TechnoEarthMama

I saw an item in Google Reader the other day about the EcoChallenge being held by the Northwest Earth Institute (NWEI). This event challenges people to make some kind of eco-change for two weeks, and to collect pledges from family and friends for doing so. The money goes to support the NWEI.
I don’t really like [...]

Hi, my name is Kathleen, and I’m a soda addict. Or a sugar and caffeine addict. Or is it the high fructose corn syrup?
Anyway, every once in a while I go soda-free. It’s occasionally lasted months at a time! But I always go back on the soda. Lately, I’ve been trying to replace the soda [...]

“You’re not a car,” he called out sorrowfully as he passed in the opposite lane while I waited for a green light.
More than 24 hours later, I’d still like to shake that man. Yes, I was in the car lane, and yes, that is perfectly legal. It would also have been legal for me to [...]

Sustainable living isn’t all about recycling, bicycling, or any other kind of cycling. It isn’t just eating local and organic and Doing the Right Thing For the Environment.
There are other kinds of sustainability. We need to live in an economically sustainable way, for instance, rather than depending on other people’s consumerism for a living.
And we [...]

I bought a Sunburst Squash at the farmers’ market the other day, even though I’d never seen one before! They’re gorgeous and sunshiny, and looking at them made me smile. PD Farms was selling them along with their usual meat products, so I bought one to make my purchase an even dollar amount.
Later, I looked [...]

Last year around this time, I was struggling to get the kids to daycare and school and myself to work by bike.  All I had was my old yellow bike. I didn’t have a child seat or trailer on it.
We got everyone into jackets and backpacks. The big girls put on helmets and were ready [...]

I was grousing this week about how much packaging Apple uses on its iMacs. You might not notice it so much if you only bought one, but when you have thirty-two to set up, as I did at work, it’s pretty obvious.

Here’s how the process went:

Open outer cardboard box.
Pull out small box containing keyboard, mouse, [...]