It is the end of the year (my first as a blogger) and I decided it was time to be inspired.  One of the problems of the environmental movement is it tends to spread a message of doom.  No one wants to hear that the world as we know it is going to end, that our way of life is unsustainable.  It is so often a negative campaign.  Corporations are doing terrible things to the Earth.  Animals and plants are dying.  But the Earth is an amazing place and I think it’s important to remember that.  I took a course online this fall on edX called The Energetic Earth.  At the very end of the course the professor showed a series of photos that were beautiful and also illustrated some of the concepts we had talked about.  I thought it was a great idea.  So I have put together some photos I took over the past few years.  The Earth is an amazing place.  And if we treat it right it will continue to be an amazing place for a long time.  I hope these inspire you.  And maybe look through your own photos to find your own inspiration to keep working to live a green life.

 

 

 

 

sunlight streaming down on the mall in Washington, DC

 

 

 

 

sun shining through a castle ruin in Germany

 

 

 

 

a flooded Neckar river in Heidelberg, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

a storm coming from the Atlantic toward Emerald Isle, NC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purgatory Chasm in Newport, RI