My friend Danielle, creator of the excellent blog Less is More Balanced, is hanging up her blogging hat to focus on other writing projects, but the blog link will remain active indefinitely. I’m leaving it up on my sidebar because it’s one of my favorite resources for organic and green issues, projects, and inspiration. So […]
Will the junk mail ever stop?
It’s time to check in with my very first baby steps challenge: stop those catalogs and junk mail once and for all. This photo represents all the junk mail we received during the past month, a year after I originally took on the challenge. It’s significantly less than we used to get, but I still […]
The Recycling Queen
Meet Ann Lesch. She recycles just about anything she gets her hands on. And what she creates out of what most of us would consider junk is fabulous. Ann collects used plastic bags friends bring home from stores. She washes them, sorts them by color, and cuts them into strips. Then she crochets them into […]
Annie Leonard: hero or communist sympathizer?
Annie Leonard’s video “The Story of Stuff,” was the single strongest influence on me during my first year on The Compact (I’m almost halfway through my second already). So I was happy to see her on The Colbert Report and learn that she’d written a book of the same name. The idea that we should […]
Stop Those Catalogs and Junk Mail Once and For All
The following is a reprint of a previously published post, from one year ago. I thought I’d check in on my “baby step challenges” from last year and see how they’re going. This post was my mid-month report on attacking junk mail, and our junk mail has decreased dramatically in the past year. This month […]
Continuous Small Treats
The following is a reprint of a previously published post. We just received our Easter ginger cake and I’m looking forward to savoring it with my morning tea. Our dear sweet neighbor gave us this Easter basket. He baked the ginger cake himself. I can’t wait to enjoy it with tea tomorrow afternoon. It will […]