When it comes to minimum input and maximum output in the kitchen, beer bread is about as good as it gets. Five minutes of work reward you with a heavenly aroma wafting through the house and a warm, crusty loaf in under an hour. I once made beer bread for a cooking class called Cozy Breads & Soups, and even after watching me make it, several ...
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Eco Factor: Concept cellphone needs you to spin it for power. With the sun providing energy only the during daytime, and the wind blowing stronger at night than in the day, industrial designers are working on products that harness a completely...
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Gifts Giving Back: Luxury eco-shopping meets Toys for Tots
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Here’s an eco-luxury shopping event for well-heeled environmentalists — an event complete with eco-celebs like Rachelle Carson-Begley & Ed Begley, eco-couture from Linda Loudermilk, and eco-friendly drinks and eats. Gifts Giving Back, a sustainable shopping event benefiting Toys for Tots, invites all to sip organic cocktails and ...
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How do you jump start a lagging lambing season? Try to make a flight at an airport that's 200 miles from your farm. Three lambs, including a set of twins, were born Wednesday morning as we were scrambling to get out the door.
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Spicy Pumpkin Pecan Raisin Muffin Recipe
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This is my favorite time of the year, and not just because all the cabbage worms and blister beetles have been killed by a nice hard frost. No, it's more than that. The pleasant crunch of leaves underfoot, the smell of woodsmoke in the air, the invigorating cool weather can only mean one thing—The Season Of Eating has begun.
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In a breakthrough that might change a few minds about the battery-swap concept, Nissan says that they have succeeded in tests that would extend the range of the LEAF and other electric cars up to 186 miles on each charge, almost double today’s range with an improved battery.
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400 gallons: The amount of water per person used by the average American citizen; 30 percent of this is used for outdoor purposes, such as watering the lawn.
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I'm a teacher, and a good one. I taught in public schools for almost 20 years until I had surgery. If you want particulars, google Laminotomy and recessed spinal stenosis, bilateral lumbar radiculopathy and get ready to wince. I had surgery in December of 2004 and haven't been back in a regular classroom since. I miss the classroom, I now know ...
Photo via Best Week Ever PETA is one of the most controversial activist groups operating today. The group's contentious media campaigns Read the full story on TreeHugger
Do you enjoy gardening and helping others? Have you ever wanted to learn more about growing plants? Are you interested in butterfly gardening, rain gardens, landscape plants or lawns? If you answered yes to these questions, your chance may be just around the corner.
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gadgets for the gardeners on your list Los Angeles Times I asked just that to the folks at Gardener's Supply, a Vermont-based mail-order company. Their most popular tools and gadgets with California consumers are …
Citing high rates of graffiti, the City Council voted on Monday to gradually ban the use of roll-down metal security gates, a move that would eliminate what has been an enduring if forbidding feature of the urban streetscape.
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A federal judge in Manhattan sentenced a former city electrical contractor on Monday to three months in prison for giving tens of thousands of dollars in unlawful payments to a corrupt union official.
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The Lo-Down is the Lower East Side's online community news source. We cover current events, the arts, real estate, food and entertainment in one of the world's most historic and culturally diverse neighborhoods.
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"2 million for this sounds like a bargain . this would be what...5 million on the upper west side? 15 million in the west village? 25 million on the upper east side? i think i'll take the 2 million beauty in park slope and hire a driver."—anonymous [Pre-Renovation Park Slope Property Is A $2M Blast From The Past]
In honor of the International climate change negotiations happening in Copenhagen, Denmark this week, UCLA is presenting a screening of "Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy" followed by a panel discussion and book signing.
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[Photo at right via Tecttonic/Curbed Photo Pool .] Over by the High Line, architect/developer Cary Tamarkin's 456 West 19th Street is taking shape among a slew of high-profile new West Chelsea buildings. This one is comparatively understated, made up of 22 duplexes with huge studio-style windows occasionally streaked in blue and curvy balconies ...
An Interfaith Memorial Service at St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church on Tuesday, December 1 (World AIDS Day) starting at 7 PM. 116 Sixth Avenue in Park Slope.
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Several years back Yankee Bill, Princess, Buddy & I moved from a squat uninteresting 1100 sq ft 1970’s raised ranch into a gorgeous old 3000 sq ft Victorian built somewhere around 1890. The place is in fabulous shape-well loved and well taken care of for all that time. . . which is why you don’t see tons of posts on how to ...
 
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Some jurors at a trial in federal court were persuaded by the defendant’s claim that he had broken with the mob.
When I first picked up Hudson River Valley Farms: The People and the Pride behind the Produce by Joanne Michaels, I thought it was a typical self-promoting regional book, meant to be sold at gift shops throughout its depicted geography. But I discovered within the farm profiles a commentary on agriculture in New York [...]
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