Entries from November 2009

November 27, 2009

Buy Nothing Day

Heads up folks.  Time to fasten your wallets and cook from the pantry, the annual Buy Nothing Day is here!
Hey, if you manage to do it for a day, why not a week.  Why not a month?

November 24, 2009

You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring

Personal fact: in my professional life, I work in the field of industrial ecology.  Personal disclosure: before I got this job I had never heard of Paul Hawken.
But Paul Hawken is a guy who gets it.  He understands what waste, and consumerism, and the environment, and the greater meanings of being ’socially responsible’ and ‘economically [...]

November 17, 2009

Way Back When Halloween Happened

Whoa, has it really been three weeks since my last post? !  Did I really not post about Halloween, my favorite of all dress up events?!
Humour me while a backtrack a few weeks for an eco-oriented review of our haunting activities.
Rhyannon wore an old costume of Grant’s and went as a Micheal Jackson Cassette Tape, [...]