This year, we made all of our Christmas gifts. The little guy helped out on every one of them. We had a blast making each one and already have tweaks we want to make next year. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Christmas Cards Beeswax ornaments Finn helping Lip balm Peppermint Patties Finn-dough Happy Christmas! [...]
We wanted to make some window boxes and we knew that our friends over at The Urban Farmers Almanac had some wood leftover from a deck project last summer. We decided to see if we could get together and make some sustainability magic happen. It did. Oh did it. Not only did they have an [...]
Not only are our lives always changing, but some things are changing here at One-Change.com. First, and most notably, Mollie and I have welcomed a wonderful baby boy into our family. Huge life changes always prompt us to take stock in our lives. Evaluate the direction that we’re headed. Mollie started this blog in December [...]
I promised more posts spawned from my summer reading of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and I’m sorry it’s taken me so long. I have a notebook full of notes and am getting around to pushing them through the blog machine to get to you. Cooking at home seems to be a dying art. Even ‘foodies’ often [...]
Apple unveiled it’s new campaign to promote it’s new line of laptop computers. They call it the greenest notebook Apple has ever created. They have also released their Environmental Report for 2008 which outlines and gives environmental information about their products and facilities. Some highlights about the new line of MacBooks and MacBook Pro laptops [...]
The Seattle City Council approved a proposal (by a 6-1 margin) that will charge shoppers 20 cents for each plastic shopping bag they use. This is great news. The fee will go into effect in January. Opponents of this proposal have said that it taxes those who cannot afford to purchase reusable bags. So to [...]
So I just finished ?Animal, Vegetable, Miracle? by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven Hopp and Camille Kingsolver. What a good book. It talks about their year spent on their farm in Virginia as ?locavores?, that is people who are committed to eating locally. In their case, they planned on planting produce as well as raising livestock. The [...]
Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know that we’re still here, we’ve been traveling this summer. It’s provided us with a lot of different perspectives. Going to other places in our world helps us see our home in a different light, but also learn new and different things about the world. It’s also [...]
I’m happy to say that our hometown Seattle Mariners are doing their part in efforts to take responsibility for the carbon emissions related to their operations. This takes into account travel (for teams, umpires, fans and all people involved), electrical and natural gas resources used in operating the stadium, and all waste produced from the [...]
image courtesy of kixandthecity.com Last night Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash debuted his new shoes. This time his Nike’s were a little different. They were made from scraps from other basketball shoes. I know that Nike has long been the bad guy in the world of footwear due to labor and environmental practices, but let’s [...]