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Green as a Thistle RSS Feed- Homemade natural moisturizer = excitement! December 20, 2010Happy holidays, ye fellow bloggers and readers! I don’t even really know what “ye” means, but nevermind. I just wanted to pop up into your RSS feed/inbox/Google search/etc. for two reasons, which are completely unrelated other than a tenuous connection to Christmas. One is this: I decided to make some from-scratch holiday gifts this year, [ […]Vanessa Farquharson
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- Holy crap, my city officials have a sense of humour! And they care about the environment! September 1, 2010Sometimes, this city drives me crazy — there aren’t enough bike lanes, the public transit system is a mess and we’ve even banned kite-flying in one of our parks! And yet, every now and then, Toronto gets it right. The most recent example is here below, for your viewing pleasure:Vanessa Farquharson
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Happy Earth Day to you too!
Your blog is so inspiring and I read it every day, as I am trying to do the same thing with my own lifestyle (but as a university student).
Keep up the great work!
-Mido Hartman, Virginia, USA
(here via Treehugger.com)
Sorry, I may have found my way over here from Treehugger.com….or another way, since I keep tabs on you, NIM, and EnviroWoman (but yay for so many interconnected blogs! You often quote/talk of NIM, unless I am mistaken).
Happy Earth Day to you, too, Vanessa! I wish I lived in Ottawa, so I could have a kick-ass cake like that on MY birthday (in fair trade chocolate, of course!)… that Ottawa Cake Lady is amazingly talented!