There is so much going on in the world that makes environmental sense. The Facebook page Grow Food, Not Lawns, has a lot of  great stuff about what you can grow and how to go about it. It's time well spent and you can jump into discussions along the way. I found that most of the comments people post are helpful and positive.
Via a post on The Yardener I got to watch a tutorial about building an English Wattle Fence and was delighted when the host mentioned that the materials were clippings. What a great way to make use of tree prunings!
My quest for good news on the environmental front continues.

I think the best news is that so many people are looking at the reality of what is working in our behaviour towards the environment and what isn't. It seems a real mess; well, it is a real mess, but there are a lot of solutions that are being recognized as valid. People are singing out from such mountain tops as TED Talks. I found my way to Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk today (the You Tube version worked better on my computer) and loved her direct and very human approach. The power of story, I do not mean the content marketing view here, rather, the stories we live out every day without questioning the value of the belief woven through the fabric of each character and episode. If we want a new ending, we need a new story.

The topic for this post is water. More specifically, storm water. Because we have paved so much of our world, water behaves differently when it falls from the sky. It no longer has the same freedom and collects in runoffs that can get out of control if the rain-fall is sudden and sustained.

Primarily US based, the Water Environment Federation (WEF) website has a great page of feature stories that can give some insight about storm water and how it's different from other types of water-flow and runoff. According to their twitter page, they are a "Not-for-profit technical & educational organization representing water quality professionals around the world." You can follow them @WEForg if that's your thing.

Is the management of storm water going to turn out to be a viable solution? That remains to be seen. The point is that we keep trying things and aren't too proud to say, "Woops! That didn't turn out so well. Lets try something else."

I don't know about you, but, the biggest problems I see when it comes to the destruction of our environment is that we can be stubborn about changing the way we do things.

Welcome to the first step I make towards a more meaningful involvement in matters 'environmental.' This is an intro blog where I will post at least once a week. My posts will include enviro-do-gooders, technological developments for health conscious folks, and links to good feeling news.

I'm not trying to be an ostrich, nor am I asking you to hide from the scary stuff that we need to change. I need to remember the good stuff though, so I don't feel hopeless, and figured that maybe I'm not alone in this. Balance is the key to happiness, I hear.

Monica