Uneasy Rhetoric

An AP article by J. M. Hirsch I read in September 3rd’s Ashaland Daily Tidings said “Slow Food needs to ease off gourmet.”  The article, about the recent Slow Food Nation festival in San Francisco, took the movement to task for its focus on high-brow cuisine and expensive foods. The writer said, I think rightly, that the [...]

The NY Times has an article on five simple ways to go organic.  Briefly, they are:

Milk
Potatoes
Peanut Butter
Ketchup
Apples

Milk is easy. Just about every supermarket carries at least one organic milk brand.  At Nugget you can get Horizon or Crystal. At Safeway you can get Horizon or their store-brand organic. It is a little more expensive but [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about deep ecology. The concept of “deep ecology” is highly philosophical, but at the application level, in a superficial nutshell, deep ecology is a fundamental shift in behavior and attitudes to bring them to a point where they are more in harmony with the environment.  Shallow ecology is doing [...]

In my never ending quest to bust the chops of each and every “ways to save gas” list that doesn’t list “drive less” or “walk more” as a way, I give you this list of 29 ways to save gas. Check out numbers 25 and 26:

Drive less
Here comes the discussion we don’t like to [...]

LJ Urban quotes a post from another blog about the benefits of line drying. In addition to being green, line drying will save you some green. If your dryer is in the house, it will also eliminate one source of heat. We’ve been doing something like line drying since about mid-May. [...]