Comments Library Lady has made

  • laughable errors

    I read the list of things a person can do to slow global warming...I agreed with some of it, but they really need to do some fact-checking: in the piece about line-drying clothes, they wrote about organic cotton sheared from sheep raised on Whole Foods. Was I the only one who picked up on that? Cotton comes from plants! Wool comes from sheep!

    Nature will always win, one way or another. The question is, how will it affect us? Think about it.

    On Lots o' good stuff therein posted 2 years, 7 months ago 12 Responses

  • Urban Sprawl

    Another problem is that a great deal of arable land is being paved over for housing tracts, strip malls, etc. Here in Southern California, I have watched a great deal of what used to be farmland be destroyed by development.

    Nature will always win, one way or another. The question is, how will it affect us? Think about it.

    On Food imports may force new food policies posted 3 years, 9 months ago 7 Responses

  • Small Town Life

    I live in the small town of Perris in Southern California (18 miles from Riverside and 70 miles from LA). This town has an increasing problem with urban sprawl, which I have been informed I have to accept (I don't, as acceptance is tantamount to approval), and I am always campaigning and complaining about it. However, I live in the oldest housing development in this town (built in 1960 to house the teachers at the new high school, which I graduated from in 1994 and now work for as a library clerk)--and this neighborhood has plentiful space in its yards, combined with smallish houses. There are kids playing outside year round, and I know many of my neighbors. There is a small shopping center two blocks from my house, plus a Mexican market another block away from that. I live only three miles from my work, so I don't have to drive far, and the area across the streets from the high school contains a dozen restaurants, two supermarkets, a Big Lots with wonderful prices, and a clothing shop that appeals to me. I don't do any any extra driving to go to the market--I either walk over from work or walk from home to one of the local businesses. There is a great hiking area around the block from my house, so I don't even have to drive to that. There's even a wonderful little mom and pop pharmacy within walking distance and along my route home from work. More people should walk here, but many people think it's too hard (the frequent whine of kids sent back to class for not having a pass), or they are addicted to their cars. Oh, yes, and I want my next car to be a Prius--just like my landlady's.

    Nature will always win, one way or another. The question is, how will it affect us? Think about it.

    On Only concrete alternatives will cajole people out of the suburbs posted 3 years, 9 months ago 4 Responses