The Downside of Cheap Fast Food

The Downside of Cheap F...

The Downside of Cheap For all the grumbling you do about your weekly grocery bill, the fact is you’ve never had it so good, at least in terms of what you pay for every calorie you eat. According to the USDA, Americans spend less than 10% of their incomes on food, down from...
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The Ethics of Eating Animals

The Ethics of Eating An...

Throwing down my burrito this morning, I had finally had it. The industrial oil was clearly tastable, and the chicken tasted like someone had assorted mushed paper mache with chicken flavoring in a kiln. Awful. I nearly threw it up. I picked up a paper that discussed animal consumption...
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Recycle Your Pantry

Recycle Your Pantry...

Keep thinking you need to go shopping when you really need to get looking for recipes? Do you throw out perfectly good remainder foods because “you just don’t use it”. The trick is to start husbanding food wisely. Close the lid tightly when returning containers...
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Turn off the AC

Turn off the AC...

In writing about the electronics practices of businesses to winterize green, an observed stumbling block emerged. When businesses and home thermostats should be set to 68 degrees, a lot of public buildings are set to cool air to a much lower temperature. Now, how can that be green?...
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Recycled Soup

Recycled Soup...

This time last year I was in a winter cottage with yards of fresh packed snow ice frozen on the ground. Even as chain lined tires and four wheel driven vehicles stumbled out of the rack every third or fourth day, the dill in the garden came out great. The fried green tomatoes came...
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Grow Your Holiday Cheer

Grow Your Holiday Cheer...

This wheelbarrow sacrifices rain catchment Is your budget thin this year for Christmas gift giving and holiday cheer? Gift exchanges are a cemented part and parcel of the consumative volcano that is the Western holiday season. And it’s too bad, because the mountains of wrapped...
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Recycling Craft Vogue

Recycling Craft Vogue...

The craft fair I attended today was rife with recycling gift ideas, some of them on the supply side. Used pairs of jeans transformed into handbags, and jewelry from deconstructed clothing. Lots of things that could have been made from re-used other materials. The vogue for re-used...
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Recycled Halloween Costumes

Recycled Halloween Cost...

Reduce & Re-Use. The best Halloween costume is a recycled one. Making a Halloween costume out of any recycled material is better than generating consumption of one more acetate creation meant to be thrown away. The statistics on the waste Halloween alone creates are frightening. 1....
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Solar Decathlon Winners

Solar Decathlon Winners...

Team California won the Solar Decathlon in Washington D. C., for Architecture and Communications, and the University of Lousiana at Lafayette for won for Market Viability. More categorical wins will be announced. The Solar Decathlon houses will be open in the National Mall for public...
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Recycling Is Peanuts

Recycling Is Peanuts...

  green solutions           If there is one Great Blog to link to, it’s Jeff Yeager’s Cheapskate Blog. Spending less money is sustainable. Find ways to save money, reduce consumption, educate others, and learn new ways to recycle and re-use stuff you’d otherwise...
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