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HOPEFUL NOTES FROM NEIGHBORHOOD WALKS (+ NEIGHBORLY RESOURCES)

  m o r e (taking note of the neighborhood) I've said before that if I don't take a walk pretty much every day, I feel bleh. Often, I take two, as breaks from work, as chances to move and...

Posted by Danielle on April 21, 2010 9:58 AM

SPRING IS HERE!

  m o r e (spring goings on) I am so glad it's spring. Because spring means planting, it means hope, it means more time outside, it means renewal.    Here's how it showed up outside my apartment door: The...

Posted by Danielle on March 23, 2010 10:03 AM

TINY LIVING, TINY HOUSES

  m o r e (living small) With our booming world population and the not so booming state of our economy, not to mention our air, land, and water, big is definitely no longer better. I can't remember where I...

Posted by Danielle on March 1, 2010 8:20 AM

WABI SABI DESIGN

  m o r e (nature inspired inside) I read an interesting book last weekend, Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence. I picked it up at the library because I've interviewed an eco-jewelry designer who is guided by the...

Posted by Danielle on February 26, 2010 9:18 AM

WORDS OF THE WEEK: SLOWING DOWN, LOOKING AROUND

  These two quotes seem to be loosely connected, at least in my mind. I was reminded of the first recently; in fact, I'm almost always reminded of the first by daily life. And the second I read in a...

Posted by Danielle on February 22, 2010 9:21 AM

TOKYO STORY + TAKING IT ONE THING AT A TIME

  m o r e (unitasking) When my husband and I recently watched Ozu's Tokyo Story, we were struck by the slowness, the deliberateness of pretty much every movement the parents in the film make. They meditatively walk, eat, sip,...

Posted by Danielle on February 18, 2010 8:42 AM

WHERE TO DONATE BOOKS

  m o r e (new nooks for good books) With the advent of e-books and Kindles and now, the ipad, people are ditching paper books. I'm not, but some people are. I can tell I'm going to be a...

Posted by Danielle on February 11, 2010 8:47 AM

SITES ON SHARING

  Wrote a roundup of sites that help you share today at Your Daily Thread. And am sharing it with you: "As they say, when the times get tough, the tough get...sharing. That's right. One positive side effect of this...

Posted by Danielle on February 9, 2010 9:46 AM

TAKING OUT THE TRASH

  m o r e (waste less, want less) I was intrigued when I heard about the Garbage Museum in Connecticut. Complete with a huge but playful Trash-o-saurus made from 2,000 pounds of trash, the amount attritubuted to each person...

Posted by Danielle on February 8, 2010 9:04 AM

SIMPLE, FRUGAL LIVING = BETTER LIVING IN HARD TIMES

  m o r e (less) People are still struggling in this long economic recession. I have heard it said that one in eight Americans is food insecure, for example. There's pretty much no upside to that. But if you're...

Posted by Danielle on January 26, 2010 8:35 AM

SLOW MONEY

  m o r e (mindful money) I've written here about slow fashion,  slow food, and slow communities, so why not slow money? Our financial system has already shrunk down with the recent economic meltdown, (something I'm not qualified to...

Posted by Danielle on January 18, 2010 9:31 AM

SIMPLER LIVING TECH TIP: SEPARATING EMAIL ACCOUNTS

  m o r e (email sanity) Maybe you're way ahead of me on this, but I took a step last week to decrease email bombardment and increase sanity and simplicity. I've already taken great strides to combat my email...

Posted by Danielle on January 11, 2010 9:45 AM

LIM(B) PROJECT #22: KEEPSAKE BOX

  m o r e (keeping only the best keepsakes, not the clutter) As I wrote in "Saying Goodbye to Stuff" for the Simple Living Network Newsletter, I gave away or sold or recycled a lot of stuff during my...

Posted by Danielle on January 8, 2010 8:20 AM

HEIRLOOM DESIGN

  m o r e (stuff that lasts 100 years) Saul Griffith (inventor and founder of the DIY site, instructables) is a well-known proponent of heirloom design. What's that? It's stuff that's designed to last long enough that it could be passed...

Posted by Danielle on January 6, 2010 11:33 AM

LOOKING BACKWARD AND FORWARD

  I thought I'd look back at simple, green lifestyle practices I've adopted in the last year and the things I'm excited about in that realm and the realm of this blog as I look to the future. To that...

Posted by Danielle on January 5, 2010 8:20 AM

SLOWING DOWN AND SAVORING THE SEASON

  m o r e (slow holidays) As my last post before 2010, I wanted to share with you some resources for slowing down and savoring this season. Here's my article from Your Daily Thread on that topic: "Have Yourself...

Posted by Danielle on December 23, 2009 9:02 AM

HAPPY TO SHARE THAT I'M ON SHAREABLE

  I'm delighted to have contributed an article to Shareable.net today. The site is DIY meets green meets the commons and common sense. I think it's reporting on unique and exciting stuff happening in the world. And yes, it's all about...

Posted by Danielle on December 9, 2009 12:51 PM

TERRA MADRE DAY: SET ASIDE DECEMBER 10 FOR LOCAL FOOD

  m o r e (serving up local) Leave it to Slow Food to organize a day for getting together and enjoying local foods together, with relish. This Wednesday, December 10 is Terra Madre day to celebrate mother earth and her...

Posted by Danielle on December 8, 2009 8:13 AM

ONE SQUARE INCH OF SILENCE

  m o r e (silent places) I heard about the square inch of silence a long time ago but have neglected to write about it until now. Perhaps it's the inner and outer noise the holidays can produce that...

Posted by Danielle on December 7, 2009 9:58 AM

QUESTIONS OF CONSUMPTION

  m o r e (mindful buying) With Black Friday just around the corner, the holiday shopping season will have officially arrived (albeit with this economy, one can't be sure how robust it will be). So while I'm not against...

Posted by Danielle on November 25, 2009 9:14 AM