Last login: 4 weeks agoBalogh is a married guy from Syracuse, New York, USA.
A thirty something environmental blogger at groovygreen.com and baloghblog.blogspot.com. Heading back to school for a master's degree in environmental policy.
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Very wild. My wife went to school at Niagara, where the whole school is under huge power lines from NIagara Falls. I've always wondered about that place...
From the page: "I think that Joel Satalin can add another chapter to his book Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal after reading this story. I mean, really, a child's veggie stand shut down for lack of permits? What's next, no lemonade stands or car wash fundraisers?"
The solution to litter reduction and the addition of water, sports drinks and tea to the deposit law. Should the deposit on bottles be raised to a quarter?
From the page: "As promised, this post will list a number of minor changes that have added up to significant savings in electricity usage at our house. I didn't track how much each of these amounted to individually, and some are probably pretty small, but they really do add up."
From the page: "So why have we chosen to leave all that was familiar and comfortable? In the past few years, dad and I began to worry about the nature of this country. We began to worry about the decline of energy and the lack of local food. We understood that everything that we used or did had oil in the equation. Our experiments within the confines of the city were great â€" we learned how to can, we learned to garden, we made butter, and ground wheat into flour. "
From the page: "One podcasts that I have really enjoyed listening to recently is the KunstlerCast. James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency and The Geography of Nowhere, and host Duncan Crary share the microphone weekly to comment on the "tragic comedy of suburban sprawl."