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For those of you who don’t know, Horses Help (www.horseshelp.org) is a therapeutic riding facility in north Phoenix that serves the valley’s special needs population. AZHS has been helping Horses Help implement plans to become a more sustainable organization including obtaining a grant for the rainwater cistern that was installed in November (check out Dana’s photos of that event on this site). The director of Horses Help, Gregg Goodman is working on a lar… Continue

My journey into the realm of sustainability didn’t begin with an ‘aha’ moment or even a gradual realization that it’s the wise way to live – no, I was born into it. I grew up in the Cities in Minnesota but spent many weeks each summer at my grandmother’s house in a small town in central Minnesota (population 83) near the family farm. My grandmother did not have trash pickup so we learned from an early age how not to generate much trash. Dishes were washed in a tub in the sink so the dishwater co… Continue

I found a little pink caterpillar eating the purple flowers of my lab-lab bean. I wondered if the color of the flower was making my little friend pink so I looked for some more caterpillars on the same plants and found some - one looks like it is turning pink too. Way cool! I think they are caterpillars… Continue