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

Wednesday June 15, 2011

a weed is a plant out of place

Jewelweed, ally against poison ivy.

I love city life. I can step out of my apartment building door and arrive at just about any place I please in as little as 5 minutes, without getting in a

Categories: agriculture blog Tags: animals farming foraging herbs nature water wildlife

Thursday November 4, 2010

no new clothing challenge

(Image: Posh Girl Vintage)

I dare you to buy no new clothes for the next 3 months!

(GASP!) Is it possible? You can bet your bottom dollar it is. I buy just about all of my clothes from

Categories: blog fashion recycling Tags: clothing energy natural resources textiles waste water

Friday January 8, 2010

can you see the sea?

Check out my latest post on Aribra!

From where I live, I can hear cruise ships sound warnings in the night. I can see sea gulls pausing in church towers. Sometimes, I think I can even smell

Categories: blog Tags: natural resources water

Monday December 14, 2009

i do 30, do you?

Some like it hot, but I like it cold. The water temp setting on my washing machine, that is. That baby is locked in at the cold position for every load of wash. If everyone in

Categories: blog energy environment home Tags: climate change water

Saturday November 14, 2009

restoring the ecuadorian amazon with mycoremediation

Macrolepiota procera [image: Wikipedia]

Between 1964 and 1992, Texaco (now Chevron) dumped over 18.5 billion gallons of oil in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Birth defects, cancer rates and general malaise are exceedingly common in the city of Lago

Categories: blog environment health Tags: environment health mushrooms permaculture petroleum pollution social justice soil water

Thursday September 17, 2009

hop on the waterpod while you still can

Have you caught a glimpse of that fantastic vessel, the one growing squash & tomatoes & chickens? The one that composts, harvests rainwater & sustains its shipmates? Perhaps you have, perhaps you’ve stepped on board. But

Categories: agriculture art/craft blog community education events Tags: art fun gardens nyc permaculture urban agriculture water

Wednesday August 26, 2009

skills to pay the bills (or at least save a little dough)

Got a hankerin’ to make stuff, but don’t know how? In a time when people are pinching pennies out of necessity or just to consume less for the good of the planet, it helps to know

Categories: art/craft blog education food/drink recycling Tags: composting cooking drinking eating fun gardens water

Wednesday August 19, 2009

do chickens get seasick?

Below the BQE, in a barren industrialized part of Brooklyn, was docked the Waterpod…

Do chickens get seasick? Does sea air help or hinder the tomatoes? If you get a chance to visit the Waterpod – 3,000

Categories: agriculture blog community recycling Tags: animals brooklyn/nyc composting gardens nyc sustainable water

Wednesday July 22, 2009

is the gowanus canal really sponge worthy?

The Gowanus Canal Issues, dlandstudio

Most New Yorkers, especially Brooklynites, know the beloved Gowanus Canal is teeming with nasty things: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), petroleum, raw sewage, and even gonorrhea. Since the late 1800s, the canal has been

Categories: action blog environment health outdoors Tags: brooklyn/nyc nyc pollution water