... but huge parts of the Paraguayan wilderness land known as the Chaco are being threatened with deforestation and desertification thanks to a Christian sect that settled down there. Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/05/chaco-paraguay-

Thank you to all who responded to my previous message (ranting about the fragility of modern cotton knits). I still would like to know what's happening physically to the cloth, but I've also begun to muse about the bigger picture of used clothing in a society with an excess of everything ( Read more... )

I seem to have used about the same number of kilowatt-hours in July 2005 as in July 2004. (My electric bill tracks usage for the previous year.)

I was hoping that I was using a bit less electricity now, because my programmable thermostat raises the A/C temperature to 82 degrees while I'm at work, and then drops it back down to 78 degrees by the ( Read more... )