Local Food for Sustainable Living Winnie the Pooh had it just about right: Find the honey tree in your own backyard and eat to your belly’s content. Of course, what with bee stings and rabbit-sized jars of honey, getting his fill wasn’t easy. But as time went by, Pooh ate so much honey that he …
Indigenous Peoples’ Day has come and gone, and Thanksgiving week is on the horizon. Now come the days of lesser light when, in Abenaki tradition, Penibagos, the Leaf Falling Moon, will be followed by Pebonkas, the Winter Maker. Fallen leaves will crunch underfoot when hunters stalk the woodlands and fields. How longstanding is the tradition …
Did you know that the average home has enough air leakage to add up to a two-foot square hole? This means that, when combined, all those cracks and leaks add up to the equivalent of leaving a window open in your house all winter long! This is a problem when it comes to paying the …
As if there aren’t already enough scams and deceptive marketing techniques to watch out for, environmentally-minded consumers have another pitfall to keep in mind: greenwashing. “Greenwashing,” coined in the 1980s in an essay by environmentalist Jay Westerveld, is when a company markets their services or products as more sustainable than they truly are. This practice misleads …
