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Posted on Tuesday August 18th, 2009 at 13:29 in sustainability, community garden, hyde park, sustainable food, chicago life, city gardening chicago
I’ve been trying to get into a community garden here in the neighborhood and am looking forward to maybe next year being my year. The garden at 61st street has been kind of in limbo due to a pending construction project at the University of Chi...
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Posted on Saturday August 15th, 2009 at 12:45 in sustainability, green ideas, simplify, hyde park, chicago life, our new house, green landscaping, conscious consumption, ban leaf blowers, randomly ranting, leaf blower ban, leaf blowers chicago
Since our move to the new neighborhood leaf blowers have been more and more common. Our neighbors actually have yards here and many of them hire people to come out and care for them. Leaf blowers have always kind of gotten on my nerves. They are nois...
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Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 13:04 in sustainability, reducing, simplify, chicago life, conscious consumption, garbage makes me angry, randomly ranting, styrofoam ban chicago, styrofoam food trays schools
Yesterday I was reading an article on a group of people here in Chicago who are trying to get the city to ban stryofoam. Yay! Finally!! I was completely shocked and appalled to learn that Chicago Public Schools serve school lunches to it’s 400,...
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Posted on Tuesday August 4th, 2009 at 10:31 in homemade, apiary, chicago life, locavore, local honey, food experiments, honey and allergies, chicago honey co-op, chicago bees, chicago honey, folk-remedies
For the past year or 2 my allergies have been building and building. I was never allergic to anything as a child but things change as you get older. I definitely have some tree pollen allergies and wine. Red wine is worse but I’ve noticed white...
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Posted on Thursday July 23rd, 2009 at 11:01 in dog stories, dog gear, conscious consumption, eco-friendly pet, bpa free plastics, randomly ranting, antimicrobial dog bowls, antimicrobial not the best, eco dog stuff, pesticides in our homes, recyclable dog bowls, why antibacterial is bad
This morning I was going through my email and I got my mass email from The Nest. Every once in a while I like to look around that site, it’s a guilty pleasure. I clicked through to read an article and starting browsing around. Thumbing through ...
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Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 13:20 in summer, green ideas, reducing, chicago life, our new house, conscious consumption, natural cooling, cooling without ac, green alternatives to air conditioning
This week summer finally arrived. Yay! Well kind of.. This is my first summer in a couple years without central air and it’s definitely an adjustment. The major challenges to keeping the place cool are #1 We’re on the 3rd floor #2 South f...
Great article (and blog)! And nope ... you're not the only one ... I go crazy when I see all the antibacterial products out there. Thanks for sharing this!
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