During April, you will commonly find earth-friendly tips for consumers, like bringing reusable bags when you shop and replacing your lightbulbs with CFL bulbs.  I would like to offer, instead, earth friendly thoughts for citizens.  Wendell Berry is a favorite of ours, and if you aren't familiar with his essay "The Pleasures of Eating", I invite you to find it and read it.-KP

"Eaters...must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, the way the world is used.  This is a simple way of describing a relationship that is inexpressibly complex.  To eat responsibly is to understand and enact, so far as one can, this complex relationship." -WENDELL BERRY