Sustainability Blogs

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• A Case Study In Selling Your Car And Using Ebikes And Carshare Instead — What if your car is costing you $500 a month for nothing? In this case study I explain how my friend sold his car for ab
• The virtue of thrift — A farmhouse frozen in time taught me the virtue of thrift. I remember walking to my grandparents' 1920 white farmhouse,
• Denial Of Service — Imagine hauling a Christmas tree through freezing rain on a bike. That pop up treecycling drop off saved me and laid bar
• How Sewage Recycling Works — What happens when a city nearly runs out of water and turns wastewater into drinking water? I walk through how sewage re
• Hurricane vs. Tiny House — What happens when a simulated storm surge hits a tiny house? At O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory I watch a wave ta
• Earthquake-Proof Foundations — USC Keck stayed open during the Northridge quake because of its foundation. This Practical Engineering video transcript
• The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls — Standing at the rim of Horseshoe Falls, I map the hidden engineering of Niagara. This transcript of my video tours the N
• Do Retention Ponds Actually Work? — Curious if retention ponds actually work? At Atlanta's Historic Fourth Ward Park I show how a 5 acre stormwater pond sol
• Grow your own; make your own — Tired of recalls and dodgy salad bags? How to grow spinach in a polytunnel is in this post, with library seed packets, 4
• Eating the seed corn, Not — Surprising truth: starving scientists refused to eat the priceless seed bank. While writing book reviews at Coolock Bran
• Planting with the city — A damp morning, 50+ volunteers and 90 minutes turned a lawn edge in Taylor Creek Park into a new shrubby forest. In this
• The Grand Staircase — Shrinking the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument left me quietly melancholy. Raised on Desert Solitaire, my fat
• A Lovely Solution — What to do with leftover fabric? I started making padded hangers to match dresses and use up scraps. This post shows my
• Going native — Ever noticed nasturtiums bursting into life in October? I left ours to self-seed for years, only moving odd seedlings. B
• Squashed — A small wildlife experiment in the back bed this autumn. I left our carved Halloween pumpkins in the southern corner to
• Starting from scratch — A soggy, stripped lawn felt like an inland beach when we moved in. I've brought in landscapers to plan the new garden, o
• The geography of a storm — Scenes of streets turned rivers open this post. I map Hurricane Melissa’s hit on Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba, unpack how deb
• Where have the Chapungu gone? — Where did the chapungu go? I get cranky about Terence O. Ranger, the decline of the bateleur eagle in Zimbabwe, and how
• If It Was Only This Easy – a post-Election Day quilt — What happens when policy changes meet a sewing machine? My post-Election Day quilt If It Was Only This Easy joins my Ele
• Drawing Down Towards Climate Solutions — Quilting became my way to teach climate solutions. I stitched ten mini quilts inspired by Project Drawdown and turned my
• Italian Stone Pine Tree Burial — When two Stonehenge pines fell in our field I had to face tree removal, a fallen tree on my massage room and the weight
• On finding old cherry tomatoes in the back of the refrigerator — I discover them too late but not quite too late. This is about forgotten ingredients, second chances, and what we salvag
• Plastic Paper — A thoughtful observation on material choices, waste, and modern convenience, using everyday packaging as a prompt to ref
• Classic Cars and Wales — "NEC Wales" doc or film about Welsh nuclear energy history/tech. Explores regional industry, environmental impact, natio