By Laura Parker Roerden I hate spring. It feels freeing to admit that. When you live in a cold clime, there is too much social pressure to triumph spring’s return as if it were the 2nd coming of Jesus Himself, sliding in on a gaudy skateboard wearing a magnolia wreath and tossing chocolate coins toContinue reading “Fire and Ice”
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The Quest
by Laura Parker Roerden You can find just about anything you could dream in an ocean. Tiny horses holding on by prehensile tails to flat vines that float upwards and shimmer in sunlight like cities. Red squid that fly with vampire wings and shoot out light orbs to stun predator or prey. A flat rayContinue reading “The Quest”
An Un-Poem About the Falling Snow
by Laura Parker Roerden 1. I woke up this morning with the phrase, “something uplifting” in my mind, then saw that among the snowfall out my window many snowflakes were rising up on unseen currents. 2. I’m sure a mathematician could help us understand the exact preponderance that falls at a predictable speed to theirContinue reading “An Un-Poem About the Falling Snow”
Pass the Pastured-Eggs, Please!
Best Investments in Sustainability by Laura Parker Roerden What kind of eggs should you buy? Most of us make the decision standing in the grocery aisle, the refrigerator door open scanning cartons with claims like “cage-free,” “organic,” “antibiotic free” and the ever-confusing “natural,” while we mentally calculate how much more we are spending for theContinue reading “Pass the Pastured-Eggs, Please!”
4 Reasons it’s High Season to Buy an Electric Vehicle (EV)
by Laura Parker Roerden Best Investments in Sustainability Last Memorial Day our family finally replaced our 15-year old premium-gas guzzling car. You could say that it was high time! But it was also an opportunity to think out of the box about our transportation needs and the challenges facing our planet. We bought an electricContinue reading “4 Reasons it’s High Season to Buy an Electric Vehicle (EV)”
Wrappin’ It Up
Best Investments in Sustainability by Maria Dee We don’t wrap Christmas presents. To tell you that this started as an earth-friendly initiative would be a lie. During the Christmas season of 2010, I had a 9-year old, a 4-year old, and an 11-month old. My husband and I had a Christmas Eve routine that workedContinue reading “Wrappin’ It Up”
Beeswax Food Cloth
Best Investments in Sustainability by Guest Blogger Bonnie Combs “Plastic is Drastic,” said a local fourth-grader working on a poster to promote plastic bag recycling at her school. Along with startling images of sea turtles negatively impacted by plastic pollution and plastic bags caught in tree branches blowing in the wind, those words could notContinue reading “Beeswax Food Cloth”
Cloth Everyday
by Guest Blogger Sarah Harrison Roy of Running Girl Eats Best Investments in Sustainability Cloth napkins: why even bother to write about something so ordinary? Well, to me there’s nothing ordinary about cloth napkins. To me, they are gorgeous works of art that lighten up and decorate the kitchen table. To me, they are anContinue reading “Cloth Everyday”
#GivingTuesday: Serving up Sustainability!
Best Investments in Sustainability by Laura Parker Roerden Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers — Wordsworth. A whole culture of shopping has sprouted up around Thanksgiving weekend: Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. But perhaps you also have heard of Giving Tuesday. The first three are waysContinue reading “#GivingTuesday: Serving up Sustainability!”
Leave Your Leaves!
Best Investments in Sustainability by Laura Parker Roerden What’s better than something you do to help create a more sustainable earth and life? Something you simply stop doing; especially if it’s a chore in which you had previously invested time, money, and effort. It turns out that the late fall chore of removing your leavesContinue reading “Leave Your Leaves!”