I get a lot of questions about the name of this blog - Suburban Green Is People. I’ve got a page up talking about the name, but I’ll paste it all here too. And to answer some common questions: Yes, it’s a little long, but I like it; “suburban” is spelt just the way it […]

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“For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.”
- Rachel Carson
Lawn chemicals bug me. Well, I’m not a huge fan of lawns in general, but the poisons people pour on them really bug me. In […]

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It’s Earth day. I think it is appropriate that (here , at least) Earth Day comes just as Spring is really getting her groove on and the leaves are unfurling in triumphant little explosions and the first flowers are warming their faces in the sun. There is more daylight each day; there is hope and […]

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About Suburban Green is People
How low can we go? So often it seems that the only way to make a real difference in the toll we take on the earth is to move out into the middle of nowhere, go off-grid, take up homesteading and ride a bike into town once a month for […]

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