http://anniegreenjeans.com green business transitions, sustainable lifestyle Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:57:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Permaculture – hooray! Max & Maria the Permaculturists - visited the garden yesterday…and what a great inspiring download! He loves my metal roof, thinks I can get all the water I need for a whole dry season from it with t he right storage…and the west side of the house is ... http://anniegreenjeans.com/permaculture-hooray/ So - the last few years it has been hard to maintain my weight...anyone else got this problem? I drive to work, sit at a computer most of the day, then drive home - stopping at the store for a bag of lettuce and squash that came from...where? Turns out ... http://anniegreenjeans.com/lets-plant-a-garden-and-lose-weight/ My lovely house needs a lot of garden work – the raised beds have little soil in them, the yard is filled with weedy grass and “stick tights” catch your shoes… I am putting down cardboard on every place I can to kill the weeds – and since I just moved ... http://anniegreenjeans.com/permaculture-i-hope/ Today I started a rag bag in my “old house)….yep – it was time…things were out of hand – pretty good dish towels were being used for painting rags, washing the floor – everyone – the cleaning lady, my fab guy, myself – were ignoring the rules for frugality ... http://anniegreenjeans.com/the-rag-bag-2/ CAR SHARE – YEAH BABY!!! Wow – a just in time response from my great friends – Lanny and Karina – got me into a working vehicle - an old Dodge Caravan - which just now carried me 80 miles so that I could play “Nana” tomorrow … Ok, the full ... http://anniegreenjeans.com/car-share-%e2%80%93-yeah-baby/ Let’s talk about diesel…and biodiesel, and specifically about my diesel Jetta…a lovely car – although she is black, and lately these hot summer days are crazy with black seat leather and light skirts - but, lets talk about the CAR… I flew to Boston to buy this car in October of ... http://anniegreenjeans.com/biodiesel-jetta-gotta-love-her/ Hey - I just bought a house near down town Willits - never mind that it is a cool house that I am exctied to fix up and be in....never mind that I have to downsize my closets ( yes, yes - a good thing, Iv'e heard from almost everyone) The ... http://anniegreenjeans.com/walkable-communities/ Recently my great friend - Diane Darling - had a barbeque and invited everyone to bring their own food serving plates and utensils. Imagine – resting under a shady tree in a fragrant garden, you are eating yummy home cooked food – served on a real plate, eaten with a ... http://anniegreenjeans.com/pack-a-plate-reduce-landfills/ Did I dare title this article - "let's talk shit?"...no! Because we cannot talk about his sensitive topic in polite company...in fact, we cannot pretend that we even have such stuff in our lives, so we flush it away using gallons of ever-more-precious clean water...drinking quality water we have spent ... http://anniegreenjeans.com/talking-toilets/ Yep - you read it right....I am asking - what is really and truly Green? Well, the answer as I see it - is - everything is relative...yep, ok , seems like an easy out to say this. But, after years of living Green, doing my own "Green thing" - ... http://anniegreenjeans.com/greener-than-thou-lets-talk-stuff-lets-talk-trash/