“You’re not getting to be one of these cranks who think that eating people is cruel, are you? Seeing the man sitting in the pot and you think he’s suffering. Oh, it’s not like that at all. Why, he’s just had an invigourating chase through the forest, sitting there in [...]
I could cry that I missed this! And that I can’t take him home.
Which reminds me, a friend pointed me to this story (subscription only) from Seattle. Here’s the important part:
“The Seattle City Council voted unanimously to reclassify the [...]
I just now noticed that Slate has announced it’s rolling out a green advice column. The actual debut is supposed to be tomorrow.
I like what columnist Brendan I. Koerner has to say about what he’ll be up to. The short version:
1. There are [...]
A local correspondent has pointed me to an unsettling article (not accessible online) in the September-October issue of Audubon. It’s about those tree-planting carbon-offset programs, where you pay someone, somewhere, to plant a tree to cancel out all the carbon you’re responsible for sending into the atmosphere [...]
The New York Times has discovered city chickens. Also, had a laff about the new “chick lit.” I liked this bit:
“People who raise chickens just for eggs are likely to develop personal relationships with their birds, giving them names [...]
I felt a little bit like the witch in Hansel and Gretel when I visited my compost bin this morning. Somebody wanted very badly to get in overnight:
And really, when you see what I’ve been cooking in there, how could you [...]
Brought to you by guest blogger Dawn Hewitt, on whose clothes I’ve never yet seen a blotch of bird poop:
Replacing conventional natural gas or electric appliances with solar-powered ones isn’t cheap. Sure, they can save money over the long haul and pay big rewards in [...]
For an upcoming guest contribution from my colleague Dawn, who will extol the virtues of her solar clothes dryer. There could even be pictures!
[...]I think maybe my late summer slump is over.
After hot, limp weeks of barely keeping house at all, let alone venturing into new green territory, I actually built something this week: a two-chambered backyard compost bin. It’s pretty ramshackle, being built planlessly from [...]
My dad loves his food–he may not be a card-carrying member, but he’s certainly a Slow-Food-symp–but he also loves his contrarian logic. So it was clearly with mixed feelings that he told me the other day about a study out of [...]
Wow, Project Runway has nothing on these people.
These may not be the most practical solutions to the problem of zillions of plastic grocery bags for the ordinary time-pressed shopper, although that fusing tutorial looks sort of doable, and might be a faster [...]
Forget about the exorcist! Who cares about the fire! Kroger’s going to be selling worm poop!
Press release excerpt after the jump.
[...]Here’s more on the hazards of common household cleaners, via a lovely site.
Just another reminder that smelling like cleaning products is not the same thing as being clean.
[...]Just a very short note to say that I am now harvesting my cherry tomatoes at a rate of 12 to 15 every other day or so, and they are most delicious. But my tomato plant is looking pretty tired. Is that normal? Or am I a [...]
Mike Leonard’s column about local lawn rebel Alex Gul has generated lots of online comments–some more helpful/relevant/delightful to read than others.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal–not exactly the mouthpiece of greendom–had this interesting piece on organic lawn care. I took special note of [...]
Boy, I will not soon forget the look on my mother’s face when she saw that I had purchased a package, wrapped in plastic, of cotton rags. This is my very same mother who if she by any unfortunate chance has to use a paper towel, will then assess whether [...]
I heard a story today about a woman who used this great thing to find happy homes for all the belongings of her adult son, who may have slightly outstayed his welcome in the maternal nest.
The local group has some 2,400 members, so someone [...]
