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  • Everyday Green: Enjoy a Green Thanksgiving

    Thanksgiving – a time for celebration, a time of abundance and gratitude, and a time for connecting with family and friends. Do we need to make this a green occasion? After all it only comes once a year. Maybe that’s the clue. For many of us in industrialized countries Thanksgiving isn’t the only day of plenty. We tend to live in abundance all year round, so much so that it is difficult to remember to be grateful on this or any other day. So let’s begin there, with gratitude.

  • Everyday Green: Water, water, everywhere?

    Surely we have abundant water? According to U.S Government estimates, the Great Lakes are shrinking, especially Lake Superior, Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. Although Lakes Erie and Ontario received good rainfalls in recent years, reservoirs in the Catskills, providing water to NYC, have fallen to record lows. The government projects that 36 states will face water shortages within the next five years.

  • EVeryday Green: The not-so-big house

    Having spent most of my life in houses of less than a 1000 square feet, I’ve often fantasized about living in a larger space. There are those folks who have gone the opposite direction, living in very small houses, some as tiny as 140 square feet. I realize those of you who live in apartments or trailers are thinking even 1000 square feet could seem like a castle. What can we learn from these small home dwellers?