Red State Green

Today my son and I picked pears. He climbed the tree, while I picked the low-hanging ones as well as a few of the bad ones that fell to add to the compost bin. It was fun — we got to be outside and spend time together.
Here’s the links for this week:
Some photos […]

Well, I was reading a post (I forget on what group now) and this guy said, “I want to make my yard like Willy Wonka’s”.

And I thought, “what a cool idea!”

As Willy himself said:

“Everything is edible … eatable…”
Of course, we won’t have chocolate waterfalls, but I kind of like the idea of a completely edible […]

I was perusing P~’s blog (who I assumed was a woman until I read his name is Patrik (sorry!)) and found this post, which got me thinking of how I got to working on all this. This might be a fun meme to post here or on your blogs.
I also grew up in southern CA […]

I ran across this article today, about focusing on the positive in working to help our environment rather than on what you might ‘have to give up’ or hunkering down to ‘get through the hard times’ that might be coming.
So what can we do to make things better out there? It all depends on what […]

I was surfing the web and found this article: Question your lifestyle . I don’t agree with the end of this article, and the numbers are out of date, but I thought it worth reading.
The interesting thing about this was the author’s list of things we’re taught not to question, such as:

Bigger is better
Newest is […]

I thought you might like to listen to this podcast from Financial Sense Newshour (go to the second hour) featuring Richard Heinberg, a journalist who has written extensively on peak oil. The discussion is on the financial implications of his recent book, “Peak Everything”.Take a listen, and we can discuss it here. (about an hour […]

Some news stories and some articles you might like to see:
Run on British bank
Thousands of nervous customers queued for hours outside branches of British bank Northern Rock [last] Saturday desperate to withdraw savings after it was forced to seek emergency funds to weather the global credit crunch.
Queues snaked round the block at branches of Britain’s […]

Consumer Consequences
Not only is this fun (you get to customize your avatar and neighborhood) but if you don’t totally get out of the game you can go back and see what changes in your choices give you a better score. A truly interactive game!

Everyone has their own perceptions of what is too extreme, too ‘out there’ for them to think of doing. For some, it would be impossible for them to even consider doing something like planting a food garden or trying grass-fed beef. For others, turning the a/c up in summer or using cloth napkins instead of […]

Keeping the Sabbath
As religious leaders and their congregations go green, they’ve neglected one Judeo-Christian teaching that could cut energy consumption and pollution by 14.2857 percent.
That’s one-seventh, just as the Sabbath halts work one day out of the weekly seven.
The day of rest – long considered a gift from God – is meant to create a […]