Reviews
Review: Way of Water
Yesterday we talked about the current “Change the World Wednesdays” challenge. Here is the second installment of my project.
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28Sep2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Review: Enter the Earth
This week’s “Change the World Wednesdays” challenge over on Reduce Footprints is about getting children involved in the environment. For this project, I’m reviewing the first two books in the Gaia Girls series.
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27Sep2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Three Questions: “If Dirt Could Talk”
I found this meticulous review of what sounds like a very impressive book. It’s a textbook about the environmental destruction of the American West.
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30Aug2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Book Review: Crescent City Farmers Market Cookbook
Crescent City Farmers Market Cookbook
Regional farmers’ markets often develop a following based on their particular combination of locally produced foods – and then recipes for what to do with those foods. This book collects some of the recipes from the Crescent City Farmers Market in New Orleans, Louisiana. There are full-color photos, but mostly of people and ingredients, not finished dishes, which was a bit disappointing.
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24Aug2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Book Review: Green Your Home
Green Your Home All in One For Dummies
This book is actually seven books bundled together, covering the main areas of establishing a sustainable lifestyle. Like all “For Dummies” books, this one features italicized vocabulary words (followed by definitions), bulleted lists, numbered instructions, and dingbats for “Remember” (information you’ll use repeatedly), “Tips” (ideas that can help you accomplish things), and “Warnings” (dangers to avoid).
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17Aug2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Book Review: Gaia’s Garden
Gaia’s Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture
This book presents the principles of permaculture – landscaping inspired by nature, designed to be both sustainable and useful – with instructions for applying them to yard-sized areas. It is illustrated with photos in full color and black-and-white, plus diagrams and charts in shades of green and brown.
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11Aug2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Book Review: Fresh Food from Small Spaces
Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener’s Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting
Most books about producing your own food are aimed at rural readers with a substantial amount of outdoor space. This one is aimed at suburban and urban readers with little or no outdoor space. It focuses on “square inch” methods that can get great results from a tiny yard, sidewalk strip, balcony, patio – or even indoor locations such as a windowsill or kitchen.
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8Jun2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Book Review: The End of Money
The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
This book takes a look at how “the economy” evolved, what causes its instability, and what could be done to create a healthier exchange system. The early chapters describe the author’s personal background in economics, crisis and metamorphosis, and opposing philosophies of control.
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5Jun2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Review of Gaiatribe on Buddha Trance
The blog Buddha Trance has posted a lovely review of Gaiatribe. This review really gets to the heart of the blog. Please drop by and take a look at it!
Forgotten Realms Recap #4, Part Two: Wait. What?
Ok, so it’s not exactly "tomorrow." As I said, with the gate opened the company got the hell out of dodge. Previously, any view of the world outside Zhougal Keep stopped after about five feet with impenetrable darkness (not unlike a darkness spell). This time, we were moving through a break in the darkness that appeared relatively normal, and after a short jaunt we were clearly back into normal space. Exhausted, we sat back and, except for some scouting around, waited for the sun to come up. It did. We didn’t die. Success!
With that little detail wrapped up, we assessed the situation. The Nar(f) we had followed were all dead; their leader was gruesomely decapitated by the stone gout that erupted when we first reached the ruins , and we killed the others in the early going of eternal skeletons in the courtyard. Their horses, however, were still around, along with ours, so we had either a) self-propelled loot or b) self-propelled food. Seydlitz was also still alive, and figured to be a bit trickier to deal with. Now that we were on to his magical abilities, he let a shoe drop - he didn’t want to go back to the Adzo. Apparently in Rasheman a male caster gets stuck in a cave or something, and who wants that? Fair enough, said Lu Tse, he can come with us. "Really?" the boy asked excitedly. Nobody in the company was necessarily thrilled with the idea, but they didn’t seem to hate it, either; none of us had a keen interest to stick around except maybe Rahil, but being a native of a village that small is usually contra-indicative of wanting to be in said village.
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17Feb2009 | John | Comments Off | Continued
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Something bad is already happening. People going bankrupt over the cost of the high cost of health care, more and more people homeless every day and so on. Its a slow death.
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This summer we put up a clothes line, although I should use it more, it's hard in the winter. I also have a crochet pattern for making a "Snuggle Up Throw with Sleeves"... Here's the link:
Did anyone make it out this is meet and greet? Wondering about future events and would like some insight. Cheers
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
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