actually low) of its power from coal-fired power plants, here's what I just told a client they needed to do to be sustainable. First, go restore the human and ecological communities that mountaintop coal mining destroyed in Appalachia, but whose citizens are too poor to protect themselves or get the story out -- www.ilovemountains.org. Then restore the ecological damage associated with hauling, processing and burning this coal in Ohio. That includes the acid rain over the Adirondacks and the 24,000 lives cut short by pollution from these plants. And then let's talk Climate change. Do that, and you'll be sustainable. Or buy green power...locally produced, current solar energy, as Nature does. I won't even quote my favorite movie Braveheart here, but it's basically a "bend over and kiss your ass and apologize to every indigenous species, animal or human, along that path of consumption from the first piece of coal extracted in the most biodiverse freshwater ecosystem in the world (the Appalachian temperate stream systems), to any of the 24,000 people whose lives were cut short this year by pollution from coal-fired plants". I do it with a big jackass smile, at least! Who knows.

And...I'm definitely "light" green only on my best days, not even close most others!

I'll be in town for the Big Brothers Big Sisters golf tournament July 14th if Jen needs her lawn mowed? Rocky

Rocky, did you get a chance to mow Jen's lawn? Was it already trimmed or wild and bushy? Details man!

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