“Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.”~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)I wish I knew who took this photo, If you know please let …

Overwhelmed by all the wide-ranging eco-advice for greening your holidays? Then keep it simple by focusing on this: The No Plastic Holiday Challenge.
Organized by Amy Gates, a.k.a. the Crunchy Domestic Goddess, The No Plastic Holiday Challenge is simple: Try to de-plastick your holidays. After all, every bit of …

It is a dark day here.  I sit with my head in my hands, the cold rough stone under me, the loose leaves clattering and swirling in the wind as it tosses through the bare temple.  This temple is Apollo’s, but the sky is gray, the rain is …

There are so many things great about America and one of my favorites is Thanksgiving holiday, and this is my favorite thanksgiving poem for you:

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Cities around the US are starting to embrace solar power in some pretty interesting ways.  Last week Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa unveiled an ambitious long-range plan for producing enough solar power to meet one-tenth of the city’s energy needs by 2020.  Villaraigosa is launching this initiative to help wean …

  With Thanksgiving around the corner and Christmas upcoming, this article is going to talk about using homeopathic remedies for aiding in digestion of the Thanksgiving and holiday party dinners. 

If any of these conditions persist for more than several days, please see your physician. In the case

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Hello World! —- and please excuse my mess…. I’m obviously tinkering with the site right now, and you’re likely to stumble upon it while the dirt is still out.
Hopefully this won’t last too long!
—- Ben!

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Written by Brian Liloia, courtesy of GreenBuildingElements.com
 
Earthen plasters provide a beautiful, soft, and an organic finishing touch to your home’s walls, whether they be straw bale, cob, wood, or even sheetrock. A simple natural plaster can be mixed from ingredients straight from the earth, including sand, clay, and …

I was browsing my bookmarks accumulated over a couple of years, both on the browser and in sites devoted to saving and organizing them. Like many people, I added bookmarks as pointers to pages which are interesting to read but reading which I postponed or for pages I’d …

Americans haul 82 million tons of trash to recycling centers each year. But does it pay off—for the environment or the economy? Popular Mechanics has some real answers.
Written by Alex Hutchinson, appearing in the December issue of Popular Mechanics
The modern era of recycling began in the meandering wake …

NO violence — even in self-defense.
A few months ago, I mentioned off-handedly that my feelings about violence were close to that of Gandhi and Tolstoy.  Kate Gladstone asked me about this in the comments, mentioning a book called THE RING by Piers Anthony, in which he describes a …

Hi readers! Great new - my dad is in London!
Not only that, but Tim got me a sweet Christmas present to enjoy during my dad’s visit (and beyond) - a Panasonic Lumix Lx3!
I’m going to be busy taking loads of pictures with my dad this week - …