Posts Tagged ‘GR Recommends…’
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
Oakland’s historic Jack London Square is the epicenter of the city’s growing culinary culture. In just a few short months it will be home to the Jack London Public Market, a 72,000 square-foot food hall bigger than San Francisco’s Ferry Building Marketplace and Seattle’s Pike Place Market combined. Fresh fruit, veggies, fish, meats, cheeses, wines, [...]
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
First of all I want to apologize for my disappearing act, I’ve been all over the place, and have a lot of great stuff to report back! Napa can be hard to enjoy if you aren’t in that spend-for-joy mindset. Like Las Vegas, Napa sometimes promotes a feeling of excitement through indulgence, and because the [...]
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
Oh Baby! Everyone’s favorite green boutique – you know, the one that had organic hot cider and gingerbread to snack on while you shop on chilly days – is having a great sale! Each item has a plus side: the Vivienne Westwood shoes are made from recycled, nontoxic plastic, the cotton onesies from pesticide-free plants, [...]
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
I’ve been writing about dirt all day, biodynamically-farmed dirt. Here’s an excerpt and some resources: “…There are some acres of Sonoma land farmed one step beyond the organic model, where pesticides are prohibited, and instead follow the stricter biodynamic method. Biodynamic farming is one of the branches on the tree of German philosopher Rudolf Steiner’s [...]
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Tags: California, Farm to Table, Garden Everywhere, GR Recommends..., Sustainable Home
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Well, aside from the fact that we get to go on, or at least try to, there is a rather unpublicized measure in the approved bail out bill that deserves major attention. It wasn’t in the first plan that was turned down, either. The U. S. of A. has extended solar tax credits! These were [...]
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
There are 21 known species of the biggest seabirds on earth, the Albatross. 19 of them are on the endangered species, too close to extinction. Photo courtesy: www.anu.edu.au I’ve long loved these majestic, smooth-feathered flyers; in fact they are my favorite bird. They fish in varied climates, from Hawaii to sub-arctic waters. When they are [...]
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Today California took another couple steps towards going green. Ground was broken on what hopes to be a Gold LEED certified Oakland skyscraper, caddy-corner to Oakland Marriot. And, Arnold signed an anti-sprawl bill to mimic the sucessful building strategies that make population density, and access to public transit and shopping, work in European cities. Benecia [...]
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
I write and recommend many spectacular eating experiences all up and down the West Coast, and some day in the not-so-distant future, the East Coast and regions abroad, but I need to preface, or shall I say footnote, a few underlying issues that should not be overlooked when ordering your next tasty meal at one [...]
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
I’ve packed a lot into this past week of Mendocino County travels. Here are a few of my top picks (and a peeves too, for good measure): Shambhala Ranch As the saying goes, “it’s not the destination but the journey that matters,” so too with Shambhala Ranch, named for the owners’ dual vision of heaven [...]
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
I love the writing of Pico Iyer. And I loved it even more when I heard about this idea of his: to look at each individual when he’s traveling as though he or she could be a prince or princess. As he explains, a princess of Thailand, who grew up in the palace with the [...]
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