EarthTalk® E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: What is the Obama administration’s America’s Great Outdoors initiative and what does it hope to accomplish? — Doug St. James, New York, NY President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum in April 2010 establishing the America’s Great Outdoors Initiative to promote and support innovative community-level efforts […]
There are not many people who can still say that they remember the Great Depression. There are even less who can illustrate the impact this event can have in one lifetime. In his debut book, Chasing After the Wind…and Then? Frank Beasley combines enchanting stories from his youth during the Great Depression with poetry written […]
Dear EarthTalk: Could it really be true that we are in the midst of the worst drought in the United States since the 1930s? — Deborah Lynn, Needham, MA Indeed we are embroiled in what many consider the worst drought in the U.S. since the “Dust Bowl” days of the 1930s that rendered some 50 […]
