Sustainability Blog

I've become involved in the human powered kinetic sculpture world. Many of the billions of people on Earth use their muscles to mee...

I've begun getting video. http://vimeo.com/user7636532/building-a-floating-island

I'm pondering galvanized pipes. Oliver Cannell, a student currently studying environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia in ...

Xena and Caitlan bought a water heater and brought it home in the tiny car. Gently. I heard all about shopping at Home Depot in high heels. ...

One of the water heaters stopped functioning. The other one. Karl and I replaced the first of these some time ago; they were contemporaries ...

My amazing friend Bonita held a reunion of sorts at Mariposa Grove. Friends, former neighbors and teachers flowed through the community fro...

When I wonder if I'm still following my calling (as it becomes easier, and familiar, I have to find a compass other than "is this t...

The Governator wants cities to reduce water usage 20%? It took some sleuthing, but I finally found information that is (possibly) undiluted ...

I just saw a wonderful picture on a old friend's blog of her rain collection barrel. It's raining quite a bit today. I just took the...

We live in a house with no water (we're sort of practicing our habits of how life could be if a massive earthquake severed the water sup...

I gave myself the evening off from everything to go to a party. I went to dinner first, and about 8 o'clock I glanced at my phone. I ha...

We've worked out why Karl and Nini's bedroom floods. We can chalk it up to the previous owners, again, just like all the other inan...

I love drying off after my low-flow 3/4 gallon per minute shower with a big, soft towel, fresh out of the closet. Why is the towel shedding?...

The news came down today that our municipal water agency, EBMUD, has initiated water rationing. At the same time, I see an article from a Sa...

Zone 5 is where a permaculturist doesn't make any changes to nature, but rather is inspired by Her ways. The slot canyons of southern Ut...

We're getting most of our ideas for the garden out of Toby Hemenway's Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture. Aaron,...

My friend David Sylvester sells Nikken products. He came over with a loaner water purifier and tank, which I'm using to try to wean my f...