by Annette Olson | Aug 5, 2022 | At home, Biodiversity, Buildings, Community, Culture Change, Energy, Outdoors, Outside, Personal Behavior, Politics, Resources
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...
by Mark Stewart | Jul 26, 2021 | At home, Buildings, Collective, Community, Culture Change, Energy, Guest blogger, minimization/mitigation, Outdoors, Outside, Personal Behavior, Resources, travel
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.
by Annette Olson | Apr 14, 2020 | At home, Food, Outside, Personal Behavior, Uncategorized
Need a list of things you can do to save the planet while stuck at home or in the yard, self-isolating? Well, there’s no need to binge-watch shows you aren’t interested in. Instead …
by Annette Olson | Nov 20, 2019 | At home, Outside, survival/adaptation
Trees. Gorgeous and calming, providing homes for birds and other life, they also help clean the air of carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. And, if planted in a city or in your backyard, will cool during the summer and warm in the winter. So here’s a brief list of...
by Annette Olson | Nov 10, 2019 | At home, Food, Personal Behavior
As I sit huddled in a fluffy robe, unwilling to turn on the boiler yet because it is just too early in the season to turn on the heat (and because it requires moving some stuff in the basement first), I contemplate the many other ways I have and still need to do keep...
