New Years Resolutions Made Easy

Many of us see the New Year as a clean slate, an opportunity to set new goals and stick to them without past failures weighing us down. Rightly, these resolutions often include our health: exercising more, eating healthier, and balancing Learn More …

Learning to Love LEDs: the big, the bad, and the brilliant

While we all like LEDs in our gadgets, many of us haven’t made that leap to LEDs at home. LEDs aren’t the bluish, ghastly fiends that they use to be. They don’t even take light years to warm up anymore. Learn More …

Ethical Holiday Shopping: Do Good While Giving Goods

Start off your holiday shopping in the true spirit of the season! Show your compassion by giving gifts that are ethically sourced and committed to making our communities a brighter. Subtle, Chic Clothing I’m so late on this awesome bus Learn More …

Winter preparations for spring gardening

My little plot isn’t fit for winter gardening. It gets zero sun. The good news is that I can focus my free time elsewhere (maybe learning sign language, touching up my Spanish, home decor, and marathon training).  More good news? Learn More …

Fighting green dreams deferred

On this blog, I make an effort to present easy ways to adapt a sustainable lifestyle. But let’s face it. Sometimes being green isn’t easy. An eco-friendly, healthy lifestyle becomes particularly challenging when you aren’t starting from scratch. This has never been more Learn More …

Cute Lil’ Weapons of Mass Destruction: Organic Garden Pest Control

Battling bugs can be a source of stress and discomfort for gardeners, particularly folks like me who really, really, don’t like killing things. There’s no way around it so lets dig into some tried and true (and some disappointing) ways Learn More …

Soil preparation: surprisingly complicated and interesting

My little garden stressed me out through the beginning of the season! I can recall nights when the rain was pounding down and I lay in bed hoping that the entire garden wasn’t washing away down the hill. I don’t Learn More …