Author Archive: greenhedonist
Friday Freedonist: What’s Free in YOUR Town?
We like to have fun, but our greenie life can be expensive sometimes, and that money has to come from somewhere (have you priced really good local cheese lately?) So we’re always on the lookout for free things to see, do, and learn. We live near Denver, which is hardly L.A. or New York or […]
Friday Freedonist: A Half-Hour of Pure Bliss
Do you know what yoga nidra is? Before your brain starts conjuring up images of twisting your body into odd shapes and stretching to rest your head next to your buttocks, hold up (Martha Beck once described her yoga instructor as looking “… like the very serene victim of a terrible, terrible crime.”) Yoga nidra […]
One Simple Thing: Replace Your Nasty-Ass Spray Cleaner Today
Time: 1 minute, or a trip to the store. Cost: $0.50 – $4.00. Benefits: Health, Money, Pollution I grew up fascinated with the women with perfect hair and nails on television, spraying the latest miracle cleaner on countertops, sinks, the mailman, etc. Look! You just spray it on, wipe it off, and all of those […]
One Simple Thing: No-Brainer Organic Bread (even gluten free!) for Less Than a Buck
Time: A trip to the thrift store. Cost: $7.00 – 10.00 investment maximum. Benefits: Health, Money, Deliciousness This is the first in what I hope is a lifelong series on small, super-quick, easy things you can do to live better, eat better, have fun, and green up your life…all at the same time. I […]
Recipe: Black Bean Chili with Alaskan Smoked Porter
Well, yesterday I worked myself into a serious jones for chili while writing about Alaskan Brewing Company. Enjoy this standard recipe from our house for a smoky-spicy vegetarian-or-not chili. (Can be doubled, and you’ll thank yourself if you freeze a batch for later) 2 T olive oil 1 large yellow onion, peeled and chopped 1 […]
Decorating with Meaning: A Different Way to Look at Your Space
From where I sit, I can look around the room and know that I am part of something good. On the wall to my left, there is a brilliantly-colored painting, a gift, made by a local artist who does an amazing job at capturing animals in their natural habitat. The subject(s) are a cluster of […]
Does Your Favorite Brewery Turn Out More Than Just Liquid Deliciousness?
On Wednesday of this week, we will have a HIGH temperature of five degrees Fahrenheit here at Chez GH. An Arctic blast that everyone I know – husband, dogs, friends, family – will hate. Juneau, Alaska will have a high of 23, downright balmy by comparison. To celebrate being trapped in the house, cleaning up […]
The Garden in Winter: Five Things Gardeners Can Do to Beat the Winter Blues
Confession time: At the height of the harvest in early September, I am praying for the peace and quiet of February. My kitchen counters are groaning with produce that needs to be chopped, blanched, canned, frozen, dried. There’s not much room for anything else, to be honest, and so it sometimes sneaks out into other […]
Happy Birthday to Me: Are You Celebrating Your Birthday (Week) in Green Hedonist Style?
Let me start by explaining that, here in our house, the concept of isolating a single 24-hour period to celebrate the day of our emergence on this planet is laughable. Twenty fours hours to celebrate 52 years of this wild, inexplicable, crazy, maddening, magnificent aliveness? Yeah, see, I don’t think so. So some time ago […]
9 Good Things About Living without a Microwave, and 1 Bad Thing
So I was nuking a bowl of leftover chili the other day, and with a mighty crack-sizzle-pop, our microwave gave up the ghost. My initial reactions were, in order: 1. Damn! I really wanted that chili. 2. Hel-lo, you have a range top and more cooking vessels than god, knucklehead. 3. Oh yeah. I wonder […]
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