This year we’re taking a vow: We will try to grow at least half of our food in a garden that costs us absolutely nothing to create and maintain. In order to achieve this goal, we are initiating a new concept: No-cost gardening.
Home-grown food is essentially green in so many different ways. First, it [...]
This week’s Do One Thing involves outdoor lighting. Many people, come nightfall, turn on their outside lights and leave them on all night. (We have a neighbor like that, but they live far enough away that it doesn’t affect us too much) Not only is this a waste of electricity, but it also [...]
Yea, “imagine” is right…Monsanto seems to think they can pledge more sustainable agriculture and we won’t notice all the harm they have done to the worlds food supply. “That’s sustainable agriculture. And that’s what Monsanto seeds are all about.” Um, no – it’s not.
Talk about greenwashing. There is a great campaign called Millions [...]
In this month’s print edition of Sunset magazine, there is a great article about a family in San Francisco who started a great community-based greening project in their neighborhood. Knowing they were going to raise children in the city, near a busy road, they worked hard on slowing down traffic AND greening up their neighborhood. [...]
Now how cool is this? Leslie from WaterCheck just sent me a Doulton GSS Mini Gravity Water Filter Purifier to test out and review, and I am very glad he did. This filter is totally portable, made from stainless steel, and requires no electricity to work – it works by gravity alone. [...]
Unfortunately people only start to panic when something like this might directly affect them, which is why we normally don’t worry about the fact that millions of people die from conditions like starvation every year – we don’t see it. We don’t worry too much about malnutrition, malaria or sanitary conditions in Third World [...]
Many years ago, I dated a girl who only wore an item once before throwing it in the hamper. Even her bath towels were only used once before being washed! There was a constant stream of laundry being done in her house, using thousands and thousands of gallons of water per year, along [...]
