As we prepared this blog post, both the east and west coasts of the USA have been engulfed in record-setting heat waves, the likes of...

As I type this, the western United States is engulfed in a record-breaking heatwave and drought. At the same time, sea levels continue...

As Summer of 2021 begins to take hold, and the whole world begins to open up to a post social distancing world, it is a great time to...

We often hear from people who want help promoting sustainable living. Our answer: Bernadette, the Sustainability Chicken. When we began...

The only marsupial found in the USA, the Opossum, is an interesting and relative newcomer to Minnesota. Back when we worked and...

As this is our first winter with chickens there were a lot of things we did not know coming into the season. Would the watering system...

Before getting too far into this post, we have to first say that we have a pretty large (18 panels) solar array on our house. We love it....

It is a destructive form of planned obsolescence, a way of making our old stuff as obsolete as quickly as possible so that we need to go out

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For those uninitiated to nicotine addiction, consider this: it is the third most addictive drug, coming in just behind heroin and cocaine. O

Maybe it's because yesterday was the global climate strike, or maybe it's just this time of year. I began to pose the question to myself--if

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The DOE has a stated goal of cleaning the existing contaminated sites by 2025. Just one site in Fernald, Ohio has "31 million pounds of ura

"Earth is a sphere. All our actions should be guided by this fact." —R. Buckminster Fuller

As the 2019 growing season comes to a close, we are celebrating the bounty the Earth has brought us. With the pantry stocked with another ye

Home made flax gel makes shiny hair

I don't remember the exact day I began the process of becoming a year-round bicyclist. However, what began as a weekend adventure of short

As we work to make a better future for ourselves, we look to do three basic things: 1) To restore things from the past that used to work...

Paper companies apparently think it is OK to wipe their butts - literally - with old-growth boreal forests. They are clear cutting them and

A soft and pensive voice says, "I think that most of feel that something bad is coming our way." The voice is that of a 13-year-old girl i