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Issa’s Reviews: Raising Baby Green Part One

November 22, 2010 Posted by Issa under Parenting, Simple-Eco-Happy
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Lately, I’ve been perusing the pregnancy section of the library. I came across Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care. I’m not really looking for any guidance on “green” topics, but it is a topic I care about, and I figured I could at least review it for LoveLiveGrow. Plus, in the meantime, I might learn a thing or two.

Instead of any education or pleasure, though, all I got out of this book were frustration, anger, and incredulous sputters. Keep Reading

Book Review of The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler

August 5, 2010 Posted by Issa under Mother Culture
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While at the library, I happened upon the book The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler. It’s subtitle is, “Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century”. It seemed like an important book to dive into and a great random library find, so I snatched it up. I didn’t recognize Kunstler’s name at first, but now that I’ve noticed it on this book, I’ve see that his name pops up now and then in other writings I encounter, so appreciate having this book under my belt to fill out the other things that I read. Keep Reading

More Endgame

July 1, 2010 Posted by Issa under Mother Culture
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Prior to picking up either of these books, I was already convinced. Jensen says “Civilization is not and can never be sustainable…” and “Our way of living is based on and requires…persistent and widespread violence,” and “Civilization is not redeemable. This culture will not undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living…” and I already agree. He makes bold claims such as “The only sustainable level of technology is the stone age,” and I don’t immediately jump to argue. Keep Reading

Endgame Vol 1: The Problem of Civilization

June 24, 2010 Posted by Issa under Mother Culture
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The sermon begins with the idea that civilization is not and never will be sustainable. By definition, it is unsustainable, exploitative, and destructive. It is killing the planet, and us, and making things extremely difficult for anything that comes after us. No one who understands this believes that our culture will, as Jensen puts it “undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living.” Keep Reading

Where the Wild Things Are – Movie Review

October 29, 2009 Posted by Issa under Uncategorized
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I don’t remember the book Where The Wild Things Are from my childhood, but I worked for 11 years as a nanny and came to know it quite well. At first, it made no sense to me. I would read it aloud to children but wouldn’t get any meaning from it. Then I heard a line of the book spoken by Leo Starwind in the middle of a song of his. Starwind spoke the line in a very particular, distinct, dramatic voice. I went home and read the story aloud in this voice, and instantly my love, understanding, and connection to the tale clicked into place.

That may be a strange story of coming to love a children’s book, but it is a strange book indeed, and the movie blows it up into the reality-sized strangeness of the emotional landscape that is real life. The movie Where The Wild Things Are takes the barest hints into the mind of Max offered up in the book and fiercely and fearlessly expands on those clues into a dark and dirty, uncomfortably formidable movie. Keep Reading

Keeping Chickens: The Essential Guide by Jeremy Hobson and Celia Lewis

October 12, 2009 Posted by Issa under Animals
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Joshua picked up because he’s interested in having chickens right away on our homestead. While chickens will not be my main focus, I wanted to have an overview of the topic and so I read this book, too. Keep Reading

The Diva Cup

August 9, 2009 Posted by Issa under Uncategorized
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It’s an unfortunate fact that many women are bothered and inconvenienced by their monthly menstruation. It’s no surprise, though. Periods are expensive, require a lot of contraptions, are wasteful, smell bad, and are just generally annoying.

Or are they? Keep Reading

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