Conscious Choice Seattle: Letters to the Editor

November 2005 | Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Green Thumbs-Up

Dear Evergreen Monthly,

I enjoyed the story about green book publishing (“Chain-Saw Reaction,” EM, October). It sure seems our nation of readers would be OK with recycled paper for our books, especially paperbacks.

One of the many positives of the article was filling in some background on the Boreal forest. I loved Ritzy Ryciak’s description of the Amazon rainforest as one “lung of planet earth” and the Boreal as the other. Sometimes I think the simplest facts about our earth’s wonder and fragility are overlooked in the media.

Plus, I did check your magazine’s own “paper trail” to notice that the issue saved 103 fully grown trees by using 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. Bravo to you.

Milly Wagner
Internet

Editor’s note: To be clear, the magazine is virtually 100 percent post-consumer waste. The cover is 90 percent post-consumer fiber. We are working on the other 10 percent.

The Nature of Kids

Dear Editor,

I want to thank you for the feature article “Raising Kids’ Outdoor I.Q.” (EM, August). We at Passages Northwest couldn’t agree more that the key to developing stewards of the natural world lies in igniting a passion for the outdoors in childhood. The most important thing we can do as parents and educators is simply allow kids to fall in love with the wilderness and establish a lifelong sense of connection to the environment.

Since 1996, Passages Northwest has offered programs for girls ages 10 to 17 and women that inspire courage and leadership through the arts and the natural environment. Research shows that one of the most powerful settings for building self-esteem and confidence in girls is the natural world.

Over the past nine years we have seen more than 3,000 girls and women develop physical, creative, and inquisitive courage through our programs. Some of our students have already learned to love the outdoors with their families; many are setting foot in the mountains or the woods for the first time. All return with a sense of new or renewed wonder about the wilderness and their capacity to make a difference in their own lives. More information on our programs is available at: www.passagesnw.org or by calling

(206) 286-8601.
Katie Hultquist
Executive Director
Passages Northwest

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