Environment

Nature? Nurture? Neither? More?

December 15, 2010




After writing my last post, I had a lot of interesting side discussions about the old nature versus nurture debate. Some of those discussions happened in the comments on my last post. Some of them happened on twitter. Some of them happened in person. While I think I have made it fairly clear that I [...]

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What do you do with new knowledge?

June 13, 2010




Every day I learn new things. I learn them by talking to other people. I learn them by reading newspapers, books, blogs and journals. I learn them through experimentation and observation.  Sometimes when I learn something new, it serves to confirm my choices or my beliefs. Those moments are certainly satisfying and comforting. I did [...]

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Two babies, two good decisions, around $4000 saved

April 22, 2010




My babies are growing up. Both of them are out of diapers during the day and both of them are pretty much done with nursing (Emma still comfort nurses a bit in bed). This is a time of mixed emotions. Happy to be done with some of the baby stuff (good riddance diapers!), but also [...]

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Of SUVs and manufacturing…

July 20, 2008




Our children will inherit a different world from the one we grew up in. And today was a reminder of that. Over the past few decades, the North American economy has been shifting further towards a service-based economy. Manufacturing jobs are being moved overseas and as a result, factories in Canada and the United States [...]

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Raining on the diapers

June 23, 2008




We use cloth diapers, to save money and the environment. And when the ground is not covered with snow and ice, we try to hang them outside to dry, also to save money and the environment. This usually works quite well, but over the past 24 hours, each time the diapers are almost dry, it starts [...]

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