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by Gabriel Cross Upcycling is a fancy word for doing something our great grandparents did every day without a care for sustainability: taking junk and putting it to new use. Think of old tattered clothes being turned into quilts, and you pretty much get the...
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From The Joys of Cooking: A Love Story by Judith Newton “There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broke and wine drunk.” M.F.K. Fisher, Gastronomical Me October 2005, I am meeting my daughter, Anna, in London where she is taking such...
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by Gabriel Cross It is widely known that the ozone layer, part of the stratosphere, filters ultraviolet radiation out of sunlight. Without this filtering, life as we know it could not exist: UV light is much higher energy than visible sunlight: it breaks chemical bonds,...
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From The Joys of Cooking: A Love Story by Judith Newton “There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broke and wine drunk.” M.F.K. Fisher, Gastronomical Me In the summer of 1985 I was living with three men—-my first husband, Dick, who...
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by Gabriel Cross You may have heard that being vegetarian is green. You may also have had a vegan activist tell you that meat is murder and you are killing the planet. While there is definitely some truth to the argument that a vegetarian diet...
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by Gabriel Cross After writing about buying second hand goods, I got a few comments about giving to thrift stores, selling to stores like Crossroads, and having a garage sale to get rid of stuff instead of just throwing it away. After all, as I...
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by Gabriel Cross This past weekend Courtney and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary. We decided, instead of gifts, to indulge ourselves to the highest possible degree at the local thrift stores. We did so not because we are broke (although we are not exactly sizing...
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by Gabriel Cross It’s complicated. Cars are complicated. First, we want to stop burning fossil fuels, and for most of us the gasoline going into our tank is the only fuel that we actually come into contact with directly. You can look at a light...
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by Gabriel Cross For greenhouse gases, like so many other things in our environment, too little and too much are equally problematic. Life is a balancing act, a tightrope walk, and anything which tips the balance one way or the other can lead to a...
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