I’m looking for grass, but I don’t want to buy it from just any source. No, I need a specific kind of dealer … a transaction that makes me feel safe and confident. See, I’m looking to build up the organic material I can add in coming years to my garden, and I want to [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Being Green’
June 2, 2008
Scratch and sniff.
Oh, if only the internet offered a scratch-and-sniff option. Your nose might be as happy as mine is at this moment. Those are fresh strawberries, right out of the garden. Fresh, fragrant and home-grown.
And gone. Took me but a minute or two to eat them all after taking this photo.
April 20, 2008
Earth Day: Gettin’ wiggly wit it
It’s Earth Day weekend, so to speak. Everyone’s going green. Except me. Hey, call me an iconic gen xer. I’m just so tired of causes, preaching and big-cost events to show alignment with values. So, I skipped the Green Apple Festival in DC and went brown. Yes, brown as in earth, dirt, soil.
See, yesterday, a [...]
March 16, 2008
Local Wild Life Hero
Michael Oberman, ozoni11 on flickr, tells a story of a how one of his photos, and the concern and action of a few others, saved this beautiful Great Blue Heron from death. Here’s the story, below, but you gotta click to see the pics. From a Feb. 2008 post on Michael’s flickr account –
For several [...]
March 9, 2008
A gardener’s paradise on Freecycle ?
I think it would be just grand if there was a Gardeners’ Paradise on Freecycle. A site just for perennial plants wanted and given. A site where people could find homes for (as opposed to The Dump, aka Alpha Ridge Landfill) their unwanted hardscape. A place where neighbors could help neighbors beautify their yards and [...]
December 9, 2007
Girlfriend(s) to Girlfriend(s) Gift Idea
Hi there, Ladies. I have something I want to share: an alternative to the classic gift exchange ever-so-common to this time of year. Here it is: Rather than guessing what your girlfriends want for Christmas (or whatever holiday language you choose to use), consider instead that you find presents for each other, together. If your [...]
October 15, 2007
Geese Police Franchises Available
It’s time to get those fake-lake-lovin’ geese packing. And there appears to be money to be made in the process.
September 26, 2007
Be kind to the butterflies
They were pushing ‘weed.
Milkweed, that is.
I met some ladies at the Takoma Park Folklife Festival, and they explained to me that the monarch butterfly, which traverses crazy distances (3,200 miles) to chill with its homeboys in Mexico, needs milkweed to lay its eggs. See, not one butterfly flies the whole distance to Mexico. They migrate [...]
September 7, 2007
Weed? Grass? What’s the difference?
Well, if you’re a human, “weed” and “grass” may seem to be the same thing. But if you were a goat … well, there’s a world of difference. And this distinction may provide some interesting options for controlling scrub.
Did you know? Goats prefer weeds over grass; they also seem to like sticky, thorny plants. Go [...]
September 6, 2007
Strolling Amidst the Poison
I don’t expect this blog post to fall easily on most people’s ears. Or psyches.
I’m writing about the stink over the arsenic contamination at the to-be-developed land in the Turf Valley area.
I have a fair amount of experience in this subject, namely by having as a client, for many years, a company that manufacturers bioremediation [...]
August 29, 2007
Local Color
Red, green, yellow, orange … these are some of the colors you’ll see at the farmers markets in Howard County. If you aren’t yet hip to “local is the new organic,” here’s an article from Baltimore’s Urbanite (available free at your local library) about how easy it is … being green … when buying locally [...]
August 25, 2007
Bag Ladies … and a new look
Cosmos raises the question / issue / conversation of reusable bags at stores (in one of his comments on “Read the Signs.”) I’m not going to link to online articles discussing the subject. I’m not going to point to the good or the bad. I just want to know: How do you, personally, if at [...]
August 13, 2007
It’s EZ Being Green
Folks, there’s a really ez way to reduce traffic congestion in the region. Get an EZ Pass. Having one accomplishes so much with so little, such as –
Easing traffic congestion
Reducing pollution (in the form of auto emissions from idled cars)
Reducing the tax burden by reducing “man hours”
Let me show you just how simple it is [...]
July 30, 2007
Mandating Green
I’m not a big fan of mandatory do-goodedness, such as is happening in the current conversation about mandatory green buildings and LEED certification for buildings of a certain size or more.
Please don’t be an idiot and attempt to dissect my position by saying that I, therefore, must be advocating that we should have no standards [...]
June 8, 2007
Clean Commute: Ultra Premium
I just read about County Executive Ken Ulman’s “declaring May ‘Clean Commute Month‘ in Howard County and challenging residents to consider an alternative to driving their cars.” It goes on to say, “Today’s announcement is consistent with one of County Executive Ulman’s top priorities: bold and innovative protection of the environment in Howard County.”
OK, I [...]
May 11, 2007
Hyper-local Freecycle
I joined Freecycle recently to offload some items from an estate. It’s a great function offered on the internet where people can post physical items they are giving away, and others can offer to take them. I think the general concept is just grand. But I find myself less and less interested in it, for [...]
