Don’t forget that the Diva Cup will change your life.
March 28, 2013
You might recall that long ago I got myself one of these. It continues to be fantastic. Others agree!
FRACK!
May 8, 2012
Okay, sorry, but I’m going to use this blog as a parking spot for a bunch of articles on fracking I really should read but I haven’t gotten to yet. That way, when Pennsylvania has no more state parks and no clean water and the kids here all fail out of fake cyber high schools and go on to private prisons instead of public colleges, I can say, “I KNEW IT! I called that sh** on my blog AGES ago. Thanks Corbett!”
I’m really going to read every one of these articles this summer. I swear.
Also, the chemicals could be moving faster than we think.
More as I find them. In the meantime, go donate to Clean Water Action.
In case you missed my first 100 posts
February 4, 2012
This ought to catch you up to speed.
Blog rises from the dead only to post another wonky article
January 22, 2012
But it’s a great one!
Saw this article over at Grist and thought it would be a perfect Lesson 5 in our quest to understand how to go about fixing the climate crisis. All the suggested approaches are ideas that are new to me–and I also appreciate the explanation of some of the different sources of warming.
We’re back, baby! (And our teeth are pretty clean.)
September 24, 2010
Oh, the stories I could tell about the last two months! (Has it really only been two months?–it feels like two years!) Suffice it to say that working full time is a whole ‘nother ball game from a part time gig (not surprisingly) and I’m not sure how often I’ll be able to grab a minute to post. Especially because I like to have ample time to reread things obsessively before I post them. So I just tend to get paralyzed into doing nothing when I can only grab 20 minutes here and there.
But I will try to get over that because posting SOMETHING is better than NOTHING. I mean, I can convey useful information quickly, if somewhat less wittily and/or profoundly, right?
Here goes…
You might recall that I’ve had a few ups and downs in my quest to say goodbye to commercial toothpaste permanently. But I’m happy to say that I have finally settled on a recipe I like and that the interwebs have convinced me is extremely effective.
Here are the directions for making it. Although you don’t need to look at them really–just mix food grade coconut oil and baking soda together until they make a paste. I added the peppermint oil for flavor. But skipped the sweetener because I have PTSD from my ill-fated first try at it. (Although I did find the pure stevia at Whole Foods–it was in the stupid health supplement section all along. Dur.)
Anyway, it’s working quite nicely! It’s kind of luxurious, even.
(And just as an aside that to me sort of reflects how bizarrely our commercially-programmed minds work when it comes to what is accepted and what isn’t…a friend of a friend heard that I was thinking of putting stevia in my toothpaste and wanted to be sure I knew that there are some studies that show it can interfere with thyroid function. Now, I totally appreciate the heads up, since I have a wonky thyroid, but why is it that a friend of a friend would warn me about trace amounts of stevia in my mouth and its theoretical possible effect on my thyroid but not warn me about, you know, toothpaste, which is basically made out of a number of actually poisonous ingredients?)
