May 29, 2010
I just finished Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front. It’s at least in part an eco-survivalist guide to finding your way in peak oil, climate change, and the forecasted hard times that will come from energy crisis. I don’t agree with it entirely, I have to say that I’m not as doom-and-gloom [...]
May 2, 2010
I started to wonder what all of that knitting was doing for me. What I was expressing or replacing by knitting.
July 26, 2009
It’s sobering how much stuff we have, stuff we don’t need, stuff, stuff, stuff. Never more sobering than at moving time, when it is time to sort and pack and move all of it. We got into our new place on my Birthday last week, and in the last days we have been moving things [...]
July 3, 2009
Goodness is its own reward, but now and then there are actual, physical rewards for doing the right thing. We’re moving, so I’m trying to rid myself of items that are not in use. No sense moving them. The other week, I went on a Wednesday morning to pick up some flowers at the Ann [...]
June 17, 2009
Ok, so I made a sweater once. It was an early sweater in my knitting life, and I just kind of made it up as I went along. The yarn was gorgeous gipsy hand-dyed wool from Fingerlakes Yarn. I wanted a shawl collar, so I made a shawl collar. I wanted a cardigan, so I [...]
April 22, 2009
In honor of Earth Day, I want to celebrate my new discovery – a store called Muji. I encountered it when we visited London, but it apparently is all over the globe (including a few stores in the New York City area). The store stocks practical no-nonsense items with minimal packaging. I walked out with [...]
April 19, 2009
Ever wanted to know how to renovate your home the green way? For the DIY earth friendly homeowner, the folks at Greenovation.TV want to show you how. It’s a website and a media channel, launching Earth Day April 22. They’re available online 24/7. What’s even cooler is they’re local here in Ann Arbor, in my [...]
February 28, 2009
As I sit here drinking my lovely cup of organic Shui Xian Oolong tea I can feel like I’m also doing a little thing for the environment. At least, if compared to the impact I’d make for the same amount of coffee. I saw an amazing chart in the February 28-March 6 edition of the [...]
February 25, 2009
So, this fall I experimented with canning and freezing some of the local yummies. I canned tomato sauce and drunken fig jam, and I froze peaches (as well as excess hot peppers from the farm share). I wanted to save these items past the fall, to meter them out so I had summer yummies through [...]
February 18, 2009
So, our farm share has helped me incorporate a few new vegetables into my cooking. Previous to the farmshare, I was in a vegetable rut. I admit it, I was serial buyer of broccoli, spinach, and salad. My farmshare has expanded my horizons a little bit. I do not know how I lived a full [...]
not particularly objective musings on odds and ends – Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48105