Since it’s Wednesday (and sometimes I do this on Wednesdays), I thought I’d share a great TED video in which chef and scholar Dan Barber gives us a glimpse of a new/old kind of sustainable farming. It’s definitely worth watching, even if you’re not a foodie. And even if foie gras ...
As you know, my One Small Change for March was to drive less. Let’s just say that I failed. Okay, fine. So I didn’t fail. I expected that simply giving up my horse lease as a recreational activity cut my gas usage by 3/4 automatically. It actually ended up being pretty close to that: I ...
Alright, I’ll be honest. I kind of feel like I’m copping out on this one because it’s not as “big” as my last couple of small changes. But that’s why it’s one small change. Right? That’s what I’m telling myself. I’ll do a more in-depth update and discussion of last month’s small change –
Last week, I posted about the naturalistic fallacy, and why it’s important to avoid falling back on this kind of reasoning. But then I started thinking about intuition, and how much I actually value what my intuition has to say. Where Science Fails… As important as it is to give science the consideration it deserves, ...
This post is my contribution to Sustainablog's Pedal-a-Watt Powered Blogathon this weekend. The long-running green blog (and new green shopping site) is publishing for 24 hours straight to raise funds for the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Northeastern Missouri. Go join the fun: read post contributions from around the green blogosphere, leave ...
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 ...
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…
And the winner of my copy of The Transition Handbook is… comment #4 - Shaunta Alburger (whose has a lovely blog - Live Once, Juicy). Congrats! E-mail me ...
If you’re a regular reader, you know that I’ve been babbling on about the Transition initiative for several weeks now. I finally slogged through the last section of the book (which yes, does get a little slow) and tapped out my review. Then my computer exploded and ...
Last week I wrote a bit about resilience, what it means, and why people are talking about it so much these days. If you’re anything like me, you nodded, said “I get it, I get it…” and immediately moved on to the next obvious question: “What makes a community resilient?” According to the Transition ...
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