From: Tuesday, July 31, 2007:
“Sometimes blogging itself is what pounds you down to the pavement. You see, we have this seemingly intimate community here. We speak our minds and sometimes we whisper our secrets. The community aspect of blogging is seductive. It can start to feel like a place where you are free to talk openly, but, in reality, if you lose yourself even for a moment, let slip a personal vent you thought would be contained in this small, homey community, you can be made to regret your actions beyond words.”
The “record of one mom’s culinary adventures getting healthy and interesting dinners on the table,” not to mention some family conversation, teaching her kids kitchen skills and just having some fun.
From: Sunday, July 29, 2007:
“I read that in Peru, when a person is very ill, she ties a piece of clothing to a captive guinea pig -- whether pet or livestock I wasn't sure -- and then sets it free. They say that the guinea pig will rejoin its wild cousins, carrying the clothing to an underground burrow and taking the illness away, too. I'm considering it.”
Why we started this blog:
“MaGreen and I are going through something many expecting parents do. All of sudden, what were rather vague concerns about toxins, diet, and lifestyle now seem urgent. We want to be green parents. And we want to be socially responsible so our child inherits a better world.”
Rather than drive, this mom walks her child to school, combines errands, keeps looking for the safest products to use, tries to make her own cleaning products – “Vinegar is a good friend!” “Am I perfect at this stuff? Not a chance! But I do try to keep up with what I’ve learned as well as learn more constantly.”
From: August 2, 2007:
“I see how I can deceive myself into spinning round the gerbil wheel and working my butt off to get more stuff, only to find that the stuff doesn’t make me happier.” No Impact Man is a one year long experiment involving one man, a wife, a child, and a dog. The challenge: living in the heart of New York City without causing any “net environmental impact.”
EcoGeek devotes itself to “the symbiosis between technology and the environment.” Can that symbiosis become a more cooperative relationship, one in which technology works harmoniously with nature, as well as augmenting it?
Dr. Susan Rubin is a holistic nutritionist, retired dentist, better school food advocate and mother of three. “What can we do to protect our kids from food advertisers who want our kids to beg for more junk? Don't hold your breath waiting for any helpful legislation to happen anytime soon.” Her blog focuses on the fast food industry, aided and abetted, in quiet complicity, by our government. “What can we do to protect our kids from food advertisers who want our kids to beg for more junk?”
Alexander Trevi says that he is a landscape architect, but landscape architecture cannot begin to do his blog justice: horticulture, aesthetics, technology, culture, sociology, ect., all intermingled and looked at from interesting and odd angles.
