Iona Conner
I am fasting for one week at home in Pennsylvania.
Iona Conner is Publisher and Editor of the USA’s first global warming, hard-copy newspaper, "The Order of the Earth: News, Views and Musings", has been an environmentalist for over 40 years. She is a former New Jersey air pollution inspector and first realized that we were "cooking the planet" while in training to monitor industrial smokestacks back in 1986. It didn't take much imagination to translate the visible factory stacks into hidden "stacks" which spurt out invisible greenhouse gas pollutants as fossil fuels heat and cool every house, school, business and church. Then, as Iona was learning the art of smoke evaluation, she imagined every single car and truck in the heavily trafficked corridors of central New Jersey as also having "stacks," horizontal ones.
Now the seriousness of catastrophic climate change is upon us and people all over the world are trying to come up with alternatives to burning coal, oil or gas. "The Order of the Earth" highlights successful grassroots news stories from the United States and other countries. The paper's upbeat spirit encourages others to take serious action, withdraw from deadly and insane ways of living, and get involved with others to build stronger local communities and to influence governments and corporations to work toward survival of ecosystems everywhere.
Articles are written by strong, intelligent, compassionate people who have messages to inspire each of us to delve more deeply into our own actions and to help readers understand what's really happening to the world in terms of global warming and political paralysis.
