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08/04/2008
Interview #1: Earth Saver Miquette Bishop
Earth Savers Parent Interview Series will be published every Monday throughout the summer. We will focus on interviewing both well known and unknown parents.
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Miquette Bishop: Active mother, entrepreneur, and artist living in Saunderstown Rhode Island with her Husband Pete Zuerner,(a fine furniture maker http://www.zuernerdesign.com/) Her Three Girls Miranda age 17, Zoe age 8 and Molly age 4 , her Mother Yia-Yia age 69; and 2 Dogs, 4 cats, 1 love bird and several chickens, a rooster, and 1 bee hive with many bee’s.
Can be found on a Friday night: with a glass of wine in her hand hanging out with friends or family.
I called Miquette on the phone for this particular interview but visited with her last night and took the attached picture. I know Miquette well and have always been influenced and inspired by her deeply caring heart and nurturing ways. The woman is a mean gardener, ridiculously creative, relentlessly passionate about topics she believes in and can build anything with her own two hands including artwork, patios, decks, chicken coops, gardens, and can make any plot of land turn into an oasis of color, and beauty. Miquette formerly founded Miquette Online (an online resource and ecommerce site that was dedicated to organic clothing for babies and young children) and has her graduate degree in education from Sun bridge College in New York.
MR: “Miquette What does global warming mean to you?”
MQ: “It’s scares me to death because it’s a realization that the world is getting a little out of control and people need to calm down. It scares me that we are capable of huge devastation to our world ….and it’s all we have. I’m not sure people are acting consciously anymore. It frightens me because my parents did not prepare me for this stuff. I think our generation is very accustomed to disposable things and I don't think it's really hitting people that the world is not a disposable item that we can go out and get another one at Walmart when it's broken. I have a very very hard time even talking about it…I’d rather be in denial.”
(There is a heavy silence and a pregnant pause)
MQ: “Have you ever had Post Partum Depression?”
MR: “yes…with my first child….”
MQ: “ Well, It hit’s me like post partum depression if I start to really think about it….
I feel helpless, and tired, and overwhelmed…and I just want to lay down and go to sleep. I almost can’t know to much about global warming at once. I can’t go there for my own sanity’s sake. It’s really devastating to me”
MR “Can you tell me more about that?”
MQ: “My fear is that there are not enough people in this world thinking about climate change and what it will mean for our children and I don’t want to go to that place where I think there is no hope.”
MR: “Are there places or people that give you hope and inspiration?”
MQ: Yes, I like to watch some uplifting film, Youtube – I think you can find some powerful content from people who are out there creating compelling and digestible videos to share with others. I also like www.moveon.org but even that can be too much for me to bear and I have to be selective about what I read”
MR: “Why is this – that you have to be selective?"
MQ: “I like to find the little loop holes where real information lives and I am selective of what I read because I don’t really trust mainstream media and newspapers to give me the news in a way that makes me feel empowered. There is too much devastation in the news, and for me to survive I have to find the loopholes in the media that keep my faith in humanity- the stories of what IS happening and the people who ARE
