Tag Archives: sustainable

My Two Pennies: soleRebels vs TOMS

We all need shoes. Some, like myself, also just like shoes. I enjoy buying shoes. Unfortunately I can’t really afford to do it often, but occasionally I have the opportunity to replace a pair or two. Typically my casual shoes because I wear them most often and they take a beating. So, this year when [...]

Chik’n Qorn Chowder

As you may know from reading my blog I generally try to stay physically fit. I enjoy running and weight lifting and eating a healthy plant-based diet. I get plenty of nutrients from my food because my workouts are pretty moderate. My husband on the other hand has been doing P90x. With a workout this [...]

Freight Farms: Grow Fresh Food in Any Environment

My November project on Kickstarter has been funded; hooray!  Now, time to look forward to December. For next month I’ve selected another food/urban farming related project, but this time it is a bit more techy. This project is aimed at creating a portable environment that will allow people to farm in challenging environments. The creators [...]

The Hamilton Crop Circle

I love Kickstarter so much that I want to share my exuberance with you each time I support a new project. I’ll try to regularly pledge my support to a project that I find personally meaningful. This time I’ve chosen to support the Hamilton Crop Circle.   This project is near and dear to my [...]

Kickstarter

Kickstarter first entered my vocabulary about two years ago when an acquaintance at a birthday party was telling me about her latest project and how she intended to fund it. Kickstarter is a website where entrepreneurs and artists list details about a project plan and investors have the opportunity to fund it. Everyone can pledge [...]

PunchFork: Recipes made beautiful and easy

I love the internet for many reasons, but one of my very favorites is the access to an impossible number of recipes, often with user reviews and pictures so that I know that even I can do it. This has meant countless apps, blogs, feeds and searching to get just the recipes that I want. [...]

An Arresting Video on YouTube: How to Save the Blue Fin Tuna

A friend recently tweeted a link to this video about the decline of the Blue Fin Tuna and their possible extinction as soon as 2012: It is an animated film that covers the decline in Blue Fin tuna stock as a result of commercial fishing, wasteful tuna farms and increasing consumption combined with the dangers [...]

Shop Local: Patterson Park Flea Market & Craft Fair in Baltimore, MD on May 14, 2011

If you live in the Baltimore-Washington area and have ever been interested in viewing my items in person, there is an excellent opportunity this weekend. I’ll be peddling my wares at the Patterson Park Flea Market & Craft Fair. I’ll bring all of the vintage and refashioned goodies from my Etsy shop and sell them [...]

Stuff I Love: Paper Made from Poo!

Yes, you did read that correctly. I am referencing paper recyled from excrement. Ewwww…. Well, The Great Elephant Poo Poo Paper Company has a cute little slogan that reads, “We take the OO out of Poo”. This paper has been crafted from the undigested plant fibers left behind by elephants. It’s allowed to dry, cleaned and [...]

SerendipiT Donating 100% of Sale Proceeds to Japanese Aid Organizations

The catastrophic events that have taken place in Japan over the last week are almost unimaginable, the suffering of the survivors nearly inconceivable. Fortunately there are several charitable organizations already providing aid. For this reason I am temporarily converting my Etsy shop over to serve as a means to collect donations to support the efforts [...]

 
RT @TreeHugger: Less men are willing to go #vegetarian and a new study says it's because they think it's less macho. http://t.co/bRcPxh5J6 hours ago