I do love me some chocolate. My husband is quite the chocolate connoisseur and you'll find a few books on the history of chocolate and c...

It appears that I have completely failed my own challenge. I'll have to say that this is a first. Usually, I'm a lot more adept at k...

I have to admit that I've been avoiding weeding the backyard like the plague. I'm just not up to even looking out there and seeing w...

I was just minding my own damn business last night when reader, Kevin, was kind enough to forward a bunch of pictures of some artery-blastin...

A lot of people have been discussing using bartering as a method of exchanging goods and services in the new economy, one where jobs may b...

Oh dear. I have totally gone off the challenge wagon this week. I really feel like I lost control this week, mostly because I was being awf...

I'm sure you've all heard the argument - raising cattle for beef is a high green house gas emitting activity. It breaks down to abou...

The following is a guest post from reader, Karen O'Brien, who writes the blog, My Own Beeswax . I asked her to write a little something ...

The other day I was reading a comment over on The Oil Drum that I thought was an interesting idea. Basically, the reader was banking the mo...

I know we are all busy learning new skills either for a hobby or to prepare for an uncertain future, either one that is a result of low ener...

This here challenge is turning out to be a lot easier than I thought it would be in some regards, but already we are hitting the skids on t...

Yesterday was Autism Awareness Day and the following post is a bit of a departure from my usual writings. I wanted to share with you the st...

There are so many certification labels on food these days and the most confusing are the ones stemming from organic, organic alternatives, n...

Since I posted this last Saturday, I wanted to bump it up to make sure people got a chance to add their own recommendations and read the one...

I can't believe it's already the last day of the Freeze Yer Buns Challenge . I'm still using my cherry pit bed warmer on occasio...

The Sustainable Food Budget Challenge starts in a few days and I wanted to clarify a bit what I mean by eating sustainably for the month. F...

As sources of petroleum energy peak and fall (oil and natural gas) over the next few decades, we'll see much higher costs for many of th...

After Monday night's edible landscaping action at Sustainable Ballard, coupled with a conversation on gardens over at One Green Generat...

Last night I went to my first Sustainable Ballard meeting in an effort to get more involved at the local level. The topics for the evening ...

Well, my guests sure didn't know that we were doing a doomer dinner, they were just enticed to come over by the invite and the menu. Wha...