What on Earth is the Earth Forum?
A bit more than a year ago, we started talking in Green Team meetings about how great it would be for Norfolk to have an event focused on planet care. We dreamed together about how such a gathering might highlight Norfolk as a place of incomparable natural beauty as well as home to a variety of informed, inspiring, hard-working people who love where we live. By "where we live" I include Norfolk but also use the phrase to capture our planet, solar system, and beyond. We reached out to several people and groups, floating our idea to see if it might find shared enthusiasm. We quickly partnered up - in a grassroots collaborative way - with Great Mountain Forest, Aton Forest, the Norfolk Conservation Commission, the Norfolk Land Trust, the Norfolk Library, and Botelle School. Plans quickly solidified, and we wound up hosting four separate events over Earth Day weekend, culminating in a play honoring the life of Rachel Carson. It was an enlightening, inspiring, and wonderful weeke...
