Throw a vegan-ingredient tasting party!
So what’s perhaps the biggest barrier to eating vegan food especially? Probably a lack of familiarity. Many people may see vegan ingredients or dishes in the …
The 10th anniversary of my beautiful green roof! Booyah!
It is hard to believe that it has been 10 years already for the green roof on my house, as of this past weekend. (I was on a train and couldn’t write this all out then.) You can get a peek of the greenery from the front of my house (see left), but there...
A Fascination on Ice
I’m a neophyte iceologist, just a few years in to studying one of the beauties I love most, keenly aware of its fragility, the rarity of clear ice …
Waste Basket
Reflection, in Honor of Plastic-Free July. This is a waste basket, the kind made out of waste. The broken base of it came from the free box of a garage sale last Saturday. The plastic ribbons are single-use plastic packaging used to ship construction materials: three...
Tiny Houses Fight Global Warming
Tiny houses have been around for as long as humans have sought shelter, but lately they are becoming a more popular choice in housing internationally, offering alternatives for people who want their own house but, for a variety of reasons, don’t want a traditional, single-family home.
Stripes and Stories
“….this past winter the ground never froze, so we have a banner year for destructive insects…”