The Japanese art of Furoshiki–a way of making packages with a reusable cloth. Via No Tech Magazine.
Zero waste shopping in Japan with Furoshiki: http://www.notechmagazine.com/2014/04/furoshiki-zero-waste-shopping-in-japan.html …
A solar powered grain grinder: http://www.notechmagazine.com/2014/04/solar-powered-grain-mill.html …
Bee Friendly Gardening In The Pacific Northwest http://www.nwedible.com/2014/04/bee-friendly-gardening.html …
Nesting for a baby with a small (carbon) footprint http://wp.me/p2SaWz-us
GR takes on shade gardening: Full sun to part shade. Really? | Garden Rant http://gardenrant.com/2014/03/full-sun-to-part-shade-really.html …
How To Make and Freeze Guacamole http://www.nwedible.com/2014/03/make-freeze-guacamole.html …
Sleek Angle On a Community Garden Shed http://lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/2014/03/sleek-angle-on-community-garden-shed.html#.UzuV0Idkuj0.twitter …
Pop-Up Plaza Enhances Art Walk, Hints at What Could Be in Leimert http://la.streetsblog.org/2014/04/01/pop-up-plaza-enhances-art-walk-hints-at-what-could-be-in-leimert/#.UzuT7Zz9t1A.twitter …
The terminal stage of oil addiction: http://www.thenation.com/article/179113/we-are-now-terminal-stage-our-fossil-fuel-addiction …
Opting Out: An Introduction – Pacific Standard: The Science of Society http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/opting-introduction-77049/#.Uzs9IwgcJoo.twitter …
How to host a star party: https://sites.google.com/site/aancsite/articles/host-a-starparty …
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The woman putting her newborn in a cardboard box is certainly cancelling out the organic materials she used to cover it. It may be cheap to put in place, but I would never put a newborn in a corrugated cardboard box thinking it was safe, just cheap. I wonder what the glue and disintegrating cardboard does for the baby’s lungs.
I don’t consider having the baby’s bed jammed up against the mother’s bed as co-sleeping. If that is the case, I co-slept with all three of mine because the used bassinet I had for all three was definitely within reach, placed where it touched my bed.
When our oldest was born, we were very young and didn’t have a lot of money, living in a tiny apartment which wouldn’t fit a crib. Out of necessity, we used a large (new) laundry basket for his crib the first two months until we were able to move somewhere a little bigger. It’s kind of charming to look back on the photos we have of that time.