Category Archives: sustainability

interview at the haystack needle

jen at the haystack needle just posted a little q&a with me for her green swap series. jen’s blog is one of my favorite daily reads, so i was more than happy to share a few thoughts with her on simple ways that we can live a little greener. throughout the month of april, the [...]
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the love of glass jars

recently, my mom and my aunt had a shared revelation: they both suffer from (but mostly celebrate) The Love of Glass Jars–the insatiable need to buy, scrub clean, and save any neat glass containers that they find. as their collections build, the jars are repurposed to store food, buttons, art supplies, and collections of all [...]
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on community sustained agriculture

voila! my latest bushel of veggies from my local community sustained agriculture (CSA) program: the south central farmer’s coop. a rough explanation of a CSA: it supports local agriculture by organizing people to “invest” directly in a farm–and in return for your share, you receive a regular assortment of seasonal, local farm fresh goods. encouraged [...]
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tikkun olam

tikkun olam | repair the world this keeps coming up in my world in the past few weeks: work, news, movies. one of the best things about judaism is called tikkun olam. it’s the idea that the world has been broken in pieces, and it’s up to us to gather them and put them back [...]
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in the city: silverlake salvage

a new-to-me LA discovery is silverlake salavage where i found an incredible collection of everything and the kitchen sink–old cabinets, tables and chairs, moldings, hardware, windows and doors, tubs, and on and on. the place is HUGE, and the collection endless and constantly changing. i didn’t come home with anything on my first visit (a [...]
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