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Gah, I hate all those catalogs that pour in this time of year! I just signed up at Catalog Choice, which is free. I don’t feel I should have to PAY for the privilege of not receiving this crap, but this video mentions some of the other services available that do charge:

Save the trees! Save [...]

I love this little video that packs a lot of great information about the energy costs of our food:

Thanks to Small Failures for the link.

Three weeks ago, I unplugged the idiot tube as part of the 90% reduction challenge, and then something odd happened: I started to like it. After a few days the incessant voices repeating slogans and jingles in my head began to fade away, and I could hear my own thoughts for a change. What a [...]

Sunday July 1st 2007: One Hour NO Power
At midday on Sunday July 1st 2007 we are asking everyone concerned about the effects of climate change to simply turn everything (non-vital) off for an hour. That’s one hour with no cars, computers, TVs, etc. Through your support and lobbying we would also like as many businesses [...]

I forgot to take a picture of my homemade yogurt before I ate it but as you can tell, I ate it. Therefore, it passed the taste test. I sliced up a banana, added some stevia and pecans. All organic. Yummy. Not as tangy as I like, probably because I used storebought yogurt as [...]

I’m a list-making fool tonight. For one thing, I’ve narrowed down the veggies I want to grow on the balcony — the list needs more pruning. [Pruning! Get it? Me so funny.]

GROW LIST:

beets
sweet potatoes
potatoes
carrots
beans
tomatoes
onions
arugula

lettuce
dandelions
sunflowers
collard greens
chard
kale
spinach
winter squash
melons
berries

Then I decided I’d better write down all these goals and dreams that have been swimming around in my head, [...]

The nice thing about living in San Diego is that it’s never too late to start a garden. It’s just a matter of what to plant and when to plant it. Oh, and where. Kind of like the five w’s we learned in journalism class [who, what, where, when and um, how -- I know, [...]

Freedom is growing your own food. That’s the philosophy of Jules Dervaes and his three grown children. They are supporting themselves by farming almost every inch of their 1/10th-acre yard in Pasadena, California — complete with chickens, ducks and goats. Their amazing urban farm, which yields three TONS of yummy organic food per year, [...]

I need to get organized, and I’m not talking about sorting papers and decluttering my home, though I need to do that too — oy, do I! No, I’m talking about mental organization.
In the past month or so — since Earth Day, really — I’ve been obsessively reading everything I can about how to [...]

Greenpa lives without a refrigerator and has for 3 decades. He says if you live in a city- you do not need a refrigerator. AT ALL. And there are people who are trying it. Wow. I’ve just experienced a mind shift.

So I’ve decided what the hell, I’m going to join the 90% reduction challenge and, over the next year, try to cut our household emissions/consumption to BY 90% of the average American use. Since we already use less than most families, it shouldn’t be as painful for us. I hope.
I just checked our electric bill [...]