Just over a year ago, after heeding the sage advice of the great American novel “1,000 Places to See Before You Die”, my brother and I found ourselves high in the mountains of central Mexico, hiking through an ancient pine forest on the outskirts of a town called Angangueo, population just over 10,000. The town is [...]
Evolve’s Sleek, Low-Flow Shower-heads
In Phase III of Project Get Off the Grid (for those who haven’t been reading previous posts on Project Get Off the Grid, click here to catch up), I haven’t made many changes. Differing variables in the 2008 and 2009 periods of Phase II, namely a ten-day trip to Mexico in 2008, [...]
My plastic experiment has finally come to an end. For those who haven’t read earlier Purging Plastic posts, here’s a quick recap. I spent ten days (was originally going to be two weeks, until plastic debris started consuming my kitchen) going about my regular routine and saving any plastic I went through, hoping to get [...]