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73Permaculture Techniques Create Sustainable Gardens
Permaculture is a term coined in the mid 1970s to describe a landscape designed to provide sustainable environments suitable for providing humans with food, fiber, energy and habitat. Permaculture...
1 comment58The Sustainable House
Many people don't realize how beneficial it is to transform their homes into green homes. Green houses are extremely cost-effective over the lifetime of the home's operation. While the upfront costs may...
1 comment54Hope for the Planet
Thankful, Mindful, Hopeful: Be a Light in the Dark of Winter The winter holidays are upon us - that's quite a turn of phrase, isn't it; sort of like being set upon by something voracious and dangerous and...
2 comments54Green Grandma Plays in the Leaves
I love autumn here in this northern clime. Heck, I even like the word 'autumn' - it has a slightly archaeic spelling that calls to mind the polyglot, ancient roots of the English language, and reminds me...
0 comments47Green Grandma Economics
Political journalist Thomas Friedman was recently interviewed on WCCO-TV by esteemed Minnesota reporter Don Shelby. Friedman's text was a green economy. He points out that responding to climate change can actually be good for business as well as...
0 comments45From One Green Grandma to Many
A friend - a businessman who is devoted to educating disadvantaged children, who contributes his own money and time out of his life to get them into good schools and change policies that keep them in poor...
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57The Green Grandma Speaks
It’s time we added a noodge to the conversation on environmental sustainability. As a Baby Boomer, I am tired of all the global climate change naysayers, who insist there’s no problem with global warming,...
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