Note: Posting will be light the next two weeks, as the crazy Passover preparation insanity hits full swing, and then, so does Pesach. Plus I just accidentally lost a long post on marriage, gay and straight, and its role in the Long Emergency. I spent two freakin’ weeks on this, hit a wrong key and then […]
I constantly need to review the things I have learned. So today I am reviewing all the practices we use to keep our impact numbers low.
Garbage is an easy category for us. I try to buy foods with as little packaging as possible. Paper bags for bulk foods, cardboard boxes, newspaper, and mail all get […]
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My 5 Today:
Friends make the list every week because I have awesome friends that add something to my existence every day. I’m so grateful for the support, diversity, laughter, activity, constancy, spontaneity, challenge, and joy.
my gym. I work out at the Y, which has great programs for every income level. This […]
So obviously last month’s challenge got me thinking a lot about plastic. Mostly, I was amazed to discover that this simple polymer that was first discovered less than 100 years ago is now so ensconced in our daily lives.Plastic is so pervasive it is di…
Inspired by my experience with the Dark Days Eat Local challenge, I am now participating in the far easier One Local Summer — participants agree to cook at least one meal per week entirely out of local ingredients, excluding salt, spices, and cooking oil. For the purposes of this, I’m defining “local” as “from within […]
I have to apologize for the title - I know most of my readers come here for the cheery, uplifting approach that I have, and that the above is a bit of a shock. I did seriously consider titling this post “Cute Bunnies, Kittens and the Sunshine on my Shoulder” but it seemed too cruel […]
Crunchy Chicken can always be counted upon to lay out a great challenge.I just signed up for Buy Nothing Month. This is the kind of challenge I’ve been thinking of doing since I heard about Buy Nothing Day and then read the fabulous book by Judith Le…
Matt spent the better part of six hours in front of the television last night watching the coverage of the primaries. (”This is way better than the Olympics,” said he.) He switched between three different channels: CBS, CBC (which did a small piece on the MCDC that happened to be shot entirely in Kansas City […]
I was looking at a book “Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity” during Meeting this past weekend. I was inspired by a passage:
If simplicity of living is a valid principle, there in one important precaution and condition of its application. I can explain it best by something that Mahatma Gandhi said to me. We […]
Recently I was inspired by a post by Sara at Walk Slowly, Live Wildly about nomads, yurts, and simple living. Sara and her small family spent many months this year touring around the US in a camper running on veggie oil. The girl knows about living in close quarters, a lifestyle that necessitates keeping around […]
