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Love the hot shower, hate the waste.

Sometimes saving the environment seems like an exercise in denial: don’t buy things, don’t take planes, don’t use your car.  Now personally, I think saving the world might be worth a teensy sacrifice, but it is lovely when saving resources also adds a little more comfort to your life.  
How long before you want to [...]

Learning is fun, and Dolphins don’t need to be fireproof!

Once again I am teaching through Palo Alto Adult School.  I really love spreading the word about the many healthy furnishings and finish options now exist, but worry I will not get enough folks enrolled to run the class.  
I feel so passionatly that everyone who might even buy a storage cabinet at Ikea, or [...]

Does Size Matter?

 
I am encouraged that we seem to be having a backlash against huge homes. I don’t want to bash them, but they make me sad for so many reasons:
* Most importantly I do not think giant homes function well as a places that make the folks living in them happy and comfortable. If, [...]