From the monthly archives:
While I wish I could say that I buy organic candy for the tots who come trotting up to our door each Halloween, alas, I can’t. We live on a really, really busy corner, and we have to buy an insane load of candy each year to provide for all those kids. The running joke [...]
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Holidays (even the Hallmark-manufactured ones) are a time to celebrate the nuances and rituals of being a modern American. While Thanksgiving and Christmas are arguably my favorite holidays, I’ve always enjoyed Halloween, if only for the pumpkin carving (and dressing up like Where’s Waldo, of course). When I was a kid, my sister and I [...]
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I just updated all of the blog buttons to match the new design, so if you’re displaying one of these buttons on your site, please update the code!
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As I mentioned in my post about Prop 2, big meat producers are spending tons of money trying to convince Californians that the initiative will do horrible things. These ads are full of misinformation, and some of them even contain outright lies. They also use scare tactics to scare us into voting no on Prop [...]
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As I’ve mentioned several times before, we have five adopted animals, two cats and three dogs. Lucky, the youngest of the bunch, is a four-foot long mutt who spends his days lounging in the sun and saying what’s up to all of his friends in the neighborhood during our walks. Now, imagine Lucky as I [...]
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As you’ve probably noticed, The Sustainable Scoop has a new design. There was nothing inherently wrong with the old design, exactly, though as I mentioned before I just couldn’t seem to get away from the feeling that it was “formulated” somehow. In short, my personal blog had become much less personal, and I could feel [...]
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Yesterday on Buzzfeed there was a round-up of articles about a baffling group of individuals, the “Never-Greens.” Apparently, about ten percent of Americans don’t give a rat’s ass about the environment, and they aren’t afraid to say so. These are the people who continue to buy Hummers and RVs, who refuse to recycle, and who [...]
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