I woke up early, just as the sun was beginning to soften the night’s hold on the world. I ate breakfast watching the tree leaves reappear under a sky steadily filling with light. This isContinue reading
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Anne Martin
alumni, climate, conservation, energy, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, forests, sustainability, travel, undergraduate
alumni, climate, conservation, energy, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, forests, sustainability, travel, undergraduate
Progress
A Year in the Tropics
Costa Rica has been a dream of mine for a very long time…I am not sure at what point it became this way. I think that sometimes certain places capture your imagination in a wayContinue reading
Tell Your Children to Be Farmers
There was an Op-Ed in the New York Times written a year ago by Bren Smith titled, “Don’t Let Your Children Grow Up to Be Farmers”. I found it sitting neatly folded on my bedroomContinue reading
Barefoot Change
There is something to be said for living in such a way that you could let go of everything. It is the sense of possession, and more than that, the sense of need, that keep us from feeling happy.
Anne Martin
climate, conservation, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, students, undergraduate, water
climate, conservation, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, students, undergraduate, water
There is a Salty Cure for Everything
“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.”
Anne Martin
conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, students, sustainability, travel, undergraduate, water
conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, students, sustainability, travel, undergraduate, water
Lessons from Hispaniola
A green castle amidst a desolate landscape, a flapping Haitian flag waving us quietly goodbye. My last image of Haiti is filled with a strange sadness.
Anne Martin
climate, conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, forests, marine studies, students, sustainability, undergraduate, water
climate, conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, forests, marine studies, students, sustainability, undergraduate, water
Something That I Believe In
We live in a world in which every decision that we make counts. We must decide what kind of a world we want to live in, and then decide what those decisions will be.
Power Places
There is something miraculous and moving about certain places. Certain spaces and moments are so moving we are forced to pause. We are called by something almost inexplicable to consider, to reflect, to heal, to be rejuvenated by the sheer act of being alive.
These are the moments that sustain us, the flickers in time that must be sought and cultivated and created. So go ahead…let your breath by stolen on the wings of a butterfly. You’ll only be the better for it.