Mobile Hippie

Treehugger is touting Permablitz: Near Instant Permaculture for the ‘Burbs. I don’t live in the ‘burbs, but I do live in a high density Portland neighborhood. My goal by the end of this summer is to have a highly productive front lawn. The first step in that plan is the walkway seen in this photo. Next is a rock retaining wall so that I can level things out and start planting.

Yesterday represents the first time that my kids and I biked to school. As a long time advocate of biking whenever possible, this was really cool to get my 8 and 6 year olds out in the fast lane–well, 8 mph is not exactly fast. (more…)