Category: Sustainable
One Simple Thing: Homemade Mayonnaise in Less Than Two Minutes
Following on last week’s mustard revelation, one of the best things I started to do this year was to make my own mayonnaise. We don’t use a lot of it, mostly tuna sandwiches, sandwich spread, and cold salads, but one look at the ingredients panel of most mayonnaise containers makes me shudder. And to add insult […]
One Simple Thing: Pick One Thing You Trash, and Try to Find a Place to Recycle It
Mr. GH and I have a lot of little fun rituals that help us keep life interesting (no, none involve chanting or sacrificing small animals). One of them sprung from a desire to recycle something we hated constantly throwing away. We have a big bin in the garage into which we toss waxed cardboard beverage […]
Five Unorthodox Reasons Why You Should Grow Some Your Own Food (A Little…or a Lot)
In no particular order: When you grow your own stuff, you can tell Monsanto to shove it. In September of 2014, GMO giant Syngenta Crop Protection LLC asked the US Environmental Protection Agency to increase the legal tolerance for neonicotinoid pesticides on crops. Neonicotinoids, as you may have read, are now widely regarded as the […]
One Simple Thing: Great Coffee That Doesn’t Hurt People
Time: A few extra minutes on your next trip to the store. Cost: Costs a bit more, but worth every dime Benefits: Better taste, health, money, pollution, kindness If you don’t drink coffee, well, don’t worry about this one. But as coffee is said to be the second most valuable traded commodity in the world […]
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 […]
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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