Name: Jim M
Photo Added: 05/02/2009 4:05 pm
Location: Springville, AL USA
I first became concerned about the environment in about 7th or 8th grade, during Catholic elementary school. I remember reading Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" in around 1968 or so. My high school years were in the early 70's, and some of my teachers had an environmental tone.
In 1978, I enrolled in the Spring semester of Western Michigan Universities, Homesteading Practice course. I had just completed my second year at W.M.U., and had an undeclared coordinate major in Geography/Environmental Studies. However, more importantly, I was a social malcontent from the tail end of the era of "drop acid and drop out". My father had died the previous year from the effects of a misdiagnosed case of salmonella food poisoning. I had been exposed to just enough of the Environmental Studies program to realize that life on Earth was a bit tenuous, given our human cultures predisposition to destroying things. I was ready, I thought, to drop out for good, and learn the skills needed to survive in what was surely going to become a survivalists future.
I liked it at the homestead so much, I returned for the Fall semester for another couple of credit hours. I commuted
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