Wednesday January 19, 2011

announcing my new body care & cleaning CSA

I’m very excited to tell you about something I’ve got cooking. It’s a CSA – community supported agriculture – but it’s not for food. It’s for my natural body care and cleaning solutions. I’d like to

Categories: beauty/hygiene blog cleaning health home news Tags: CSA

Thursday January 6, 2011

an exercise in mindful living

If you’ve started down the path of “greening” your home or making your lifestyle more eco-friendly you may have noticed how easy it is to get caught up in minutiae. Maybe you’ve faced dilemmas like, I

Categories: blog environment food/drink health news Tags: farming food justice

Tuesday January 4, 2011

landscapes of extraction and e-waste recycling

Right on the heels of last night’s post about Manufactured Landscapes comes this, from Manhattan User’s Guide:

J Henry Fairs‘ extraordinary, consumptively beautiful, sickening photos of our ailing planet are gathered in a new book The Day

Categories: art/craft blog environment events Tags: art e-waste recycling

Tuesday January 4, 2011

every thing you own was made by human hands

Or at least parts of it were and then they were assembled, packaged, transported, and sold by humans. And every thing you (and I) have in your possession required energy – extracted and refined fossil fuels

Categories: blog environment health Tags: e-waste mining recycling

Saturday January 1, 2011

it’s a new dawn, it’s a new day…

I’ve been reflecting on the idea of harmony, in large part because I’m reading Prince Charles’ book by that name. What the Prince of Wales suggests – I’m paraphrasing here – is that we have fallen

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