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  • Another great web resource

    You Grow Girl is another great site (not just for girls) I refer to all the time for my own two urban gardens. They have a ton of DIY ideas for identifying and managing pests, as well as maintaining healthy garden ecology. On Umbra on fighting pests with pests posted 2 years, 6 months ago 12 Responses

  • Nope. Sorry

    Sorry Nat: This is 100% not the case. "Seals are killed just as humanely than any other wild harvest animals."


    These are mammals, killed by the hundreds of thousands each year for their fur. For fashion. In the most cruel way (clubbed with a hakipik (a hooked club) - or shot (which also means wounded and lost in the water). It is a difficult hunt to document completely because of the remote areas where the hunt occurs. Also, the Deparment of Fisheries of Ocean is not a unbiased source of information on the commerical seal hunt, given it has the conflicting mandate of promoting and expanding the sealing industry in addition to management of the seal populations. Before it came to light this last week that hundreds of thousands of seal pups already died in the Gulf of St. Lawerence this year, Kevin Singer of the Fisheries agency said "the seal herd is and remains healthy and abundant."

    On Drown and Out posted 2 years, 8 months ago 7 Responses

  • Storytelling: Al Gore's Polar Bear; Baby Seal Hunt

    I agree with the idea of getting local. I would also add that telling the global climate change stories that people can imagine and connect with in their mind's eye will go long way towards leveraging social change. Al Gore's Polar Bear, Canada's Baby Seal Hunt after thousands drown from melting ice--these are the compelling global stories to help move people to act in their daily lives.

    Girl on Foot: A regular gal soul-searching the modern day car-free commute.

    On It's the wrong lever for creating social change posted 2 years, 8 months ago 11 Responses

  • Buckets full of yummy goodness

    I've grown four urban gardens in two cities, including one entirely in rows of five gallon buckets on my roof. There is nothing like climbing through your roommate's bedroom window to the roof to snag a fresh salad and tomatoes for made-from-scratch pasta sauce.

    Another great resource for urban gardening on the cheap (for dudes and women and everyone in between):  www.yougrowgirl.comOn Now's the time to discover the myriad pleasures of growing food posted 2 years, 8 months ago 4 Responses

  • Girl gets period, saves world

    First, thanks Umbra, for bringing up the issue. (I love my keeper! Have for years. So much less fuss and waste.)

    Also, I would contend that, like our daily food choices, this stuff figures heavily into women's (and arguably, men's) lives. So, while I get JMG's point that the life-cycle discussion inevitably dead-ends, I disagree that this is one dialogue "taking away from larger issues."

    The more connected we can get to conservation principles in the things we care most about, or in the things we come into contact with daily (sushi, bed sheets, backyard gardens, beer, menstrual cycles, our commute, whathaveyou), the better.

    Because, in the end, all those "little" things add up to a mindset that's more open to and mindful of the "larger issues."

    A woman who bothers to care about paper vs. plastic, tampon vs. pad, seems like just the kind of woman that will actually listen when you suggest that she give up her car, run for office on a green ticket and single-handedly bring industrial agribusiness to its knees.

    Just a thought.
    On Umbra on that time of the month, again posted 2 years, 10 months ago 19 Responses