I got a phone call from an exasperated spouse yesterday afternoon. “We’re waiting in line to recycle. It’s a total mess!” she complained. Turns out she wasn’t the only one. About three times the expected crowd turned out with their electronics devices and other hazardous wastes for the annual municipal pickup at Carter Baron Amphitheater [...]
If you stopped reading National Geographic in grade school you missed the magazine’s turn toward a more issue-oriented publication. This month (October) the Geographic takes on the rush to produce biofuels with the subtitle “The Wrong Way, The Right Way.” Guess which column the magazine puts corn ethanol in? “Biofuels as currently rendered in the [...]
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Last night I paid a visit to our friends Keith and Janice who, for almost the last month, have been taking care of our guinea pig, Shadow. The pig was in the pink of health, and Keith ever so thoughtfully had purchased a big bag of Timothy hay. But not just any kind of hay. [...]
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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