For 20 years now I’ve been volunteering for groups that do eco-restoration, and lately I’ve decided to go beyond volunteering and write about the work of others, to spread the word about...
Denver City Council changed zoning so that both homeowners and renters can sell produce and cottage foods from their homes.
Funny signs from England.
Beth's lunch at vegetarian restaurant Terre à Terre in Brighton, England, was an artful, if tiring, experience.
Last Saturday I spent a morning helping Groundwork Denver and Produce Denver prepare two large plots at McGlone Elementary School. Denver Public Schools contracted with Produce Denver to grow produce...
Finding Vivian Maier is playing at the Sie Film Center through Thursday, though only at 2 pm. There’s a slight possibility its run may be extended. Go if you can—it’s a fabulous movie...
All the signs about security cameras in the UK make Beth feel unhappy.
My only complaint about Five Points Jazz Fest is that I can’t see all the bands, but I did spend most of Saturday there, listening to Vintage 3D (soul and jazz with a most entertaining singer...
Beth goes back to the University of Sussex, where she was an exchange student, after 30 years.
Beth wanders The Lanes in Brighton and finds men making art.
Like many young girls, I went through a horsey phase. I read Black Beauty and Misty of Chincoteague and played with a plastic horse that I could walk into its stable by pressing down on its back...
Beth visits the National Museum of the American Indian in DC in 2012.
No doubt fruit foraging is happening somewhere, somehow in Denver, but I don’t know about it. In the meantime, you can get an edible forest planted in Kansas City, and you can go forage for...
Potato Pie with Sausage and Cheese? Yes, please! The picture looks yummy, but the best thing about Love Food Hate Waste is that it provides practical advice about turning those leftovers into...
Beth and Todd eat at Mac's on Boston Street the night before his surgery for SCDS.
Beth gets a gold medal for Christmas.
Fall 2013 has been a great year for warblers along the Colorado Front Range, including a very late ovenbird.
I read Joel Makower’s interview with William McDonough on Green Biz and felt that I had met a kindred spirit—about packaging, that is. McDonough is a designer, an architect, an entrepreneur...
Don’t grow transplants in those cheap plastic pots (the ones that crackle between your fingers with the slightest bit of pressure) and then throw away the pots when you’ve moved the...
Todd and Beth return to Louisiana and Dr. Gerard Gianoli for surgery to correct superior semicircular canal dehiscence on Todd's left side.
Birds eating plastic—that was not news to me. But I hadn’t heard about whales unwittingly consuming plastic while feeding, as indicated by this article on Real News 24. It makes sense. If the...
Kansas City has been testing my resolve to use less plastic. One night my sister and I went to the deli at Jasper’s, a famous Italian restaurant now located in south Kansas City, and ordered...
One year ago, Beth ate at Charcoal Kabob in Reston, Virginia, and was reminded of why she wants to go to Afghanistan.
MillerCoors in Golden used to produce 135 tons of trash per month. Now they send none to the landfill. None. That’s almost enough to make me drink Coors. MillerCoors Brewery Now Recycles All...
In mid-September, the northern Front Range of Colorado (the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains) received more rain than it does in a year. The week of September 9, rain fell continuously for about...