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Sustainable Living: More Joy And Less Consumption In The Face Of Global Warming

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Update On Cooking For Climate Change

March 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments

My post cooking for climate change needs freshening here as sustainability’s body of knowledge keeps growing. As per Michael Specter’s well-researched piece in The New Yorker, it turns out that being a locavore — eating just things grown close to home — does not necessarily reduce our carbon footprint.

Come again? How could two Oregonians (my husband Thor and I) possibly drink wine from Australia and create

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Tags: carbon footprint · climate change · culture · environment · food · life · simplicity · sustainability · transportation

Two Birds, One Beautiful Stone

November 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Maybe you’re like me in this respect: when I see problems, I want to find solutions.

No.

I don’t just want to find solutions, I want to live them out. I feel more alive that way, more connected. Lots of problems are both personal and public, both micro and macro. Ditto their solutions.

Here we have a national epidemic of obesity and a global climate problem of overusing fossil fuels. It doesn’t take

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Tags: culture · environment · global warming · life