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We Are Not Alone: Our 50 Year Journey To Eden and Rhubarb Pie
This summer we took an EV-powered road trip across the country, visiting the place we met and married 50 years ago.
Passive House Rules: Building As Holy Work
To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly,...
Passive House the Sequel: Here We Go Again!
In September 2015, we sat on a pile of gravel, announcing the build of our forever house—a certified Passive House—in McMinnville, Oregon. If you’ve been following our story you know nothing is forever. We did the house. We lived in it 4 years. ...
The Water Song
**This is the 4th post in a series on our rainwater system. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3***...
Building Our Own Private Wetland
**This is the 3rd post in a series on our rainwater system. Read Part 1 and Part 2*** Returning to...
How to Save 45,000 Gallons
**This is the 2nd post in a series on our rainwater system. Read Part 1*** Do you know how many...
Net-Zero Water: Capturing the Rain
In the day the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the...
Father of the Groom (and Brides)
This is the year of weddings for our family. Nephew Tim and Amanda got it started May 20 in Boise...
New Song: We Resist, We Build, We Rise
On April 29, with 200,000 others, I marched in the 2nd People’s Climate March in Washington DC to...
Forever Home, Part 2: Pulling Nails
I love this picture of Jessi and I holding the bags of nails we pulled from the boards of the...
Forever House One
We lived 4 places during the construction of our Net Zero hacienda. To distinguish among them, Amy...
Viva La Vulva
Respect My Existence or Expect My Resistance Respeta Mi Existencia O Espera Resistencia **This...
Grizzly Bears, Epiphany, and Hope for the Future
Today is January 6, 2017, Epiphany on the Christian calendar. I hope you’re having one. In the...
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