I’m at a point where I’m about ready to surrender to the circumstances that be and leave my growing menagerie of houseplants to their fate (which is to say, to an aggressive white mold, swarming fungus gnats, and possibly some type of mite). If it were up to me, I might just scrap it, toss [...]
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Epic Garden Fail
Posted in Environment, Family, Finances, Health, Self-Examination on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What If We’re Wrong
Posted in Environment, Family, Fulfillment, Health on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’d say I fall squarely in the Global-Climate-Change-is-real-and-we-need-to-do-something-about-it camp. I’m probably more of a pragmatic environmentalist, but I worry over wasting water, drive a tiny, gas-sipping Aveo, and want to make my garden bigger every year. I support renewable power, conservation, etc. I’m also smart enough to realize I could be wrong.
The climate change we’re [...]
350.org
Posted in Environment, Link, News, Politics on June 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
And I’m back!
Today, I’m here to help spread the word about 350.org. They’re message is simple but also surprisingly hard to get out: We need to reach and maintain an atmospheric carbon dioxide level of 350 parts per million in order to have a healthy and stable planet on which to live. Current, the level [...]
Blog: The No Impact Man
Posted in Environment, Family, Finances, Fulfillment, Link, Relationships, tagged Environment, Family, Finances, Fulfillment, Link, Relationships on March 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For a while now one of my favorite blogs has been No Impact Man, the ongoing writings of a liberal environmentalist who got sick of waiting for the world to change and decided to change himself. He set out over a year to drop his net environmental impact to zero (very little negative impact plus [...]
