Category Archives: Foraging

Healthy Halloween Treats for Little Critters

It's that time of year when the sugar-fueled mania of your kids threatens to drive you mad. But with a little imagination, you can get them to eat healthy Halloween treats. These awesome healthy Halloween snack ideas are just what the doctor ordered!

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Four Things you can Do with Solar Energy

Solar energy is the ability to capture incoming sunlight and convert it into a clean form of electricity, but it has uses in our world beyond just powering a home or business. In this article, we explore some of the other uses for solar energy.

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Stage 1: Planning the Tiny House

Stage 1: Planning the tiny house

We're building a tiny house! Now that the initial infatuation with our Tiny House Project has dissipated and it's starting to feel real, we've gotten busy planning. We quickly settled on the size — approx. 8' × 24' — and ordered the trailer. Ian took these dimensions and began work on the blueprints.

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What has the Internet ever done for Us?

Let’s start with a big question and then go from there. Today’s big question is this: How green is the internet? To be fair, it’s a question that’s already been asked - not least at a Google sponsored summit in 2013 that included Bill Gates as a keynote speaker. The answer is, perhaps inevitably, not quite as bright, shiny and cheerfully upbeat as all those shiny screensavers would have you believe. Lest we forget, the internet runs on electricity.

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