September 2007 - Posts

• Going, going...

  I've been thinking a lot lately about canning. Not just canning, but food preservation in general. It's hard to imagine as September winds down, with the plethora of local foods available right now, that soon the harvest will be over, the farmers'... Posted Sep 28 2007, 03:46 PM by AN URBAN SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT

• Walk for Farm Animals

  From the Farm Sanctuary website : "In an ideal world, there would be no need for Farm Sanctuary. There would be no factory farms or stockyards , and cows, pigs, chickens, and other farm animals would not be abused. They would be free to laze in the... Posted Sep 22 2007, 07:00 PM by AN URBAN SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT

• Eight Eyes an Hour

  We had quite a productive morning hike out at Mendon Ponds earlier today. In quite a short period of time and a over only a short stretch of trail, we spotted quite the abundance of little critters. We found and identified no less than three different... Posted Sep 22 2007, 01:36 PM by AN URBAN SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT

• Thailand is local, isn't it?

  As if its not obvious, this blog is a documentation of our attempt to live in a more sustainable way. So the honest thing to do for ourselves and our four readers is to share our successes as well as our failures. Well, this is a post about one of those... Posted Sep 19 2007, 07:49 PM by AN URBAN SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT

• An Inevitable Post.

  This picture is property of City Newspaper and was borrowed because we have no pictures of wind turbines. Please do not sue us, we have a house to save for. Perhaps I'm just ignorant. Perhaps I'm just arrogant. But every once in a while, there's... Posted Sep 13 2007, 03:36 PM by AN URBAN SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT

• Three rooms down...

  It was quite a while before the inception of this blog that we bought our first compact fluorescent light bulbs. We bought just a few of them for the living room. Since then, we've put off buying more for one reason or the other. This past weekend... Posted Sep 10 2007, 07:56 PM by AN URBAN SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT

• A Quick One.

  While the boys are napping, I have a few moments to post a couple points of interest. First of all, our blog has been featured as the Environmental Site of the Month by RochesterEnvironment.com. For anyone unaware, this site serves as a veritable encyclopedia... Posted Sep 06 2007, 02:03 PM by AN URBAN SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT

• Challenge?

  September is local foods month. I don't know who ever decided on that, but does it really matter? I mean sure, every day is Earth day, and every month could be local foods month. After all, the benefits of eating locally to the environment, our health... Posted Sep 04 2007, 04:27 PM by AN URBAN SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT