Standing up for my home

Trees by Sergeant Joyce Kilmer 165th Infantry (69th New York), A.E.F. I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose lovely mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that

Five dozen trees

The second round of tree cutting at the office building where I work seems to have taken place over the weekend. I don’t think there will be a third round, but the damage has been done. There have been a total of sixty trees cut down, so that an already large parking lot can be

The opposite of green

I work in an office complex in the suburbs of Chicago. It’s just across the street from a forest preserve, and I like the quasi-natural feeling that this affords. The building itself even has LEED certification, which means that it once passed a set of guidelines for a low environmental impact. But any illusions that