Gracious living that's light on the earth
When I was soaking in a nice hot bath the other day just letting my cares float away it dawned on me—again—what an unrivaled luxury a hot bath is. Throughout most of human history a hot bath was so rare (if it happened at all) as to be beyond the concept of luxury. After all, it was likely shared in…
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For my very first post on Lindsay’s List let me state the obvious: use your own bags when shopping Duh! Encouraging consumers to bring their own bags to grocery stores and malls is the no-brainer of the conservation lifestyle. But even though it’s obvious, I have to say it again. The statistics are so alarming. Between 500 billion and a…
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A small amount of prepared foods have been around since there were first open air markets in any of the big cities of the world. But mostly this took the form of dried meats or already ground spices. And you brought your own cloth sacks. It wasn’t until the mid 18th century that more prepared and packaged foods were available,…
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Sometimes I hate it that we live in a so-called globalized world. Or even that we’re so linked by the Internet. It’s not that I don’t think it’s great that I can know about lives in, say, Japan, and what they’re struggling with. That knowledge engages my compassion and helps me grow in my caring feelings towards others. It’s also…
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During the past decade or so the “LOHAS” market has grown wildly. LOHAS stands for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability. In short it means that more people are making the choice to buy organic, shop at farmer’s markets, take yoga and other therapeutic fitness classes, support their local farm-to-fork restaurants and so on. And the majority are women. The Natural…
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Government get’s a bad rap in the US these days, always under fire from some demagogue or another trying to make a point. And those ranters are helped by evil genius front groups like Americans for Prosperity who seem to think we should have no roads or sewage systems or schools or emergency agenices because it’s too burdensome to the…
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