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Go Green: Knitting connections to the land, our lives
By Kelly Barth
May 7, 2012
Normally fumble-fingered, I have developed a passion for knitting. My motivation to learn owes largely to my membership in local shepherd Barbara Clark’s knitting CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Each spring and fall, I am invited to the sheering and a hearty lunch. I regularly receive skeins of yarn and patterns. Now, I’m knitting a cardigan from Darwin, a friendly, chocolate brown sheep. I know where and how he lives. When the cold comes again, I will wear wool I witnessed him happy to be rid of. The whole process irrevocably connects me both to him, Barbara and her farm, a rich piece of Kaw Valley bottomland.
Go Green: Kitchen invaders part of the family
By Kelly Barth
April 2, 2012
“May I have your attention please,” I recently shouted at the ants running a stack of dirty plates on the off chance that they had ears. “The cafeteria will be closing in five minutes. Please feel free to ask for any last-minute assistance you may need.”
Go Green: Light pollution disrupts plant, animal and human rhythms
By Kelly Barth
March 5, 2012
A child of the suburbs, I was 40 before I saw the Milky Way, our home galaxy. Lying on my back on a prairie hilltop near Manhattan gave me a long overdue sense of my size and place in the larger universe, a sense my ancestors, living in a much darker world, had taken for granted.
Go Green: Tips for observing snowy owls and other wildlife
By Kelly Barth
February 6, 2012
Lawrence has had some beautiful visitors from the North this brown winter. Though not unheard of, visits from snowy owls are definitely an exception to the rule in Kansas.
Go Green: Burroughs Creek trail a biking superhighway in east Lawrence
By Kelly Barth
January 2, 2012
My childhood bicycle path led nowhere. I was permitted to ride my purple banana seat around our driveway and, once I got their permission, the Muñoz’s driveway next door.
Go Green: Christmas bird count
By Kelly Barth
December 5, 2011
By our first Christmas Bird Count, my partner Lisa and I could identify three species with confidence: robins, blue jays and cardinals. That was an improvement from the year before when, with great enthusiasm, I mistook a female cardinal on my new bird feeder for a pyrrhuloxia and proudly wrote it in my Audubon Handbook of Birds. I failed to read that the pyrrhuloxia is a desert species, resident from south-central Arizona, east to Texas.
Go Green: The childhood of an environmentalist
By Kelly Barth
November 7, 2011
What happened in the childhoods of environmentalists to make them grow up with a love for the natural world?
Go Green: Charting the paths of Monarch butterflies
By Kelly Barth
October 3, 2011
Douglas County is lucky enough to be on the migratory flyway for Monarch butterflies. A few weeks ago Kelly Barth and others attended an event at the Wakarusa Wetlands or Prairie Park Nature Center, where she and other pressed identification tags onto the butterflies’ sturdy wings.
Go Green: Ecology, agriculture intersect at Prairie Fest
By Kelly Barth
September 5, 2011
Hundreds from all over the country and even the world flock to Salina for The Land Institute’s Prairie Fest.
Go Green: Put summer heat to use with a solar cooker
By Kelly Barth
August 1, 2011
I’d heard you could fry eggs on a hot sidewalk.

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