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This is me with my very good friend Shannon Dealy.  Every year Shannon does demos at the local technology festival of Cobb construction techniques.
Shannon lives in a 70 sq ft. cobb cottage and he also has a larger cobb structure on his property which I helped him build about four years ago.
Here is [...]

We have exceeded 350 parts per million (ppm) of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere, and bad things are happening to the planet.   Scientists have determined that below 350 ppm the bad things will reverse. All of humanity should be focusing on what we individually and collectively can do to get that [...]

We are lucky to live in Oregon, a very progressive state regarding environmentalism. (At least people from all the other states think so until they move here and get involved in the constant wrangling.) My family personally have been composting in a happy-go-lucky fashion for 21 years. Basically what we do [...]

Pictures of central old school food market in Monterrey, N.L. Mexico

amaranth
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This is the first post I am composing directly in FlickR— Woot! About eight years ago I planted some red amaranth in my garden. The fully mature red amaranth plant is a showy purple red affair with a large (OK I have to say this) phallic shaped seed cluster that [...]

Pictures from our local farmer’s market.  I got there a tad late, so a lot of the booths were looking kind of skimpy.  I still managed to pick up Maitake mushrooms and green snap peas and I’m so glad to see the market doing so well that the farmers don’t have much to take back [...]

This video is not short, sweet, nor hilarious, but it is highly informative. Corrine from Gourmet Love Affair put me on to this.
Rate this: 3.5

an important (if maybe a little over the top) video about Big Pharma murdering millions of Americans

Just received this from the Sierra club mailing list:
For the next 21 days, in an effort to eat more consciously, Oprah is going vegan. She will be eliminating caffeine, sugar, alcohol, gluten and animal products from her diet for 21 days. She has already exclaimed “Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could [...]

One of the topics in this blog is sustainability. I’m spreading this video teaser from The Story of Stuff just to make you think twice next time you go out shopping. This is something I believe very strongly in. The consumer culture has been shown time [...]