This is almost a Spark post, however I’ve got two from over at Groovy Green.
Why Higher Gas Prices Should Make You Smile, at least if you believe that the only way we’re going to get out of this crisis is by switching to “alternative” (to fossil fuels) forms of energy. I have often said that […]

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Containing, as it does, both Earth & Arbor days, April is the month when we look to the soil and the earth for inspiration. Earlier this month, I created a new Urb Garden, which is so far doing quite well. My cucumbers are happily strangling my tomatoes and the strawberries & mint are locked in […]

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A fantastic set of artistic works that capture, in a snapshot (I use the term loosely, more often in a 60′x40′ canvas) the kinds of things that get through out daily, weekly, every five minutes, &c. Many of these I would love to buy prints of (I especially like Paper Bags and Jet Trails).
Spark is […]

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We’ve covered ultra short SF stories. Now, to memoirs. The specific topic is green memoirs but I think any memoir will do.
Mine:
Courtyard: a communal herb garden. Gone.

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or, How Walkable is Your Neighborhood?
I’ve been walking to the local grocery store recently. Mostly because I think it’s a waste to get into my car after having driven home simply because I don’t have any ideas about what dinner should be. And because my favorite grocery store, TJ’s is not too far, just involves […]

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NPR reported today that insurers are trying to take climate change into account as they make risk calculations.
This is close to my heart because I really think that an economic accounting of natural resources and forces are necessary to facilitate an understanding to those who seem to to be able to understand the gravity of […]

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It’s that time of year again: the time of year that I studiously avoid my sewing desk like the plaque (xJane discovers “strike through”) plague. Last year I managed to avoid it so (sew?) studiously that my mother’s xmas gift was completed in the car on the way from LA to SEA. That was unfortunate.
I’ve […]

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I feel privileged to live in the same world as this girl. Haley Gee is a 9 year old who, upon hearing of the oil spill in NorCal, took up a collection at her school. She managed to raise only about a hundred dollars, but presented it proudly to the International Bird Rescue Research Center. […]

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Yesterday was Buy Nothing Day, an anti-holiday to point out the consumerism that we (westerners) indulge in on a daily basis. My ability to observe buy nothing day is often predicated on who I’m hanging out with at the time. At one half of my in-laws, there’s usually enough left overs and we’re far enough […]

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I am an atheist. But I’m also a bit of a polytheist. If there is anything divine, I cannot believe that it is off somewhere, listening to my thoughts & judging my inactions, but that it is in the beauty around us; in my family & friends, in the wonders of a plane take-off, in […]

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