I would finally like to get a fountain pen with a refillable ink cartridge.

Does anyone have any recommendations, as far as brand?

Does anyone have any recommendations for buying vintage pens?

I swear I got advice about this a year or so ago, but I can't find that post or those responses...

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Instead of doing an Earth Hour, with no lights, I decided it might be an interesting experience to try an Earth Shabbat: 24 hours with no unnecessary power ( Read more... )

I'm beyond annoyed with the Save the Planet rhetoric. Y'all realize that the planet will be just fine, right? It's our ridiculous way of modern living that is in jeopardy. It's humanity that's in jeopardy. Not the planet. Get rid of humanity in one fell swoop and the planet will recover and stabilize a hell of a lot faster. 5 minutes here, an hour ( Read more... )

nocturnalia posted an excellent article on the hideousness of industrial egg production ( Read more... )

Time to clean up the tabs!

Life, Art and Chickens, Afloat on a Barge in New York Harbor Waterpod, Ahoy!

Amazing Lightning Show Over Toronto gorgeous photos from a massive thunderstorm from about a week ago.

EarthSky's meteor shower guide for 2009 Just missed the Perseids

Wild Food Recipes from "Wild Man Steve Brill" And now I know what to do ( Read more... )

I would like to mass edit every recipe in existence. Specifically, I want to change the phrase "cut off $part_of_food and discard" to "cut off $part_of_food and compost".

Because, seriously, that's a hell of a lot of food wasted needlessly ( Read more... )

I haven't checked out Crunchy Chicken's Blog in a while, but I did today and discovered that she has another blog that focuses on eco-friendly beauty products and practices.

Green Goddess DressingApparently, honey makes for a great facial cleanser and coconut oil is a FABulous eye-makeup remover. Huh. I'll have to try the honey sometime ( Read more... )

http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/07/the_man_with_the_onion_lawn/

I love what this man has done, and I hope he inspires more people to follow suit. I know I plan to plant far more intensively next year with my tiny garden plot.

Clean Train Coalition: "Metrolinx is planning to run more than 350 diesel trains every day on the Union Station to Georgetown rail corridor without fully considering the people who will be affected the most. These diesel trains will be spewing fumes and dividing our neighbourhoods ( Read more... )

I hadn't heard of this before, but I like the sound of it ( Read more... )