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Postings
- The Grass is Always Greener, Part I
- I think I died two Aprils ago
- Stress Level, Small Business Owner
- Cancer isn’t mine
- For the Love of Coffee
- Living my Dream as a Small Business Owner
- Born Again
- My hands hurt with anger
- Life’s too short; Thank you, cancer
- The Fear of Death
- It Takes A Village
- Hearing Lung Cancer
- Tears for Strangers
- Cancer Free
- Guest Post: Sorting Through Cancer Information – What Should You Believe?
- Benefits of Cancer: Lowering Inhibitions
- Ode to Motherhood
- Guest Post: A letter from my mom
- Wine, Coffee, and Listerine
- Hope: Scanning Fear and Cancer Treatment
- It’s not my fault but I feel guilty
- Three Miles to Chemotherapy
- What Causes Cancer? (I’m not professing to know)
- Disassociating Nausea, an Exercise in Chemotherapy
- What is chemotherapy like?
- Love and Beauty in the Peace Corps, Burkina Faso
- Good Cancer, Fragile Life
- Why did I get cancer?
- I am a Dreamer
- Dear Cancer, I Hate You
- Running Life, Cancer and Chemo
- Kancer Karma
- Chemotherapy Fatigue
- Cancer doesn’t happen to me
- On my third day of chemo my body said to me …
- Transitioning Lenses–Final Moments until Chemotherapy
- Facing Chemotherapy
- Discovering Cancer
- The Plastic Salad–Reducing Packaging Insanity
- Go Box and Laura Weiss–Sustainability in the Food Industry
- Environmental & Other Considerations of Telecommuting
- Hardware Reduction vs Planned Obsolescence
- Parental Instinct vs Consumerism: Balancing Baby Stuff
- Save Money by Saving the Environment
- Killing Paper with the Digital Age–Pomp, Circumstance, and Something Else
- Sustainable Coffee, So Many Options but One
- Redistributing Public Transportation and the Fallacy of the Free Market
- Compost’s Call to All Engineers
- Black Friday, and Every Other Day of the Year
- Stop Using Ziploc bags and Start Exploring the Alternatives
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Tag Archives: savings
Go Box and Laura Weiss–Sustainability in the Food Industry
I admire Laura Weiss, the Portlander, businesswoman, and founder of Go Box, an environmental venture and adventure that addresses key components of sustainability in the food industry. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Laura, who started Go Box … Continue reading
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Tagged dining, economy, finance, food, food industry, Go box, money, savings, sustainability
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Parental Instinct vs Consumerism: Balancing Baby Stuff
Things, goods, possessions, treasures, crap—call it what you may—the stuff parents purchase throughout a child’s infancy, youth, and even adulthood can accumulate. Some stuff might live a life of extensive use to the point that it clearly exhibits substantial wear-and-tear … Continue reading
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Tagged baby stuff, consumerism, cost, purchasing, savings, secondhand, sustainability, used
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Save Money by Saving the Environment
How can I be green? Often the simplest of solutions meets the mantra of “less is more”. The less you buy the more you will save both financially and environmentally. This mantra is not an easy sell, particularly in the … Continue reading
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Tagged cash, dollars, environmental benefit, environmental greenness, financial savings, money, savings
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