tamago23 has inspired me with her recent steampunk costumery and character creation. optimystik and I were discussing what sorts of steampunk characters we would be. I figured I'd definitely do the adventuress gig and wear practical but elegant clothing -- either that or be a carpet bag lady who wears too much velvet and is just a little off in the noggin. N would ( Read more... )

Urban homesteading is my dream/goal at the moment. I want a house with a gorgeous backyard where I can compost and grow and grow and grow and have an area for cold storage (think root cellar), and goats for manure. Goats! Pygmy goats! little ones who are so fucking cute you just wanna die looking at them! I want their poo to make my garden better ( ( Read more... )

I will hopefully be posting some of No Impact Man's more interesting (to me) entries as I find them. Here is one that discusses gender politics and housework:

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of local interest, but posted to all (because some local folk are travelling and some non-local folk are visiting)

Strawberries & Asparagus Festival

Highlights: an Inorganic Market hosted by iRecycle"Bring your unwanted electronics to the Inorganic Market™. They accept laptops, desktops, monitors, printers, scanners, fax machines, ipods, mp3 ( Read more... )

How We're Wrecking Our Feet

trying to figure out whether you can grow heirloom tomatoes well in window boxes. anyone know, fer sher?

totally loving not eating meat, eggs, and dairy: my mouth and body feel clean(but I bought 6 farm eggs at Saturday's market: for cookies ( Read more... )

Well, this is depressing. With all the changes I've made and all the crap I spout about greening your life and whatnot, I get a less than stellar score on the Eco-Footprint QuizAccording to this, if everyone lived the way I do, we would need 2.6 earths ( Read more... )

I'm a postin' fool! Woohoo!

Ok, here's the thing: I have discovered that the corks from wine bottles (and some other types of liquor bottles, I guess) do NOT need to be tossed in the garbage. There Is Another Way!

There is a cork recycling program in Ontario called Bag-a-Cork"Cork is an amazing natural material that is 100% reusable and ( Read more... )

My amazon wishlist has been updated.

So has my parenting-related amazon wishlist.

I added more photos to our gallery. Aidan smiles lots now ( Read more... )

While both have to do with enjoying what you have, frugality and hedonism are opposite responses to the material world. Hedonism revels in the pleasures of the senses and implies excessive consumption of the material world and a continual search for more. Frugal people, however, get value from everything-a dandelion or a bouquet of roses, a single ( Read more... )

Totally wicked cool:
Aqus Toilet System: affordable grey water system for your bathroom

Totally weird:
The Washlet(warning: is resource heavy and requires sound; also shows bums, so is likely NSFW ( Read more... )