I wish I could say that things were moving along at a nice clip, but we’ve been swamped with homework, garage work, and wow–what a horrible, allergy-ridden spring! All that aside, I feel pretty blessed with some new additions to the food-family:

Paw paw trees (this on had a break, but it is so young [...]

This past Sunday was also the start of adbuster’s Mental Detox Week. I sometimes think, wow, wouldn’t be amazing to just turn it all off? I wonder how long I’d last? It would be awkward at first, but when I think of how easy it is for me to give this sort [...]

Looking forward to having more time in upcoming weeks. I can’t wait for classes to finish!!

We celebrated national library week where I work. One of our speakers gave a presentation on green cleaning–thought you all might appreciate the resource list I pulled together for the event! At the very least, have efforts go towards more than one cause.
Chemical lookup and consumer resources
• Cleaner Solutions Database (Toxics Use Reduction Institute [...]

Remember this commercial?

I don’t need a new car (not that we’ve been treating our current new car with any respect), but something about this…Nick Drake helps, of course. I want my path to be my destination.

About trash vortices
Rubbish Vortex on fig.
Gooseflesh blog
article on Time Out

I’ve am addicted to reading Wisebread.  A few articles that caught my eye:
How to buy stuff that lasts forever
10 ways to be nicer to the environment and your wallet
 What if foreigers quit lending the U.S. money?

Random start: I just love this photo–it was taken back in September, 2005–the year I was stressed out about work and felt that I had to limit the garden to the plot immediately behind the house. Despite that “limitation,” look at all that came up. Ah…
For good measure, I thought I’d include a [...]

In 2004, I started a blog (many, oh, the multiple personalities) called Responsible Shopper. My goal was to try living without sweatshop produced, non-local food, china-made Anythings. I documented things for 3 months, and it was not an easy endeavor. The hardest part was working around my husband. If you are [...]

First, care for the earth (because the earth sustains us). Second, care for the people. Third, recycle all resources towards the earth and the people.–Ecospace.cc

Urban Farms Open Doors
Growing trend brings beauty, bounty and hope to city dwellers.
Published: December 18, 2007 @ 02:20 PM CST from the January/February 2008 issue of GRIT.
Truly, a wonderful article–re: the Urban Farm Tour last summer. Good work, Farmers!

Oh…I can’t wait for this semester to be over with…May 9th! In the meantime:

Oh, just having some antiblogspam letter verification fun while the First Wednesday Disaster Alert echos through town.