Ecofrugal Living

I see that my last entry, about two weeks ago, described the "teeny-weeny" zucchini that I had just spotted in the garden. Ha, i...

Two, three, four, tell us what the garden bore... It was an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, yellow-flowered green zucchini that I saw for the fir...

On my recent trip to Pittsburgh, I read an article in Acela, the Amtrak on-board magazine, called "The Race for Third Place." (I...

It occurred to me that there ought to be a term--"ecofrugal"--for people who routinely do things that both save money and help the...

This week the New York Times ran two contradictory articles about the current crackdown on credit card issuers. Monday's article, ...

Haphazardly, in our case. So far, we've planted five crops, with extremely mixed results: The snap peas are coming up splendidly--in ...

According to an article in yesterday's New York Times, frugality is actually a hot new trend. Here are a few of the radical steps the...