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From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Finally, fully potty independent

April 30, 2008

1:30 a.m. Rio gets out of bed, goes to the bathroom, and puts herself back to bed. She needed no adult interaction; if I’d been sleeping I would not have even known. I happened to notice because I was up stupid late doing some paperwork. My first thought was one of intense pride: my little [...]

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Eating well without eating animals

April 25, 2008

This was going to be a response to ‘s thoughtful post about feeding her family less meat, but enough people have asked me about this sort of thing that I thought I’d post it to my own journal.

Tagged as: food, garden, green, vegetarianism

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Also on the food front: Pizza Sleaze

April 25, 2008

Industrial chemicals posing as food! World of Ick! from : Here’s the article exposing the Pizza Hut cheesy business. Turns out the PDMS is there in small amounts (0.1%), not to replace the “cheese” (actually the “cheese” is mostly starch and water…), but to  prevent bubbles from forming on the cheese when the pizza cooks. [...]

Tagged as: food, garden, green

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Garden Gnome!

April 25, 2008

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Garden Gnome!, originally uploaded by MzMuze. As a follow-up to my earlier post about food and sustainability, this week became all about a garden.

Tagged as: flickr, food, garden, green, money, serena, social justice

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Greening our lives, observing a Sabbath

April 21, 2008

I just read Michael Pollan’s amazing article in Sunday’s NYT. * It’s a long article, mostly devoted to challenging what he calls the “cheap-energy mind”, and what Starhawk has called the politics of disconnection. Briefly, they are both talking about the tendency in our culture to seek answers outside of ourselves to the problems we [...]

Tagged as: food, green, power, witchcraft

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Rio learns math

April 19, 2008

(this is worth reading because the punchline is so hilarious, in a dadist way) A few days ago, Rio and I were driving and she started making lists of her friends ages. She came up with three friends who are four and four friends who are three. For giggles, I asked her how many total [...]

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one more green thing

April 19, 2008

Can anyone recommend a farm share we could still sign on for this year?

Tagged as: green, life stuff, parenting

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family footprint

April 19, 2008

As a follow-up, I took the footprint quiz that posted about. I was irked that they did not even ask about diapers, and ashamed that we would need 5 Earths to support a whole world of people who live like I do. It’s all about the fuel consumption for travel – we drive everywhere, all [...]

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wash or toss, part II

April 19, 2008

I posted this poll a few months back, about what people re-use and what they throw away. I didn’t have a big green agenda about it, I was just curious, but the results made me realize I’m not as green as I think. I was already planning this follow-up post for today, after an awesome [...]

Tagged as: baby project, ec, green, house project, life stuff, parenting

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Parenting victories

April 19, 2008

…for the win: Me, serving up a blueberry pancake Rio has just made herself from her own cookbook: Do you want syrup on this? Rio: No, I’ve had enough sugar. I had syrup on the last one.

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