By Sharon Cousins, 2nd in a 3-part series! Part 1: Solar Cooking: Clean, Bright, and Accessible Part 3: Cleaner Cooking, Healthier Planet More than half the world’s six billion people depend on solid fuel for cooking–wood, charcoal, coal, crop residue, or dung. Fuel must be purchased or laboriously gathered and carried home. The humanitarian toll…
I am insignificant. What can I do? I’m nobody. No one listens to me. Heck, hardly anyone even comes to my blog! Why should I bother? I may as well give it up. There are six billion people on the planet, and I am only one. I can’t make a difference. Oh yeah. So easy…
I came across this Eating Green Calculator from @TakePart on Twitter. I should have remembered that ‘eating green’ can mean more than eating responsibly. They are using their calculator to discourage meat and animal products (cheese, eggs) and encourage the eating of greens…vegetables. I’ve got nothing against vegetables. We grow a fairly large garden every…
Once upon a time folks had plenty of ways to keep their homes cool, and none of them involved air conditioning. They understood that hot air rises and knew how to use this to their advantage. Here are eleven considerations when trying to cool your home. It’s better to prevent your house from over-heating than…
By Sharon Cousins: First in a 3-part series! Part 2: Out of the Smoke, Into the Sun Part 3:Cleaner Cooking, Healthier Planet What is cleaner than clean, brighter than bright, and can cook your food for free, with zero pollution? The power of sunshine, which I cook with more than my stove up to six…
A guest post by Anna Clark: As the latest oil spill streams uncontrollably into the Gulf, destroying wildlife, wetlands and livelihoods, we ask ourselves, “What can I do to change this?” The answer, as I’ve come to learn it, is simple, though not always easy. If you want to change the world, begin with yourself….