Greening The Golden Years Podcast: Joyce Emery, the Green Granny
Posted by Max Lindberg at 1/26/2008 5:56 PM and is filed under Ames Iowa,Senior,Activism,Green,green granny,Iowa,grandmother,Environment,senior activism 
Editor: Since Joyce and I are mentioned in the same AARP article, Tree Amigos: Older activists are logging on-and spreading the word, I thought it appropriate that you meet her. She was one of my first Greening the Golden Years guests in May of 2007, follow this link to the podcast: Greening the Golden Years: Meet The Green Granny!". "The Lindberg Report" is soon to become an integral part of the Green Options network of environmental journals, and the Greening the Golden Years Podcast is expected to return. In the meantime, you can read my articles and hear my podcasts on Planetsave, and I also write for Gas2.0 and Ecoscraps.
"My guest today is Joyce Emery, a resident of Ames Iowa, and a young senior who is walking her talk. Joyce has two websites, Green Granny and Green Seniors. She talks about her websites, Green Granny and Green Seniors, and what it’s like to get on a bicycle after several years, and about owning an RV that goes nowhere.
"My guest today is Joyce Emery, a resident of Ames Iowa, and a young senior who is walking her talk. Joyce has two websites, Green Granny and Green Seniors. She talks about her websites, Green Granny and Green Seniors, and what it’s like to get on a bicycle after several years, and about owning an RV that goes nowhere. 
I am amazed at the absence of any mention of our national forests in any of the eco-activists sites provided in recent AASP magazine. Just think about how important our national forests are to the environment. (Talk about impacting carbon footprint calculation!) Did you know the total area of our national forests is a little more than our original 13 colonies? Or that the number of trees dying in our national forests is growing every year and contributing hugely destructive wildlifes? It is estimated Alaska's national forests alone have lost enough trees to cover the entire state of Connecticut!
Websites, like yours, are good to have but so are national forests. Prehaps you could provide some means to tell people how important it is to support our national forests and ways that can be achieved.
Thank you,
Suzi Dow
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Thank you Suzi for the comment, and the reminder about our forests. Our writers are diverse in their interests and we do feature articles on forestation here in the U.S., but around the world.
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