Yesterday we broke out the in-line skates for the first time this year. Some local green organizations were having a little Earth Day celebration in Goodale Park and we decided it might be interesting to visit, and it only seemed appropriate to leave our gas-driven transportation at home. The weather was beautiful: 70 degrees, sunny, blue skies, the works.
On the way back home (round trip of about 5 miles), we skated along the Scioto River which flanks downtown Columbus.
Maybe I’m just spoiled, growing up in Washington state, but aren’t rivers supposed to be blue, or clear, or green…not brown?
Wasabi.
&
Potatoes.
Thanks to Shamela for the idea, which is simple enough: boil potatoes, mash, add wasabi to taste. (I also added a splash of olive oil, salt, pepper, and a little milk.) This would adapt very easily into a twice-baked version as well.
The internet can be a great form of communication from a business to its customer. As such, there are a few basic things that any business should post on their company website. Among the essentials are: “Store Locators/Directions” and “Hours of Operation”. Within the second category, there is absolutely no reason that a business should not post the fact that they will be closed on any given holiday. Your customer, who in this case decided to brave the cold weather outside to go exercise at the gym, will be very irked indeed when he arrives only to find that the gym is closed on Easter – especially after he specifically checked the web site before leaving to see if it was open. Grr…
If “April Showers” bring “May Flowers”…pray tell, what do “April Snow Flurries” bring?
Recycled paper sources aren’t always the solution (paper fibers lose strength every time they are recycled), but there are a few paper products that have little reason to be manufactured out of virgin wood: facial tissue, toilet paper, and paper towels. Think about it. In each case the paper has a single use, is going to be discarded immediately, and will not end up in a recycle bin.
Based on the fact that Kimberly-Clark, which is the parent company behind Kleenex brand tissues, uses 100% virgin wood for their products, I recently made a conscious switch to more eco-friendly choices.
(see www.Kleercut.net for more information)
I’m still looking for a good replacement for toilet paper made from 100% recycled paper (as the quality and texture have been sub-par in the brands I have sampled so far), but I am very happy about my switch to eco-friendlier tissues and paper towels (Seventh Generation brand, as it happens).
