I am a native Montanan (Great Falls) but spent my career at the University of Illinois where I was an administrator and my husband worked in computer-based education for Physics and other sciences. When we retired we worked in Yellowstone for four glorious summer seasons and then bought a small condo in Bozeman where we are fortunate to spend 5 months of the year. I have always been a lover of nature but my time in Yellowstone and more recently hiking the mountains around Bozeman makes me keenly aware of the natural gifts we are squandering.
I have also been blessed with the opportunity to make a number of mission trips to Haiti and Honduras. I am concerned that we cannot achieve social justice without a mind for environmental justice. This applies locally as well as across the globe.
I am not a mover and shaker in the world of environmental work. I am simply a person who is trying to wake up and embrace some of the things we can do to live a life of more integrity and environmental righteousness. Some of my Illinois friends razz me about my “saying no to a straw” and other small efforts at minimizing my plastic footprint. But I tell them I am trying to do three things: live with more integrity, raise the consciousness of others around me and finally, move the dial in the marketplace in favor of companies that are mindful of plastic and other environmental issues.
I am a native Montanan (Great Falls) but spent my career at the University of Illinois where I was an administrator and my husband worked in computer-based education for Physics and other sciences. When we retired we worked in Yellowstone for four glorious summer seasons and then bought a small condo in Bozeman where we are fortunate to spend 5 months of the year. I have always been a lover of nature but my time in Yellowstone and more recently hiking the mountains around Bozeman makes me keenly aware of the natural gifts we are squandering.
I have also been blessed with the opportunity to make a number of mission trips to Haiti and Honduras. I am concerned that we cannot achieve social justice without a mind for environmental justice. This applies locally as well as across the globe.
I am not a mover and shaker in the world of environmental work. I am simply a person who is trying to wake up and embrace some of the things we can do to live a life of more integrity and environmental righteousness. Some of my Illinois friends razz me about my “saying no to a straw” and other small efforts at minimizing my plastic footprint. But I tell them I am trying to do three things: live with more integrity, raise the consciousness of others around me and finally, move the dial in the marketplace in favor of companies that are mindful of plastic and other environmental issues.