eco living
Got milk? Heck yeah, I do. But it doesn't come from these: I mean, honestly, when you really think about it, the idea of drinking milk is pretty gross right from the start. Come on, would you drink your mother's breastmilk right now? How about your
books
When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected she’d be a temporary presence. But Alfie’s feathers were not growing correctly, requiring prolonged care. As Alfie grew and gained strength, she became a part of the family. Carl and Patricia began
About Me
The goal of Initiative Exercise 4 was to ask 10 family and friends for advice on your chosen project. In a bit of a turn of events, I started to do this, but within a few interviews, I decided that my chosen project from Exercise 3 was not right for
Green Tech
Sara Turner, Sustainability Manager at Nexii Building Solutions is back to talk about how her challenge went that she decided to take on during our first recording. Was she able to take the plunge? Listen in and find out! Find Sara Turner and Nexii online: * The Nexii Homepage * Sara Turner
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Post-Exercise Reflection The purpose of Initiative Exercise #3 is to reach out to the people you are most comfortable with (and therefore easiest to ask something of) and to ask them for advice on your 5 problem/solution pairs. Also important is working on a few skills as you do:
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Post-Exercise Reflection: For Initiative Exercise #2: '5 Unsolved Problems', the goal is to identify 5 unsolved problems that a specific group of people feel, and come up with a rudimentary solution for them. The exercise was one that I found pretty difficult the first time around - it&
Conservation
Ka-whoooosh, sssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh, glug-waahhhh…..sssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…. Okay, I did my best. Who can tell me what household object makes this sound? Undoubtedly because my sound effect descriptions are terrible (I need to read more comic books), it is perfectly natural that you have no idea. The correct answer is the humble toilet!
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Exercise #1: The Personal Essay Am I ever going to accomplish something truly significant? Am I too old now for becoming someone that could change the world, or even a small group of people only 1 degree of separation from me - a.k.a friends and family? Am I
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How many of you have read this blog since 2020? Probably not too many of you (Hi, mom and dad.). If you are one of those few, you'll remember a series of reflections I wrote for some Method Initiative exercises (you can still find them on this blog,
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1:30am. The baby is starting to fuss. He's hungry. Another 15 minutes and he'll start really wailing. Time to nip this in the bud and go get some milk. The weight of my body feels like it's been multiplied as I try to
About Me
Ever wish you could ditch the guilt associated with throwing away a tube of toothpaste every month? Do you ever go to the supermarket toothpaste aisle and just feel like all the different kinds of toothpastes flavors and benefits are just a bunch of marketing ploys designed to make them
Conservation
First, the tadpoles and frogs disappeared; then the bats and the songbirds left. Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn, a honey bee veterinarian and environmental health scientist, soon realized the bees—the vital pollinators of fruits, plants, and vegetables—were dying. Everything was still and silent. In 2017, after a large flood, most