Last night I had the great privilege to attend the Wild and Scenic Film Festival here in my laid-back but happening hometown of Staunton, Va. Sponsored by SYRCL, a California river protection group and supported by Grist magazine and a bunch of good corporate stewards, the festival is in its ninth year. Their 2011 roster offers amazing movies profiling cool…
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Screen-Free Week
Last week I took a staycation retreat with my husband. We wanted an environment that was not our own to focus on our business goals for the coming six months. So we got a room at the lovely Stonewall Jackson Hotel just a few blocks from our house. While we did get a lot of work done, in some ways…
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The luxury of simplicity
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. — G.K. Chesterton Last night I went to the last in a series of Lenten events on simplicity at my church. The series covered everything from dealing with clutter and finances to our spiritual lives. Last night’s was…
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Separating the wheat from the chaff
Probably one of the coolest revivals to take place in the local foods movement is the return of local breweries and brew pubs. Fifty to sixty years ago local breweries were no special thing. Cities everywhere had them, and had had them for decades. Locals drank the local brew, which varied from region to region depending on the influences that…
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Carrying a torch for energy conservation
The creative people at Friends of the Earth (FOE) showed their media savvy recently with the release of Chloe and Will’s Hot Date Night. In the video, energy-obsessed Chloe, a fickle minx with the hots for both her date and R30 insulation, turns up the heat of her passion with every energy-saving discovery she finds in her boyfriend’s apartment. Well…
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That 70s show
Fashion observers from haute couture to the New York Times to The Today Show are hailing the return of fun 70s garb in the spring fashion season. Mini skirts and longer hemlines too, funky bags, clunky bracelets and other throwbacks to the era of polyester and All In The Family are all the rage. Of course the fashionistas want you…
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