Here’s a list of encouraging environmental trends I see in my everyday life:
- “Odor-free” paint is widely advertised, and today we found water-based polyurethane as well. In general, indoor air quality actually is a bigger issue here than in the states - possibly because the quality of renovation materials has been so low that places […]

So, having sucessfully closed on our new house this week (a project that took on moon landing or great pyramid-like proportions) yesterday we went door shopping. This entailed visiting the two or three major old housing demolition projects in our immediate neighborhood and looking at the old doors stacked near the entrance gate for sale. […]

Friday HIHO SH’s Aunt Five and uncle came by to visit and brought us a box of grapes they had picked themselves in the northeastern Chinese countryside. Grapes like these don’t come around that often; if you live in America you may never have tasted the like. Were you, like me, a little puzzled as […]