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Homemade natural moisturizer = excitement! 21 Dec 2010 | 07:04 am
Happy 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...
Is there any point in having a green wedding if nobody notices? 29 Oct 2010 | 05:07 am
Yep. Me again. Creeping into the blogosphere like I tend to do these days — about once every few months, with a totally random subject of conversation, which every blogger will tell you does NOT lead ...
Holy crap, my city officials have a sense of humour! And they care about the environment! 1 Sep 2010 | 01:18 pm
Sometimes, 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 g...
This woman might just be crazier than me… 21 Jul 2010 | 06:02 am
Hey everyone, Yep, it’s me again. Resurrecting myself momentarily from the blogging graveyard, as I have some news for you — no, mom, I’m not pregnant. And no, I’m not starting another blog devoted t...
An epilogue to the epilogue… 14 Apr 2010 | 03:58 am
OK, I know I’ve technically wrapped up ye ol’ Green as a Thistle, but something very exciting happened! Those who’ve read Sleeping Naked is Green through to the end will know that the epilogue is all ...
Final Post: As they say in Copenhagen, hej hej 14 Dec 2009 | 01:02 am
You know when you say goodbye to someone and then you both realize you’ll be walking to the same subway station so you have to do another goodbye five minutes later and it’s kind of awkward? Well, I f...
Copenhagen diary entries: Monday and Tuesday; also, Thistle is going off the air! 9 Dec 2009 | 05:54 am
All right peeps, I’ve gotta be honest with you — I kind of need to bail on this blog. There are so many green bloggers out there who are so much more willing to sit at a computer after a full day’s wo...
A man, a plan: Tim Flannery 29 Oct 2009 | 08:39 am
Correct me if I’m wrong, but my oenophile eyes and 30/20 vision (for reals, I have crazy-good eyesight) tell me that’s a bottle of Wolfblass in the photo above, nestled carefully in a grassy knoll. Oh...
There’s møre tö Sweden thån IKEA ånd Volvo 2 Oct 2009 | 03:18 am
Hello! (Waving sheepishly) Apologies for the prolongued absence… there’s this thing called the Toronto International Film Festival that sucks up all my time for two weeks every September, and as soon ...
There’s møre tö Sweden thån IKEA ånd Volvo 1 Oct 2009 | 11:18 pm
Hello! (Waving sheepishly) Apologies for the prolongued absence… there’s this thing called the Toronto International Film Festival that sucks up all my time for two weeks every September, and as soon ...