Victory Gardens Instead of Lawns

It wouldn’t take much to get used to having no lawn, if you could pick some homegrown veggies and sit in the shade and eat them. You’d rinse them in the Koi pond first, maybe. I’ve been thinking about re-landscaping my back yard, a meditation garden is good, but having some snacks on the vine sitting around too would be even better.

Food is junk in America nowadays. So how to survive in the future? Maybe we could all grow a lot of our own food, and join local co-ops for other staples. I bet we’d start looking more healthy.

Raising Baby Green

here’s a video of some friends of mine, talking on Fox News about raising your baby on organic foods:

Google Docs Down Today

When Google Docs goes down, that’s the end of the workflow.

Digital Nomads Are Changing the World

Wireless communication is changing the way people work, live, love and relate to places - and each other, says The Economist in one of its Special Reports last week called Nomads at last.

We are all becoming digital nomads, says the report’s author, Economist correspondent Andreas Kluth (20-minute mp3 interview with him here), who explains that this is not your grandfather’s telecommuting, because no one is tied to the home office - or any place special for that matter.

Read on for highlights and lively stories from the report

Arctic Ice Shrinking

NASA yesterday presented its findings that the Arctic ice has been shrinking for four years in a row. The arctic experienced its warmest summer in 400 years this year. At this rate, the vast ice fields that serve to cool the entire planet’s climate will be completely gone well before the end of this century.