Monthly Archives: March 2010

The Naturalistic Fallacy

Today is World Water Day, which makes me feel like I should be writing something about water.  Here’s a bit about water that I wrote while fasting in solidarity with the Climate Justice Fasters before COP15 (and more about it here as part of the same effort).  But I honestly don’t have anything new to…

Back to School, International Style


A couple of months ago on Twitter, someone sent out a link to the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), which was about to open applications for their Intro to Sustainable Engineering class.  I think it was @kaskadia

House, Now With Fruit Trees!

I’ve been absent, I know.  I promise it’s for a good reason.  If you follow me on Twitter (or know me in real life), you already know what my good reason is.

Openly Balanced moved!  Or at least I did.  Fortunately, I only had to move down the street into an identical house.  But now we own it, which has been a surprising shift (more on that later). 

Doing Good Consciously

Today I am thrilled to welcome a guest post from someone I really wish I had met before I left DC.  Beth Oppenheim-Chan is a blogger over at 25 and Trying, where she writes about her career in the nonprofit world, life, and a bit of international development sprinkled in.  Feel free to connect with…