I am often asked why people should compost.? My general answer has been because it is better for the environment and then I usually say something about how organic materials do not break down well in landfills.? My attempt to find a better answer to this great question led me to the book Garbage Land [...]
I really want to write about this book (isn’t the cover pretty and Parisian?), but I have not been sure about whether this is the right “space” is for me to do so.? But, I decided to do it anyway because this is my blog and I can.? Also, because I figured that Molly Wizenburg [...]
Today I am sharing with you a video that has repeatedly challenged and inspired me.
The Bees: Since the cause of colony collapse disorder (CCD) is still being debated by bee keepers, researchers, and scientists we unfortunately can do little to help with the solution.? However, we do know when these kind of crises occur, it is always the small scale operations that are hit the hardest. So, what can [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I have always struggled to like, let alone love, the way I look. This is not something that is unusual for women in our culture, but it never makes it any less sad. I actually only think that the wide spread problem of this only makes it more sad. One of the sad things for [...]
One of the things Kendall and I love doing is reading out loud to each other. Most nights we crawl into bed and read our book. Actually, Kendall reads and I listen and each of us enjoys every minute of it, until, the moment comes when we can resist the deep pull of sleep no [...]
Wednesday morning it was announced that the popular eco-site treehugger was acquired by Discovery Communications. This is really exciting for the folks over at treehugger. It will give them and their content a lot of exposure. According to the press release, Discovery plans on using the site in conjunction with it’s ‘Planet Green’ programming. In [...]
photo courtesy of kallao A couple of months ago Kendall and I watched Fast Food Nation (a movie based on the book, Fast Food Nation, which I have not read) with some of our friends. It was a good movie, although there were a lot of unnecessary sex scenes which I just in general hate, [...]