I've been looking for a purse that ( Read more... )

Ours is very (we scored an 82 out of 100, living 2 blocks from Moody):
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/waltham/2009/04/how_walkable_is_waltham.html

Here's a neat post about "stuff" bringing us joy and our brain:
http://veryevolved.com/2009/01/how-to-get-what-you-want-understanding-the-biology-of-object-lust/

I had posted an update about a month or so after insulating our house, but here's another ( Read more... )

Its been a month since our house was insulated (mind you, its been mild for November temperature-wise), but here's our gas usage for the last three years for this period ( Read more... )

I had signed us up for http://www.nstaronline.com/residential/customer_information/nstar_green/nstar_green.asp back when it was first available. Yesterday I received a little thank you note from the company with a small green flag ( Read more... )

This article does push me more to want to insulate before the winter.

I called Keyspan/National Grid to schedule a free energy assessment. There is a huge backlog for appointments and the woman on the phone said that she's guessing they wouldn't call me to set something up until November - yikes ( Read more... )

I found this blog via the terrapass e-mail that was in my inbox this morning and wanted to share http://fivepercent.us/ . The guy lives in Newton, so some of the posts are relevant to being green in the Boston area ( Read more... )

I've been reading the Cage Free Family Blog and I look forward to the sporadic updates as they continue with their adventure. I'm not looking to do anything as far as going off grid, but its been inspiring to read of one family's efforts to do so (as well as blogs of other readers commenting with their own blog urls). As I try and scale down the ( Read more... )