Tuesday November 20th
6:00am Husband(DH) wakes up and grazes in kitchen.
6:30am DH wakes up daughter(DD) and gets her ready for school including making a lunch
7:05am DH and DD head off to school on a special tandem bike that DH outfitted so 7 year old DH can pedal in the back. She runs a mile before school […]
“Une Riot Iz An Ugly Zink” - Inspector Kemp”Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.” - James RestonI joined the Riot 4 Austerity a few months ago in an attempt to provide myself with some concrete goals to reach for as I try to […]
Inspired by Sharon’s recent post calling for rioters to outline their daily low-impact lives on the Riot for Austerity, I figured that I might also post a day in my life.
Recently, we’ve been out of town–first on a family emergency and then on vacation, and it was very difficult maintaining any semblance of low-impact […]
(note: this is from yesterday, as this wouldn’t post yesterday and I thought this was lost…)
In spite of the recent turmoil, I’m still with the 90% reduction (aka Riot for Austerity) program. One meme we’re doing is showing each other what a typical day is like. Not tremendously interesting, but here goes:
I normally get up […]
Recently, Sharon of Casaubon’s Book suggested that people involved with the riot post about a day in the life of Rioting. Here goes:
12:00 am - Sammy is awake and is hungry. I sleepily roll out of bed and pull him into mine to feed him. I fall back asleep.
4:00 am - I need to get […]
A few days ago there was an open invitation by the writer of Casaubon’s Book to write about your day living with a smaller carbon footprint. Here’s what I did yesterday:
By the battery-powered clock on the mantle it is 5:10 when I hear my 14-year-old dog pacing – she needs to go outside, so […]
I would have woken up just before 5am and saw that it was light and consciously decided that all the things that I have not been able to do in the past week or so are not more important than lying in bed for a bit longer. I returned to sleep, only to […]
by Sue B.
6:30 am: R rolls out of bed. It’s an hour later than usual for him, but yesterday we made what is certain to be our last woodcutting trip of the year, and it was a physically exertive day, and we’re both really tired. We’ve been having very mild temperatures the […]
Here’s my typical day trying to reach the Riot for Austerity goals (more examples here). I’m at about 90% in all areas except water and electricity. I suspect that to get all the way down to 90% in these areas…
http://rebbyribs.livejournal.com/162152.html#cutid1
The Riot For Austerity 90% reduction group started a website and one of the features in it is “A Day In The Low Impact Life”. I thought I’d write one of ours out to contribute.
02:00 - There’s crying coming from the other room, which means that Iris is awake and suffering the combined indignities of […]
