Wednesday July 6, 2011

my plastic obsession confession

UPDATE: All of the plastic bits were claimed by a budding fashion designer, Sarah, who will make plastic couture with them. I’m so excited to have found someone who’s going to put all of my trashy

Categories: action animals blog Tags: pollution recycling trash water

Friday April 29, 2011

it’s save the frogs day!

I couldn’t let this day go by without a nod to my amphibian friends (after all, raganella means tree frog in Italian). You might have heard that amphibian species are in trouble worldwide. Their numbers are

Categories: action blog Tags: conservation endangered species frogs pollution

Saturday June 26, 2010

new workshop: how to reduce petroleum use

Petroleum has made our lives incredibly convenient and comfortable, but at what cost? At no time has the evidence been more immediate to Americans that our hunger for oil has catastrophic consequences.

Join me and Julia Frodahl

Categories: action blog education environment news Tags: clean energy fossil fuels oil oil spill

Wednesday June 16, 2010

hairy solutions to an oily problem

Post-cut sweep up

I decided a couple of weeks ago it was time to cut my hair. I usually just throw it up into a ponytail anyway, so what’s the point of keeping it long? I

Categories: action beauty/hygiene blog energy environment Tags: fossil fuels oil spill

Thursday June 10, 2010

committed to a non-toxic lifestyle

I urge you to watch this series of important videos by Dr. Sanjay Gupta about how toxins are pervasive, persistent, and impacting us all, everyday.

An initial reaction to this might be easy to become paralyzed and

Categories: action beauty/hygiene cleaning environment health Tags: air quality toxins

Friday April 23, 2010

worms are going to eat my garbage!

I’m very excited. Today, I got worms. Red wigglers. The kind that eat trash – food scraps to be exact. Now I won’t have to cart my compostables to the Union Square Farmers Market (a train

Categories: action blog food/drink Tags: composting

Monday March 22, 2010

recreating wilderness with reclaimed materials

This past weekend, I participated in Urban Wilderness Action Day, part of Eyebeam’s ElectroSmog Festival. My friend Kris & her hubby Pascal put together this little video recapping my role in the day.

Check

Categories: action art/craft blog Tags: nyc trees

Monday March 15, 2010

urban wilderness action day – this saturday!

It’s been quiet on this little blog for the last couple of weeks. I’ve been hard at work on a project. An urban wilderness intervention project to be exact. It all goes down this Saturday, March

Categories: action art/craft blog Tags: fun nyc wilderness

Sunday February 28, 2010

a new f’ing wilderness

How do you envision urban wilderness? For me, this question brings to mind so many ideas and visions, of what’s wild and alive in the city today, of what was once wild and living in the

Categories: action art blog environment Tags: animals conservation habitat mushrooms nyc volunteer

Friday February 19, 2010

When will demand for virgin resources be exhausted?

This post can also be seen on Greenopolis.

Aluminum seems like a fairly innocuous and ubiquitous material. It has many applications: foil for wrapping food, take-out containers, soda cans, electronics components, appliances, cooking wares, car parts. It’s

Categories: action blog environment health Tags: ethical sourcing mining virgin materials