Today is Blog Action Day, and the topic of the year is Water.

I've participated in BAD before (2007 and 2008), and that 2007 post on running a dye shop in a drought still gets fairly frequent hits, three years later. (In 2008, i posted about poverty and theatre, which was a cool thing to write about but not something as many people google for ( Read more... )

We're in the midst of a drought (yet again) in the Carolina Piedmont, and yesterday one of my students, Samantha Greaves, noticed that a couple of her personal hatblocks were cracking and splitting from the lack of moisture in the air. Another student, Nora Rogers, is a woodworker (among other things) and recommended that she oil the cracking ( Read more... )

The American South has been gripped in drought for months and months now. On Blog Action Day back in October, I made an extensive post about reusing rinse and dye baths and collecting grey waterAt the time, the restrictions for reuse of water, particularly grey water, were, well, kinda grey ( Read more... )

Today is Blog Action Day, on which participants are encouraged to blog about a particular issue--today that issue is the environment ( Read more... )