Today is Earth Day, happy Earth friends! What are you doing/have you done to celebrate? If nothing, is that by choice or circumstance? If choice, why do you choose not to note this occasion ( Read more... )

Our company closed the office at 2 today so we could all get home safely. leorathesane also left work early, as she is still recovering from the Camp Cold of Calamity and Destruction. So we're both home, yay! And, granted, my half-hour commute took an hour, and then I spent half an hour shoveling, so I didn't ultimately gain that much time. But it still feels ( Read more... )

Really, really excellent news for anyone who'd been following this story, or who's been to Coldwater, or who just gives a crap what happens to natural and historical landmarks in Minnesota: "National Park Service to restore land near Fort Snelling". Thanks to leorathesane for the heads-up!

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If that song is now stuck in your head, you may thank me later.

1. Last night I dreamed that HarperCollins published a novel I'd written. I didn't get a look at the title, but the story was Pillars of the Earth meets The Karate Kid. (No, come on, now; let's pause and really think about that.) They'd published it without ever letting me look at a ( Read more... )

Looking for some creative and unusual holiday gifts that won't break your wallet or the planet? Come one, come all, to the annual Green Gifts Fair on Saturday, November 15 (one week from tomorrow) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Midtown Global Market, Lake Street & 10th Avenue in Minneapolis.

• Shop 65+ local retailers and artists for green, ( Read more... )

Okie-dokie folkies. Here's the deal. I'm writing an article for Do It Green! Minnesota. What the editor has presented to me is a side-by-side-by-side comparison on the monetary and environmental costs of 3 heads of lettuce: 1 conventionally grown in CA and shipped to MN for sale in the local megamart; 1 organically grown and available locally, ( Read more... )

This week I've been listening to a series of stories on NPR about the global food crisis. It's an incredibly complex issue, with myriad interconnected factors; I'm not saying there's one thing that, on its own, could fix everything ( Read more... )

Yesterday I played (company-authorized) hooky from work and attended E3 2007, presented by the University of Minnesota's Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment (IREE).

( It was interesting, if a bit over my head. )

Just got back from a short walk. I haven't been out that way in about a week. About a dozen ant hills have popped up in the sidewalk cracks, and the girls are hard at work. Spring is here, and I am one very happy camper.

Expos are fun, because you get free stuff. The Living Green Expo is even more fun, because, theoretically, the free stuff is environmentally friendly. I was not immune to the irony of the Annie's Homegrown people handing out single-serving packages of cheddar bunnies, nor to the far greater irony of Metro Transit, personal whipping post of Peter " ( Read more... )