From the category archives:
As I mentioned over the weekend, I spent the last few days visiting my grandmother in Arizona. I joined my sister, my mom, and my aunt and uncle in the town of Payson, Arizona for the trip, which was enjoyable. However, I was concerned about finding healthy food in the town, and for good reason.
Payson [...]
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Most days, I feel confident that I’m living the natural life fairly well. The following day I’ll be overwhelmed by new, green information spurting from just about everywhere: magazines, blogs, the newspaper, NPR, oh my! I peek in our refrigerator to admire gorgeous organic produce, walk barefoot on bamboo floors, pour non-toxic laundry liquid into [...]
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Last weekend Ted and I were on a road trip, and we scheduled a brief visit to Death Valley National Park. We stayed on the north side of the park, and in the morning we ate at the lodge’s restaurant. As we scanned the menu, we noticed that the side of fruit was listed for [...]
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This morning as Ted and I set out on the first day of our road trip, we decided to stop by Whole Foods to stock up on snacks for the road. We bought Fuji apples, bananas from EARTH University, a bag of organic granola from the bulk section, two bottles of green jasmine Tea’s Tea, [...]
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This day was our last day at EARTH, and our last full day in Costa Rica. After a breakfast meeting, we loaded into Matt’s car to check out some of the facilities at EARTH, and then one last trip to the banana farm.We found a couple of guys who were harvesting the bananas, which is [...]
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I grew up on the Southern California coast, where the sea breeze creates a lovely little pocket of somewhat cleaner air that allows the residents of the area to pretend that the smog in SoCal isn’t so bad. As long as you look west, out over the ocean, you never have to know what that [...]
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When I first launched this site, my friend Bob Bjarke sent me a link for a Google service that helps you find eco-minded restaurants and lodging in five major U.S. cities. Whether your destination is San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Orlando, or New York, there’s a list of businesses and a video tour to [...]
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I hate RVs. I despise the concept of driving around in a giant ship-like atrocity that gets horrendous gas mileage, particularly if this vehicle contains only two people, far too small a load to justify all that gasoline. Possessing minimal style, they’re an eyesore on the road. An RV is a quintessentially American vehicle, because [...]
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