Home made laundry soap is even easier with a food processor. This, a great idea from Josh ( Read more... )

I ran across this the other day.  It is a long but good read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?em  (This one does not seem to require sign in.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink (Same article, but this link is theoretically permanent--seems to require login though

Yesterday was a big full day. ( Went to the farmers market and on an amazing bike ride. )

I just rendered 2 lbs of tofu for later use. Pressed it, cubed it, and froze it. According to "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian" it is good that way. Apparently, since the water expands when it freezes, it forces itself out of the tofu and you get, like, super-pressed tofu. We shall see. Also, it seems actually pretty good plain and raw. I ( Read more... )

Has anyone seen any flying pigs lately?

( I know they are around here someplace... )

The are precious few signs of worms or compost in my compost... but if I don't miss my guess, the 4 little green things poking their heads up out of it are volunteer butternut squash plants.

Score!

Mamadorf gave us a nice little compost pail for Christmas. She said the guy who sold it to her said we could just compost right in it, no need form worms or anything. Okay, so we tried that. It's got a little filter so that it wont stink up the kitchen, and we put in some "brown" materials and microbe starter stuff. But it was getting full, ( Read more... )

I've been reading in "Earth in the Balance" about genetic diversity and agriculture. This book is 15 years old, but it is raising some important issues I've never even heard about before. For that reason, I am sorely tempted to transcribe, scan, or photograph the section to share with you guys. Because it sounds like important stuff, and because ( Read more... )

I often wonder how different America, and the world, would be right now if Al Gore had been elected won the election in 2000. I finally got around to watching "An Inconvenient Truth" in December, and currently I am reading "Earth in the Balance," not that I wasn't plenty worried about the issue before. I think of the section about Easter Island ( Read more... )

( Thoughts on number of children )