Archives for December, 2013

  YUCCA: SOUTHWESTERN FLORA OF THE DESERT   When most of us think of the desert, we think of rocks and cacti and sand and a rather barren landscape. However, this climate is home to many useful and medicinal plants that grow right under our noses. I am currently travelling through the Southwest of the […]

Glass is beautiful. It is made by melting sand at high temperatures and creating a solid, non-porous container. When it breaks down, it turns back into sand, thus completing a cycle of sustainable resource. This is the current result of the world’s overuse of disposable plastic products. Most of it ends up in our fragile […]