Now that actress Natalie Portman’s vegan shoe line has gone extinct, er, belly up, what’s a vegan girl to do when she wants to look fashionable? And stay chic and comfy without feathers, fur, or fluffy, warm wool, spun silk or those toasty cashmere socks from The Forecast? Sure, it is easy to avoid fur, but […]
It seems that most of us have made it intact through the worst the Snowpocalypse had to offer: we have shoveled until we were blue in the face; we have salted and we have dug, and we have checked roofs and lived in fear that these old houses might turn on us and not be […]
On February 16th, the Capitol Hill Energy Coop hosted a meeting with Jim Conlon of Elysian Energy to discuss the aggregate findings of home energy audits conducted on Capitol Hill since March of last year. Elysian is one of two companies the District Department of the Environment uses to conduct the audits, which are free […]
Walking home from work tonight I was reminded how much more clean up the city is really facing in the aftermath of Snowmageddon. Not only do they still have massive amounts of snow to remove from parking lanes, crosswalks, and other public spaces, they now have mounds of trash that sit almost as high as […]
Happy Mardi Gras! Since my mother is from New Orleans, this time of year always means King Cakes and jambalaya — two of my favorite things. Sadly our order of cakes didn’t make it because of the blizzard, but we made the best of it. We took some of those massive mounds of snow and […]