Kyle David Nelson

Environmental Generational Amnesia

Kyle David Nelson March 18, 2016 No Comments

The reading by Peter Kahn entitled Environmental Generational Amnesia really stands out to me. It brought to mind the neighborhood that I grew up in in what is now the city of Sammamish. It used to be very sparsely populated and almost every house had a large backyard on the edge of an extensive forest. I could walk straight out… Read more »

Journal Excerpt: Memories from Earth Day, 1987

Kyle David Nelson February 6, 2016 No Comments

The reading on individualization brings back memories from my youth when my elementary school class in Redmond spent a day planting trees and learning about Earth Day. While it brought awareness to our class such an activity really didn’t make any sort of difference in our ecological footprint or that of our community. A few years before that our entire… Read more »