I’m currently reading the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle from Barbara Kingsolver. It’s an immediately-inspiring story of a family vowing to live and eat off their local environment for a year. Kingsolver tells her story like the great author she is, but she throws in useful sections about how to grow a certain vegetable or what...
Phase 1: Adopt lab
Phase 2: Get lab to enter water, gradually over head in pursuit of stick or ball
Phase 3: Get lab to stop splashing and begin the correct and efficient use of webbed paws while swimming
Phase 4: Lure lab onto boat with tennis ball
Happy to say Brewer’s first boat ride was a big success...
Thanks to the ladies in Boston who were able to join for a lovely “Detox Your Home” event on Newbury Street last night with Method home care! Okay, so it was a little more “Detox Your Liquor Cabinet”, but what did you expect from something I invited you to?
[disclaimer: it's not that I drink more...
Last year, Norway declared it would be “carbon neutral” by 2050 – generating no net greenhouse gasses into the air. In January, however, it upped the ante to 2030.
As reported in the International Herald Tribune today, this kind of commitment will likely require real sacrifice closer to home, such as driving less, flying less and...
Care to join me in finding out your ecological footprint?
Thanks to Emily and her sustainable design class at the BAC! Click on the link and answer a very short list of questions.
http://www.earthday.net/footprint
I’ll be honest, here’s what I found:
My total footprint is 21 acres. 4.9 for food, 1.5 for transportation, 6.9 for shelter, and 7.7 for...
