Your turn to help me –

Blogging’s been light because I was in the High Sierra area of Sierra National Forest over the long weekend.

We hiked 8 or so miles and up about 2000 feet to camp at Read more...

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>> Drinking while flying don’t necessarily make you drunker, “but alcohol could make your altitude sickness a little worse.”

>> Bike lanes as billboard. The City of London (Ontario) allows the Egg Farmers...
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Camping over the long weekend? Make s’mores — with fair trade chocolate — then let your s’more be counted by registering it!...
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>> Arcosanti: visionary architect Paolo Soleri’s eco-city in Arizona. “Nobody wanted to hear his diagnosis of the ills of US society, but it has been proved right - the car-centric, inefficient, horizontal suburban model has left us in poor shape to cope with...
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>> The former South Central Farm site won’t become a warehouse for at least a year, pending an environmental review. Community activists are psyched. Earlier: A Forever 21...
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A twice-weekly sharing of eco-shwag.

One lucky winner will get two organic cotton mesh produce bags, made under fair trade conditions in India. Both are from French Basketeer, which makes very cute reusable totes.

Comment or email by Sunday to get into the drawing, which’ll happen...
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>> Love to draw? Here’s how to draw anything in one step: Draw a dog covering the thing you can’t draw. “I have never personally been interested in drawing weaponry, but even with my lack of experience I was able to use my own tutorial to complete...
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Maybe this is why I have trouble with fiction. From Robert Kelly’s poem “Injune”:

An angel came to me today & told me that my proud dislike of narrative reveals an unwillingness to be accountable for my own actions. I contended that narrative is mostly...
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