Written By Nate. In Arizona, Daily Life, Energy, Flagstaff, Recycling, Renewable Energy, Self-sufficiency, Sustainability, Sustainable living

I caught an interesting program on The Science Channel the other day while I was at work, called Invention Nation. The show profiles some pretty cool inventions and developments in the green movement while the three hosts take a veggie-fueled trip across the country to get an up-close look at each one. While

Written By Nate. In Authors, Books, Daily Life, Food

Who knew a book investigating what exactly goes into each and every one of our meals would end up a best seller, illustrating the apparently mainstream idea that a lot of what we eat isn’t good for us. I’m talking about Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. His book investigated what goes into each

Written By Nate. In Arizona, Flagstaff, Gardening, Nature, Random, Self-sufficiency, Sustainability, Sustainable living

I just wanted to take a minute to plug one of my favorite places to visit in Flagstaff, The Arboretum. They have more than 2,500 different species of plants that grow great here in the high altitude of northern Arizona and they have great collections of the native plants that grow here on

Written By Nate. In Alcohol, Food, Random, Wine

 
When we ran to Sam’s Club the other day we perused the wine selection like we always do. We’ll typically pick up a bottle or two to enjoy over the next couple of weeks. One half bottle practically jumped off the shelf at us. The frosted black bottle of German Eiswein Nachtgold

Written By Nate. In Alcohol, Cooking, Food, Homemade, Liqueur, Recipes, Recomendations

I had some fun today and put together a quick mini-movie to enter in El Polo Loco’s latest contest promoting their fresh, citrus marinated, flame-grilled chicken. The idea is that it’s a lot of work to get the same flame-grilled, citrus taste yourself and the results might not be so wonderful. I tried

Written By Nate. In Daily Life, Energy, Gas & Oil, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Sustainable living, Transportation

I was over cruising through one of my favorite blogs, Inhabitat, and read this interesting piece on the Masdar Initiative. It’s a new “city” being designed from the ground up by Norman Foster which aims to be completely carbon neutral, car-free and zero waste. Masdar City will be built in Abu Dhabi and

Written By Nate. In Daily Life, Food, Gifts, Holidays, Homemade, Sustainability, Sustainable living

So we’re just days away from another one of those fantastic consumer holidays, Valentine’s Day.  It’s always been a hard day for me to digest.  You’re an absolute schmuck if you don’t subscribe to the Valentine’s Day practice of getting your honey something special.  But at the same time, I hate feeling like I’m bowing