Category Archives: Environment

Thoreau wrote in Walden, “A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”  He probably would have felt the same way looking at this beautiful picture from space.

http://planetary.org/blog/article/00003141/

Thoreau tells us, “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

Robyn Griggs Lawrence expands on this idea in her book Simply Imperfect: Revisiting the Wabi-Sabi House.  Read an excerpt titled, “How to See,” at Mother Earth News.

This from Mother Earth News:  In the United States, the average person uses about 40 gallons of water per day to bathe, wash dishes and clean clothes. Unfortunately, this water almost always goes straight down the drain. But this “greywater” could be put to good use…  Read more:   http://www.motherearthnews.com/green-homes/greywater-zm0z11zphe.aspx#ixzz1T8H4ioc5