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I’m a sprout farmer! What started out as a handful of mung beans are now nice, crunchy, protein- and enzyme-rich sprouts. Very exciting. And you can do it too if you haven’t before. Here are easy-peasy basic instructions for mungs and a few links in case you want to get fancier. 1) Get a Mason…

We all know that changing to energy-efficient, compact-flourescent lightbulbs can significantly lower our carbon footprints.  But did you know that these bulbs, while “green” in the energy-usage sense, actually contain mercury, a toxic metal? This makes the bulbs potentially dangerous to pregnant women, children, and others if they break–and if they wind up in landfills,…

Lately I’ve been waking up in the morning and just lying in bed for a while, listening. My ears fill with a rush of… nothing. Just a rich silence. I can almost see it. It’s like a dense meringue of nothingness. And it seems to help with my day to really drink that in first…

So, I just ordered a countertop for the kitchen we’re renovating in our new house.  It’s engineered quartz, non-porous, very low VOC-emitting, smooth, and gorgeous.  And it’s apple green.  Like, seriously apple green. The kitchen will be blue, green, and white, with the green counter, blue accents in the backsplash and on the walls, and…
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