Like so many other people, I have been wasting too much time on a Facebook game called Farmville. While I have not yet reached the point of awakening in the middle of the night to harvest my virtual crops (sleep is sacred in this house), there are some mornings where the ...
Saturday afternoon, I headed over to the Blue Line March in downtown Olympia. Coordinated through 350.org's International Climate Action Day, the intent of the march was to trace the potential future waterline downtown. All in all, it was a good event with a good turn out. There were ...
In the interest of preserving my mental health, I usually try to ignore the news at least one day a week. I find I need an occasional break from the constant influx of information and the glare and hum of my beloved laptop. I often choose Sunday as my day off. It tends to be ...
What are you doing to get below 350? Cryptic? Maybe. But it shouldn't be. It is time for everyone to know what 350 means. And that's what October 24th, the International Day of Climate Action, is all about. What is 350? 350 is the magic number. 350 is the line we have to get back to ...
Last Thursday was Blog Action Day: Climate Change. Thousands of bloggers from around the world, across countries and across topics, took a day to blog about climate change. It was a profound example of the power of collected action -- nearly 32,000 posts reached an estimated 17 million people. But as I ...
I promised that for Blog Action Day '09, we would hear from my greyhounds on the issue of climate change. Well, my friends, they did not disappoint. Superman said that he would really like to take advantage of some of the available tax incentives for alternative energy construction. He then ...
Continuing with my ever-popular theme of connecting cute animals with environmental issues, tomorrow I will be answering the question, "What do these greyhounds think about climate change?" Tomorrow, October 15th, is Change.org's Blog Action Day '09. This ...
I got a package in the mail! And really, who among us doesn't like getting a package and need to share that fact with all three of her readers? A couple of weeks ago, Kelly Whalen at
Last week (or maybe the week before by now - I am slow!), The Ten Reasons They Hate You So made the rounds in a couple of sustainable agriculture social networking circles. I was astonished to learn that, as a liberal arts educated advocate of sustainable agriculture, I hate farmers. In order to ...
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