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December 18, 2009 11:01 PM EST --
If you are a citizen without your own well and waste-disposal system, you would do well to bone up on bio-chemistry. Many U.S. water supplies contain chemicals that can have serious repercussions . . .
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December 10, 2009 08:24 PM EST --
No excrement! Search and you shall find! Check it out and let me know what you think!
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December 06, 2009 01:11 AM EST --
This is a great shop around the corner in the garage of the same building as Roadside Attraction. It gives you a great deal, whether you buy or sell, and the food is good at the pub as well. Evening . . .
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December 06, 2009 01:01 AM EST --
Ok, so seriously I guess it would be tough to outlaw marriage. How about asking people for partnership agreements before letting them take babies home from hospitals? (I had mine out of hospital, . . .
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December 05, 2009 04:37 PM EST --
If a surgeon had the success rate that marriage in the USA has, would you want him to operate on you?
I hear people, even 70-somethings, talking about "my partner" these days. People appear to . . .
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November 20, 2009 06:49 PM EST --
The oddest of odd couples, Alan Grayson and Ron Paul, are trying to find out where the money went/is still going. I don't want to give more infamy to the characters trying to stop Grayson/Paul from . . .
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October 14, 2009 03:01 PM EDT --
If you could design a perfect place dedicated to caring for the wellbeing of your family, friends, and neighbors, what would it look like? Could it be in a church basement or community center or . . .
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October 02, 2009 04:11 PM EDT --
Care could be the first word in discussing health.
Cooperative could be the next word.
What we have now--private, public, hybrid, whatever, does not start with these concepts.
What we have now starts . . .
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August 19, 2009 03:05 PM EDT --
A friend just told me that Kaiser started as a coop. That isn't how I recall it. I thought it was started to retain workers by Kaiser Steel.
Nonetheless, what does occur to me is that Kaiser . . .
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August 14, 2009 12:59 AM EDT --
I trust Working Class Acupuncture, where I go when I pull a muscle in the garden or (from exercise. It's $15 for me as a senior under-employed person for careful listening and attention, before . . .
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August 04, 2009 04:31 PM EDT --
D.C. works like this: politicians find an un-problem and pour lots of money in it. It doesn't work because it wasn't designed to work.
So, the next year they pour more money, and it goes . . .
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July 12, 2009 10:07 PM EDT --
A group of people got together for a candidate who had tremendous internet support, but who is not the current POTUS.
The people in this group are individualistic.
Nonetheless, I am here to report . . .
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July 08, 2009 04:53 PM EDT --
When you've eaten all the lettuce, sometimes you can re-grow more leaves from the bottom.
Also, when you plant seeds that come up too close together, if you pull some out in a clump carefully, and divide . . .
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July 04, 2009 02:02 PM EDT --
I have learned that it may be possible to get both PV and thermal from the same roof space with a high-efficiency panel that has a companion thermal unit underneath it. PV production is actually . . .
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June 21, 2009 03:10 AM EDT --
Permaculture, ecovillages, tensegrity, oh my. A week full of food, open-pollinated free seeds, dance, slide shows, everything healthful and tending toward happier footprints in living our daily . . .
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March 01, 2009 01:59 AM EST --
Oops--I'm in a bit of an impish mood. So which form of self-identifying public servants do you find to be worse? Both have now provided lots of money to provably inept corporate executives, . . .
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February 20, 2009 03:25 PM EST --
New cautions are appearing about the use of bio-char and what may happen to carbon already in the soil. I am not going to provide links, because if you search the .orgs promoting forest health, . . .
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February 03, 2009 06:07 PM EST --
My latest idea for basing currency is beans. You can count them. You can eat them. They fix nitrogen in the soil when you plant them, especially good for planting with corn, which inhales . . .
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August 11, 2008 06:18 PM EDT --
The media recruits Paris Hilton to discuss substantive things because it's a combination of man-bites-dog and marginalization of serious topics.
I credit Barack (is it OK for a 58-year old who . . .
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June 25, 2008 08:23 PM EDT --
This past weekend, in Portland, I went to a hands-on humanure-processing demonstration by an M.D. who has been composting humanure in the city without complaints from anyone for a long time. He uses . . .
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Mary S.
Portland, Oregon
Jade Queen some days, Jaded Queen others
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