Millions are unsuccessfully looking for jobs, our climate is warming faster than the scientists’ worst-case scenarios and now we also have a swine flu epidemic. Ai-yai-yai. All of those are important, but today I’m drilling down deeper into a universal constant in all our lives: the food that keeps us alive.
Living in the city as [...]
Entries Tagged as 'food'
The Sexiness Of Spring
April 28th, 2009 · No Comments · 97215, food, gardening, life, outdoors, simplicity, sustainability
Tags: earth·field·food·hereford cat·plow
Diamonds To Dust: Needing Better Diamonds
September 19th, 2008 · No Comments · 97215, bipartisan politics, cars, culture, development, economics, happiness, life, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability, transportation, work
We’ve got lots of blame, anger and flat-out fear flying around in reaction to the collapse of giants like Merrill Lynch — and also the government/taxpayers bailing them out. I’m feeling calm this morning, myself, which makes it a good time to write. What does it mean that all these profitable companies, these diamonds, are [...]
Tags: bailout·credit·family·food·Merrill Lynch·quality of life·transit·walk
How To Change Things For The Greener, Anywhere
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · 97215, community, culture, development, economics, environment, sustainability, transportation
The following is a guest post by Jim Meyer. Diamond-Cut Life welcomes your topical submissions. If you would like to write a guest post, please contact us.
Let’s get frank about the current pressures on the US lifestyle and environment as it’s been constructed up to now: A lot of people are getting [...]
Tags: best picture·bicycle·car-free·cars·climate change·convenience·early adopters·food·grassroots·green lifestyle·green living·happiness·health·Infrastructure·lifestyle·neighborhood·parks·public transit·social change·sprawl·sustainability
Rejecting Agrofuel: What To Do
May 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · 97215, carbon footprint, carpooling, environment, global warming, green living, hybrids, sustainability
The diamond-cut life is about more joy, more integrity and less consumption as we deal with global warming. The food-as-fuel track that the U.S. is on (ethanol) assumes unlimited consumption (driving alone, for instance) with no particular joy or integrity.
What are practical, concrete things we can do? Here is what my household is doing to [...]
Tags: agrifuel·agrofuel·bicycle·biofuel·consumption·diet·Drive Less Save More·food·fuel·Honda hybrid·Prius·trip diary·vanpool·walk
Update On Cooking For Climate Change
March 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments · carbon footprint, climate change, culture, environment, food, life, simplicity, sustainability, transportation
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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