I don’t know about all of you, but I thought Kerry’s last post about the green noise was excellent and something we all have to keep in our minds. The line in the NY Times article that really struck me was from Paul Hawken, when he said, “even people inside the movement have the [...]

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I’ve been finding it difficult lately to write here on The Scoop. It’s partly due to my somewhat broken keyboard, and partly because of the weird hand cramp that makes my right hand spasm whenever I type. But mostly, it’s because I recently started wondering if what I’m writing here is really making any ind [...]

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As I mentioned before, this past Saturday I participated in a group hike on Mt. Diablo led by Hall Newbegin from Juniper Ridge. I finally got around to editing the photos from the hike, which you can see here. The hike was about seven miles long, though we stopped frequently to look at and learn [...]

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This past Saturday I was privileged to go on a hike led by Hall Newbegin, president and owner of Juniper Ridge, one of my favorite companies of all time. The purpose of the hike (besides, well, hiking) was to listen to Hall talk about native plants and wildflowers that grow on Mt. Diablo, which is [...]

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This was our last morning in Dota. After breakfast, we said our goodbyes to our hostesses, Cecilia and Rosita. They gave me a recipe for the chocolate cake we had eaten at breakfast, which I will post next week. The women had prepared our meals while we stayed there, and every meal we ate had [...]

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After a (delicious!) breakfast, we piled into the SUVs for a drive to a town called Providencia. I had heard that the road would be curvy, so I loaded up on ginger pills. The road wound around the hills of Costa Rica with treacherous turns, and shortly after we started out it turned to a [...]

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This day was our trip to Santa Maria de Dota, to visit a coffee co-op in the town called Coopedota. After eating breakfast and piling into the SUVs, we were all amazed at how beautiful the drive was. We were able to stop frequently to get some shots, and everyone in the group was so [...]

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On the first day of our trip Ted and I got out of bed at an ungodly hour and went to stand in the security line at Oakland International. In case you haven’t been there, this airport is a breeding ground for Type-A personalities, people who just can’t help themselves when an opportunity arises to [...]

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