January was our inaugural issue dedicated to clarifying our perspectives on "What Does Green Mean." We looked at the definitions - and inadequacies - of various certifications and governement regulations, and introduced our monthly columns focused on sustainable relationships, health, green growing, building, and renewable energy.
February was dedicated to seeds and growth - looking at genetic modication of seed, heirloom seeds and sustainble growth, and, for Valentine's Day, romantic love and chocolate.
March was a look at health - the health of soil, mental health, diet, and the interrelationship of our health and the planet's.
April was our water issue: with privitazation, spiraling prices, scarcity, and war, prospects for access to this the most essential of life's resources will be increasingly difficult. We reflect upon our use, and abuse, of this resource.
Our May issue looks at the strenght of women as a consumer group for sustainble products and services in the marketplace, nurturing and stewardship, and women's health. And we celebrate motherhood throughout the issue.
June is dedicated to fatherhood, green building,and renewable energy. We celebrate the many initiatives builders, architects, and energy innovators that help green our region.
July is a easy access, green business directory for Northeast Kansas. From Topkea, Kansas to St. Joe, Missouri local, sustainable businesses partnered with Blue Sky Green Earth to offer their products and services in this rapidly growing green economy.
August inverstigates knowledge, education, teens and young adults, and green growing. Personal growth and development accompanied by education for a sustainable future is the hallmark of good, green things to come.
September is dedicated to life cycles and to sensing age as a natural and welcomed aspect to an unfolding life, using tree growth as metaphor. We look at the (re)cycles of paper and paper products, the aging gardener, champion a new life-cyle based focused for measuring personal and economic sustainablity, and introduce a new monthly column on healthy pets.
October is about "things unseen": from noise pollution to music. We showcase preparing gardens for the winter with composting and organic fertilizers, look at isssues and concerns in raising kids "green", and home energy audits.
November is for giving thanks, of course, and there is plenty to be thankful for. We look at the foritude and foresight of the Lawrence City Commission is resisting mega-malls downtown and preserving Massachusettes Street, we have a new columnist, Ken Lassman who has developed a wonderful review of local, seasonal change in his Kaw Valley Almanac. Our other columnists take a stand against excessive consumerism as we enter the most shopping-oriented season, sustaining authentic relationships in this period of high external focus, plus winter gardening and - of course -in our food column we take a new look at pumpkin pie!
December marks the beginning of our second year publishing Blue Sky Green Earth and we are taking a different approach editorially. For 2011 we will produce four seasonal issues, beginning with Winter, followed by Sping, Summer, Fall, and then our Field Guide to Green Business. Ken Lassman, one of Northeast Kansas' most prolific and lyrical naturalists, who will paying attention to the nuanced changes the envrionment undergoes each season in the Kaw Valley Almanac column. And we will be dedicating additonal editorial coverage to issues and concenrs facing the sustainability movement throughout the area, and supporting educated and informed consumer choices that reflect green choices. Our new format permits more in-depth coverage in all the markets we look into: renewable energy, hoisitic health, green education and parenting, sustainable growth, and eco-conscious lifestyle.
Spring 2011 features articles on reducing C02 emissions and reliance on fossil fuel by reducing automobile dependency. Our regualr columns are full of lively Spring activities of seasonal rebirth and rejeuvanation, sheep shearing, and green gardening preprations.
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