This is the only picture I have that remotely involves either Barbie or Taylor. It is September. September is a month of muddled change, a month of sunsets and back-to-school and the idea of autumn, which doesn't exist in any profound way on the California coast. September definitively marks the end of summer and the …
What You Share With The World
What you share with the world is what it keeps of you. --Noah and the Whale Situated on the northern coast of the Big Island overlooking the Maui Strait is Moʻokini Heiau, said to be the first temple built on the Hawaiian Islands. Legend says that the temple was built in a single …
Putting Price Tags on Parks
Once upon a time, a man named Gutenberg invented the printing press. Before that books were copied by hand, making them expensive and rare, available only to the societal elite. And then along came Gutenberg and everything changed. There were more books in circulation. More people began to read. The worlds of ink and paper …
EarthWorks Institute
The quintessential American childhood is built upon exploration. We see it time and again in children’s literary classics, such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Bridge to Terebithia, and the Little House on the Prairie series. More often than not, the freedom of exploration is linked with the outdoors. Even when the kids are housebound, they …
Sierra Club, Lehigh Valley Group
If you're involved in the outdoors in any capacity, you've heard of the Sierra Club before. Headquartered in Oakland, California, and founded in 1892 by environmentalist and outdoorsman John Muir, the organization boasts three million supporters, making them the undisputed king of grassroots environmentalism. I met with Executive Committee member of the Pennsylvania Chapter Don …
Delaware Highlands Conservancy
If Pennsylvania does one thing well, it's waterways. From the Delaware River in the east to the Allegheny, Ohio, and Monongahela in the west, what Pennsylvania lacks in mountains it makes up for in rivers and waterfalls galore (fun fact: Ricketts Glen State Park has 22 waterfalls alone). Water was a running theme (see what …
People in Parks 