My pal Julie recently launched a shop, Autopia, that carries some green goods for those in the Autism Spectrum, those that care for them, and anyone that wants to show their support for the Spectrum.
Julie’s daughter is autistic and she created the site because as she notes, “Too many people stare when kids on the spectrum act up, but the kids can’t help their actions. So, I thought…there are kids and adults that act ‘bad’ and /can/ help it, why is that ok and why should they think they’re better than the ASD kids? We taught our daughter to say …read more

Thanks for participating in last month’s water conservation poll. We’ll have a new one in the sidebar soon.
What measures do you take to conserve water?
I’m not listing each answer, but here are some highlights:
• Most popular answer (aside from “At least 5 of the above”) was turn off water while washing dishes and brushing teeth with 15% of the vote.
• Eating little or no meat claimed 7% of the vote. It takes a lot of water to get a package of beef to the store. . .
• Compost instead of using the garbage disposal and wear clothes more than once …read more