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Reading This Right Now: Zero Waste Home

Reading This Right Now: Zero Waste Home

| August 15, 2013 | 0 Comments

Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste  (Scribner, 2013) by Bea Johnson Everybody has their little fetishes when it comes to the media they consume.  Today I’m officially coming out as a sort of lifestyle design addict.  From Tim Ferriss to Zen Habits to Mr. Money Moustache to […]

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Welcome to the new, fancy-schmancy Green Hedonist

Welcome to the new, fancy-schmancy Green Hedonist

| November 12, 2012 | 8 Comments

Thanks for taking a few minutes to stop by our new-and-improved web site. My friends and I have had a lot of fun putting this little sprout together, and you’ll be delighted to know that I intend to work very hard to a) not swear at all, and b) not use the word “awesome,” over […]

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You Say Salami, I Say Salumi…

You Say Salami, I Say Salumi…

| November 12, 2012 | 1 Comment

I don’t know if there is a better meal for me than a bottle of wine, a loaf of crusty bread, a wedge of aged cheese, and a log of beautiful sustainably-produced salumi (aka charcuterie, if you prefer the Francais). Properly made and aged, good dry-aged cured meats are a wonderful thing indeed – not […]

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Yum: Living Well as a Spiritual Act

Yum: Living Well as a Spiritual Act

| August 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

I’d been trying to make a plan to get back to a good, balanced place this summer, after a chaotic spring that left me wanting to crawl into bed and stay there for a few months.  Part of the plan is to build more quiet time into my life, and so when I received the […]

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Um, No, Hedonists Don’t Have to be Rich

Um, No, Hedonists Don’t Have to be Rich

| May 30, 2012 | 2 Comments

A friend emailed me today to say how much she was enjoying reading the blog posts, and to congratulate me on “doing so well you can afford this lifestyle.”  Reading those words, I took a long look around the room. Dog is snoring in the bean bag chair, my side table is a big black […]

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Restaurant Review: How do we get more restaurants like Lucky Pie?

Restaurant Review: How do we get more restaurants like Lucky Pie?

| May 20, 2012 | 0 Comments

I didn’t think I could top breakfast at Snooze (at least not in the same weekend) but as it happens, I stumbled over Lucky Pie Pizza and Tap House in Denver yesterday, and now I’m ready to move in right above them. Okay, I’d settle for walking distance. We’d been craving pizza and good beer, […]

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Sneaking onto the Smoothie Bandwagon

Sneaking onto the Smoothie Bandwagon

| May 20, 2012 | 3 Comments

I usually field at least three recommendations a week to start drinking green smoothies.  Friends badger me, my healthier clients drop subtle hints, and they’re all over the news.  The benefits are generally peppered with “antis” — anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, anti-microbial, anti-diabetic, antioxidant.   It’s always sounded like I’d be starting my day at war, slouching into […]

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The Sad End and the Happy Beginning

The Sad End and the Happy Beginning

| May 13, 2012 | 0 Comments

I love tomatoes.  But not those coral-pink, mealy, gross, taste-free tomatoes you usually find in the produce section at the grocery.  REAL tomatoes, the kind that come out of a garden and not out of a styrofoam tray or a clamshell package.  I have grown tomatoes now for several years just because eating a just-picked […]

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Living on Vacation Every Day

Living on Vacation Every Day

| May 8, 2012 | 0 Comments

When my wonderful free-range friend Stacy started a small business called “Live on Vacation Every Day,” I have to admit my first reaction was like the one you’d feel if your favorite kid just told you he was going to build a moon rocket out of the leftover refrigerator box, “Sure you are. Of course […]

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