Wine, one of my favorite topics
Yesterday, I went to the Home Economist Market, a “health & specialty foods” grocery store here in Charlotte, in an attempt to explore what kind of environmentally friendly food options were out there. Inside, there was a nice woman giving out samples of wine and saki (score!) and giving customers [...]
Holy crap, can someone PLEASE send me $29 million?
Typically, the bigger a home gets, the more stress it puts on our environment. With increasing size comes increasing energy expenditure, increasing natural resource consumption, increasing land use, increasing waste, etc. Unfortunately, it’s just an inherent result of building big.
With Acqua Liana, however, real estate designer/developer Frank [...]
I will eventually be adding links to my blogroll, but I wasn’t going to start until I had a chance to really explore every corner of the Internet and identify what I believed to be the very best blogs or websites, and sort out all the crap I so often find out there. However, a [...]
The results are in. I got my Duke Energy bill two days ago and I can now see how Phase I of Project Get Off the Grid has affected my energy use and, consequently, my monthly energy bill.
Here’s a quick summary of the plan for those who haven’t read earlier posts about Project Get Off [...]
Featured Article on Household Energy Use
I just got the March 2009 issue of National Geographic in the mail.
Side note: Yes, I know we’re supposed to be cutting down on our magazine and catalogue subscriptions, which I’m working on and will discuss in a later post, but National Geographic is one of the few subscriptions that [...]
