Simple Living
Simple Living is Fun!
Simple living is a lot of fun.
I don’t think this aspect occurs to people until they have been involved in simple living for a while. Admittedly, going around changing all your light bulbs may not be the most fun you’ve had this week. It has its own rewards, of course, but fun isn’t the main […]
What's on this Website?
Around this website, you will find information, ideas, and links to other sites I like. As a former librarian, I just can't stop organizing information so others can use it too! Naturally, as a librarian, I love books and ebooks, so I review a lot of them.
My blog articles are arranged by category... just click on "Browse Blog Categories" on the right side of the page. Or you can find the newest ones by clicking on the tab next to this one you are reading now, where it says "What's New?"
I hope you find the site useful and fun! -- Zana
Recent Blog Posts
Here are my newest blog posts. Subscribe to the RSS feed (in the sidebar, at right and down a ways) to find out when I add new articles or tips about simple green living.
Featured articles
Books on Simple, Green, or Simple Green Living
I can't help myself... as a librarian, author-publisher, and lifetime book lover, I have to write about books! This section ...
Eat Your Broccoli!
again testing the featured articles thing ====== How to use the featured page If you would like to enable a featured page, ...
Food
Eating Simply It’s really nice that eating simply is also eating very healthfully. By eating simply I mean:
Lots of vegetables and fruits. As much as possible, organically grown — whether in your own garden or by someone else, the closer to home the better. Produce labeled organic in the grocery stores may have come from far […]
Your Home
Earthbag BuildingMy husband Kelly and our close friend Peter Rice, with some help from me, built an earthbag home in Crestone, Colorado. We used thousands of bags meant to hold rice but they had been misprinted and we got them as seconds. Into them we put scoria — small volcanic rocks commonly used on lawns […]
Books & Ebooks
Finding and Reading EBooksEbooks can be downloaded from a variety of sources around the internet. They are green in that no trees are used in their manufacture. I have been using my background as a librarian to ferret out a variety of ebooks. On this site, I will be writing mainly about green ebooks — that is, ebooks […]