Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.7.2, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # a Small and Delicious Life Common Sense for the New Times ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Ruben's Could Not Be Easier Sourdough—annotated](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/rubens-could-not-be-easier-sourdough-annotated/) - I strongly believe that we should start in a way that is the simplest possible. It is easy to make things more complex, but it is a lot harder to make them simple once you have invested a lot into learning how to make them hard. Sourdough bread tends to have an awful lot of - [We have enough Ideas (or, No pie for you.)](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/we-have-enough-ideas-or-no-pie-for-you/) - Why are we not winning the fight against climate chaos? Why was Trump just elected? Why has there been a slaughter of drug addicts this year? Because we think about change wrong,⊕You can read all my past writings on this topic under the Behaviour Change tab of this website. and so our efforts are often wasted. - [How to make Sauerkraut or pickled vegetables the easiest and cheapest way possible (crocks are for holding umbrellas)](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/how-to-make-sauerkraut-or-pickled-vegetables-the-easiest-and-cheapest-way-possible/) - Making sauerkraut is incredibly easy to do, and with Fido jars you will be richly rewarded for your few minutes of work. - [My best loaf yet.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/my-best-loaf-yet/) - The slices of bread on my sandwich were not loaf-shaped, they were round—perfectly round—and it was bursting with alfalfa sprouts. Eaten by a young boy with long, wavy hair and often-repaired glasses, this circular sandwich was part of a pretty alien picture in my small-town elementary school. Mom was baking whole wheat bread⊕Whole wheat bread - [Loaner Bags by Deposit](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/loaner-bags-by-deposit-its-hard-to-always-remember-to-bring-your-own-bags-why-not-create-a-neighborhood-wide-bag-deposit-system/) - Originally published on theTyee.ca. Ever felt guilty for forgetting your re-useable bag at home? Felt the accusing stare of the clerk or fellow shoppers? With the memory of Christmas giving so fresh in our minds, redolent with blister packs and bubble wraps, perhaps plastic shopping bags are kind of insignificant relative to our total plastic - [Easy Homemade Soap](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/easy-homemade-soap/) - This was one of my first posts on TreeHugger.com. One day I tried to figure out why no one knows how to do anything anymore. We can’t understand, let alone repair, most of the gadgets we use everyday. We increasingly eat packaged and pre-prepared food; even organic food often comes wrapped in plastic. We don’t - [Clarifying vegetable fermentation](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/clarifying-vegetable-fermentation/) - In this article I will identify and clarify as much of this as I can: •Different goals of fermenting •Why use an airlock •Other gear suggestions •You can use any salt •Tap water is probably fine •Botulism is unheard of - [How many species will that cost?](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/how-many-species-will-that-cost/) - Where is the money for the Green New Deal, or the hydrogen highway, or total electrification going to come from? I am not talking about who we are going to tax. It is going to come from wealth, extracted from nature and worked by labour. It is going to come at the cost of at least 200 species per day, every day. - [Pickle Soup](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/pickle-soup/) - A delicious way to use homemade fermented dill pickles that are past their prime. - [A quick belt knife](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/a-quick-belt-knife/) - A nice belt knife I whipped up in an evening from a very affordable Mora Knife blade. - [Introducing the Cardbanneton](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/introducing-the-cardbanneton/) - A pattern for a DIY banneton for bâtard loaves. - [A disaster water filter kit](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/a-disaster-water-filter-kit/) - How to put together an affordable water filtration kit for emergencies. - [Compassionate Systems presentation at SCARP](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/compassionate-systems-presentation-at-scarp/) - This is a talk I gave at the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning. I was asked about Community Based Social Marketing and water conservation behaviour. - [Free Japanese smock apron pattern](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/free-japanese-smock-apron-pattern/) - A free pattern for a simple Japanese-style smock. - [The harsh reality of cognitive limits.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/the-harsh-reality-of-cognitive-limits/) - Want to Build Great New Habits?Interested in the Stunning Research that Changes Everything?How about The Brain Hack that Makes You a Winner? Clickbait like this is common, alongside more respectable Serious Yet Slightly Breathless News Items. I spent several years researching behaviour change and running pilot projects on pro-environmental behaviour. My reading list was measured - [Compassionate Systems](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/compassionate_systems/) - We are swamped with requests—seductions—for our attention. Most of these will fail, and if you are in the business of changing people—say you work for a government or non-profit—most of your work will fail too. This is because change hurts. Behaviour is hard to change, and we make it harder by ignoring basic facts of - [A strong and affordable backyard greenhouse](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/a-strong-and-affordable-backyard-greenhouse/) - In the rainy fall weather of the Canadian Pacific southwest, plants like tomatoes and cucumbers can easily develop blights and mildews before the fruit is ripe. If you wander the back alleys of the once-Italian neighbourhood of Vancouver's Commercial Drive, you will see many elderly gardeners shelter their tomatoes with overhangs of plastic sheeting. But - [A simple DIY bottle washer](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/a-simply-diy-bottle-washer/) - A simple DIY bottle washer for rinsing your homebrew cider or beer bottles. No need to screw it on to your faucet, it slides on. - [Universal Income may increase environmental damage.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/universal-income-may-increase-environmental-damage/) - I recently had a social media conversation about Universal Basic Income, and I would like to expand on it here. I think a UBI may greatly increase our environmental impact—and produce only a more equitable arrangement of deck chairs on the Titanic. The conversation arose when I was asked to explain my reaction to the - [Tips for making (firm) yogourt.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/tips-for-making-firm-yogourt/) - A collection of trivia, some links, and some science concerning how to make firm yogourt. - [The Life and Death of Bun-bun.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/the-life-and-death-of-bun-bun/) - The death of a newborn rabbit kit, Bun-bun, occasions a lot of thought. - [At the end of the world, there is plenty to do.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/at-the-end-of-the-world-there-is-plenty-to-do/) - “Well, should we just give up then?” If only I had a dollar for every time I have heard this, always from well-meaning people.⊕Well, if I had a dollar for each time, I would be drinking Laphroaig right now, with many more bottles in the cellar. It is all too common if you talk about - [Do street trees increase the environmental impact of cities?](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/do-street-trees-increase-the-environmental-impact-of-cities/) - Trees are green, right? And green is good, right? So trees must be good, right? How could trees be bad for the environment? Many of us have a sense that we are not on the right path; in our bones we feel the damage we do to this planet really does matter. And often we cling - [Vertical farms: A bad solution to the wrong problem.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/vertical-farms-a-bad-solution-to-the-wrong-problem/) - Sustainable means able to be sustained, and the alternative, then, is things that are unable to be sustained.⊕Bill Rees, the co-developer of Ecological Footprinting, says sustainability is like pregnancy. You either are or you aren’t, no sorta. You can read my extended rant about this at Why Green is not Sustainable. What part of unable to - [Vertical farms: the greatest hope for cities, or a band-aid on a sucking chest wound?](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/vertical-farms-the-greatest-hope-for-cities-or-a-band-aid-on-a-sucking-chest-wound/) - I sometimes find myself making negative comments about vertical farming. This happened again today, and the facebook friend to whom I responded replied very openly with, “Well, what then? Green belts?" So rather than continue my terse and impatient crypticism on social media, I will try to respond comprehensively. My analysis, as with all analyses, rests - [Free Will: we (might) use it just often enough to think it actually matters.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/free-will-we-might-use-it-just-often-enough-to-think-it-actually-matters/) - Our cultural veneration of free will traps us in dead-end expectations that are unsupported by reality. If we want to make effective change, the idea of free will is one of the first things we should jettison, or at least put in its proper place. John Michael Greer is one of my favourite thinkers and - [Forest fires show the failure of democracy.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/forest-fires-show-the-failure-of-democracy/) - Two days ago I awoke to an eerie, silent hellsky. It was dusky dark, even first thing in the morning. The colour and brightness of the sky was all wrong, not just overcast but unnatural. Throughout the day, people described it as apocalyptic, discomfiting and especially, unsettling. Even the birds kept quiet. Of course, as people - [The Compassionate Systems Theory of Change](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/the-compassionate-systems-theory-of-change/) - Most of our attempts to make change rely on a belief that people can change, that change is possible. Of course, this is true—but just barely. So, this is not much of a theory of change, but rather a Theory of Unchange—a theory of why change is so hard. Our brains are physically limited in - [Is our localism too artisanal?](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/is-our-localism-too-artisinal/) - I recently reviewed Jean-Martin Fortier's book The Market Gardener (summary: Excellent. Buy it) and was reminded of a philosophical and yet very practical farming question I asked him over beer. "Since the economy is contracting, and for many reasons we believe the trend will be a general worsening of quality of life, what is your succession - [Skill, joy, and shaving.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/skill-joy-and-shaving/) - I wrote this about five years ago, but had no place to publish it. After the topic of his most recent post veered to razors, John Michael Greer suggested I post it. Joy is a thread that runs through our Small and Delicious Life, but this column is explicitly about joy. And shaving. For much of my - [In the calmness of bees.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/in-the-calmness-of-bees/) - We have honeybees flying in our backyard again, and they have brought our family a noticeable sense of comfort. Our bees died last fall. Likely it was the varroa destructor mite, archvillain of many news stories. Carmen has noticed our bees die before we move, and she thinks this is no coincidence. I hate moving - [First they came for the Posties, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Postie...](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/first-they-came-for-the-posties-and-i-didnt-speak-out-because-i-wasnt-a-postie/) - Let me start this with a confession. I am a fiscally conservative radical leftist—and I think we need a new understanding of how an economy should serve society, and what sort of society we want our economy to serve. Our economy got personal this morning. My clock radio woke me to the news that Canada - [Being a treatise on Significant Innovations in Egg Pickling](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/being-a-treatise-on-significant-innovations-in-egg-pickling/) - Well over a decade ago, I owned a restaurant, and in the restaurant I sold pickled eggs. I also had a fully waxed handlebar moustache—so there are at least two reasons why I find hipsters to be Johnny-come-lately poseurs. Anyhow, I sold pickled eggs but I never ate one—they seemed disgusting to me.⊕I have a - [Wednesday Link Waterfall](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/wednesday-link-waterfall-6/) - Our move is mostly done, though the 80-20 rule suggests we still have 80% of the work to go. But, most of the boxes are empty and have been resold on Craigslist, we keep donating things to the Women In Need Thrift Shop, and we can see ever larger patches of floor. Sadly, a casualty - [Wednesday Link Waterfall](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/wednesday-link-waterfall-4/) - While we were away, all of our lettuce bolted—so I collected the seed. I have enough lettuce seed for approximately 20 years now, though the seed life of lettuce is often said to be around three years. Maybe I can give some away... I was curious if freshly collected seed would germinate for our fall - [I don’t want salvation.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/i-dont-want-salvation/) - I watched a deer die this week. It took about ninety seconds, which is a lot longer than I hope for, and the deer fought hard to live. The shock, pain and fear it was experiencing as it struggled against the death spreading from the bullet wound in its chest was not pleasant to watch, - [Why Green is not Sustainable.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/why-green-is-not-sustainable/) - “An Environmentalist on the Lie of Locavorism” crossed my desk the other day. It's a pretty eye-catching title, pitting “An Environmentalist” against local eating and urban farming, darlings of greens and urban planners everywhere – and calling them liars, to boot. That is a pretty big brag. But it didn’t take much reading to see - [On Democracy, Meaning, & Feeling Insane.

(or, When in doubt, plant beans.)

](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/on-democracy-meaning-feeling-insane-or-when-in-doubt-plant-beans/) - In British Columbia—where we live the Small and Delicious Life—it has been just twelve hours since the election was called for the expand-business-as-usual B.C. Liberal Party. For a little excitement, the leader of the party lost her riding, and so a byelection is likely in the near future. After the election was called by media - [Driving gives only responsibilities
—no rights.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/driving-gives-you-only-responsibilities-no-rights/) - Victoria, B.C. is a lovely town to bike in; it is fairly flat, gets quite a bit less rain than nearby Vancouver, and is a fairly compact little city. You can access most services you need on most days, even if you are not an Olympic cyclist—no thanks to the City engineers or the automobile - [Three Cheers for the Idaho Stop!!

(or, The Insanity of Over-regulating Parakeets.)

](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/three-cheers-for-the-idaho-stop-or-the-insanity-of-over-regulating-parakeets/) - I just want you to close your eyes, and imagine a parakeet, sitting on its branch and eating seeds—wearing a tiny little collar with the cutest little tag hanging from it... The Atlantic Cities is producing a lot of thinking points on new ways to think about urbanization. I seldom agree with them—I find their picture - [Wednesday Link Waterfall](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/wednesday-link-waterfall-2/) - Click the picture for a closer look at tomato seedlings growing in 4" soil blocks. In the last couple of weeks they have grown taller, but I am most happy with how robust their stems are. The tomatos are accompanied by a riper lemon and bunch more seedlings in soil blocks. A cascade of goodness, - [How to make butter.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/how-to-make-butter/) - We occasionally get a gallon of fresh cow's milk from a charming Jersey named Sultana; it is a deliciously heart-breaking reminder of hedonism lost. The milk is not homogenized so the cream floats on top and the consistency of the cream changes from the bottom of the cream cap to the top—I have to break the - [Dance of the Honey Bee—lovely slow-mo](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/dance-of-the-honey-bee/) - http://vimeo.com/60000086 When I collected my first swarm last year, I arrived at a well-manicured suburban home to find a cluster of bees the size of a Christmas Ham clumped on a branch about ten feet in the air. It is hard to describe what I felt as I walked over to stand under that swarm—peace, - [puzzle piecePiece of the Puzzle:
Joseph Tainter on Complexity](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/piece-of-the-puzzle-joseph-tainter-on-complexity/) - I developed my understanding of sustainability essentially by hyperlinking books. I would read a book, then go through the citations and find another interesting book. This led me through design and ecology and economics and psychology and business and so many other things. At some point a pattern started emerging, and new bits and pieces began to - [Peat or Coir? The correct answer is...?](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/peat-or-coir-the-correct-answer-is/) - As I say in my blogroll, TreeHugger is where I go to get enraged. In what should be an innocuous Top Nine Products for Healthy Soil post, I managed to flip my lid twice. Peat is bad and Coir is good, we are told. Coir is the hairy outer fibres left over from coconut milking—which - [Wednesday Link Waterfall.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/wednesday-link-waterfall/) - There is a lot to do around here: flats and flats of seedlings, a sewing project, pruning, and so much more. Even though lemon, lime and olive have handily survived our mild winter, I am teasing the Norns by putting my tomato seedling out in the unheated greenhouse with temperatures dropping to 5°C overnight. I - [Canning Sauerkraut](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/canning-sauerkraut/) - Making sauerkraut is something for the fall, when the cabbages are fresh and cheap. But, having made my 'kraut last October and skimmed its scum all winter,⊕To good effect. No less a luminary than James MacKinnon said—and I am quoting here—"...your sauerkraut was excellent. I bow deeply." I am now portioning it into jars and - [puzzle piecePiece of the Puzzle:
Britain loses the potter's wheel.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/britain-loses-the-potters-wheel/) - I developed my understanding of sustainability essentially by hyperlinking books. I would read a book, then go through the citations and find another interesting book. This led me through design and ecology and economics and psychology and business and so many other things. At some point a pattern started emerging, and new bits and pieces began to - [Crushing the Solar Garbage Compactor](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/crushing-the-solar-garbage-compactor/) - I am not a violent man—but I can be quite ‘passionate’, and today I am feeling passion about solar garbage compacters. It may seem an unlikely lens, but garbage compactors are—ahem—very juicy. The passion precipitating post, on TreeHugger, was mostly about the compactor doors breaking, which causes mounds of trash to build up on the - [The Bacon Life](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/the-bacon-life/) - It is easy to think the Small and Delicious Life is only so delicious because it is spiced with achievement—but independent taste testers agree the greens are crisper, the bacon more flavourful, the bread nuttier. And you get the sweet spice of achievement. We took a January trip to visit my parents in the Okanagan - [Homemade Bulk Food Measuring Bags](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/homemade-bulk-food-measuring-bags/) - Orginally published on the Glenbrook North Zero Waste Blog (more about them at the end). I keep a lot of my dry goods in glass jars to keep them fresh and safe from insects. And, of course I hate garbage, so I like to buy in bulk. The thing is, it is annoying to buy five - [Introduction to Sauerkraut](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/introduction-to-sauerkraut/) - This is a quick introduction to fermented foods, and to fermentation with Fido jars. - [Kill the planet—recycle contact lenses](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/kill-the-planet-recycle-contact-lenses/) - This is just a rant about total illiteracy of human behaviour, leading to literally the worst recycling expansion I have seen in my entire career. A contact lens weighs about 25 milligrams, so an entire year's supply of lenses is about two-thirds of a gram. A person's entire life supply of lenses would weigh less - [The 50-Million-Tree Slurp](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/the-50-million-tree-slurp/) - originally posted on theTyee.ca. Hey coffee drinker, isn't it time you started mugging it up? We have some amazing technology developing here in Canada. Homegrown high-tech whiz-bang -- Nobel Prize material, really. This system is too good to be true: it can provide fuel, or be easily processed into one of our most versatile building - [We Can Be Garbage Free](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/we-can-be-garbage-free/) - My first post on theTyee.ca. The original article is here. Trash is a choice. Time for Cradle to Cradle design. A month after Vancouver finally settled its garbage strike, people are breathing easier as their cans once again fill and miraculously empty every week. Which means we've missed - [Let's Pave Streets Green](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/lets-pave-streets-green/) - Originally published on theTyee.ca. Would you give up your extra parking spot for a garden plot? The asphalt will crack and erupt, and green plants and vines will sprout forth. No, this isn't my end of the world prophecy, this is about parking. Or gardening. Or both. The street I live on has several apartment - [Let's Claim Our Rotting Riches](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/lets-claim-our-rotting-riches/) - Originally published on theTyee.ca. A truly cool city would feature a short stroll to the local worm bin. You and I are caring people. And caring people care about composting, which is why many of us bemoan the fact that our civic governments do not collect compost. The well-informed among us may even talk fondly - [New Ways to Warm Your Bum](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/new-ways-to-warm-your-bum/) - Originally published on theTyee.ca. Forget patio heaters. Use the heat restaurants cook up. I live in a nice neighbourhood. The pleasantly tattered barbershops and import food stores of Little Italy are only recently being replaced with baby boutiques and doggy bakeries. The main street practically defines café culture, which means lots of outdoor seating, and - [Review: The Market Gardener. Summary: Excellent.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/review-the-market-gardener-summary-excellent/) - The first piece of swag to come out of writing this blog hit my mailbox this spring, when I was asked to review Jean-Martin Fortier's book The Market Gardener. Sadly, they did not also send me a broadfork. Carmen and I were also able to enjoy a one-day workshop with Jean-Martin, put on by the Young - [On the Anatomy of Thrift—videos by Farmrun](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/on-the-anatomy-of-thrift-videos-by-farmrun/) - We met Andrew Plotsky in a roundabout way—he made a short film about B. for diy.org. Naturally, when we heard he was coming up, we googled him up and watched a bunch of his stuff. I encourage you to do the same, and I encourage you to start with On the Anatomy of Thrift, Farmrun's - [We could suck a lot less.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/we-could-suck-a-lot-less/) - This picture is of the playground in the Parc de Belleville in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. It has been a little quiet here at a Small and Delicious life, because we spent all the carbon we had in our account on a summer trip through Scandinavia and France. The trip was life-altering, and is - [Wednesday Link Waterfall](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/wednesday-link-waterfall-3/) - I was going to put a photo of my crazy-vigorous tomato seedlings here – but then, while inspecting the hive, I saw the queen strolling around. She is huge! By length, a little over twice as long as a worker. By weight, I bet she is four times heavier. I actually saw her laying eggs, - [Wednesday Link Waterfall.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/wednesday-link-waterfall-5/) - We have had a couple of months of turmoil, and the fun isn't over yet. Our landlord is moving into our house, so we have been evicted from our little urban farmette. Needless to say, it isn't totally easy to find a house in a great, bikable neighbourhood, with a good school, storage for all - [Recycling is cool but Inverse Manufacturing is Hot!](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/recycling-is-cool-but-inverse-manufacturing-is-hot/) - This is one of my first posts, from TreeHugger. The original post can be seen here. Kudos to Canon and HP. A recent post highlighted the product stewardship programs that the two companies have launched for consumer products and printer cartridges, respectively. Fuji Xerox also deserves accolades for developing a product stewardship system. Ten years - [New Wine in Old Bottles](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/new-wine-in-old-bottles/) - We do it with beer. Why not vino? I don't usually have much difficulty in liquor stores; after all, the only product they sell is one of my favourite things. This time, though, I wanted to buy my red table wine in a refilled bottle -- Bordeaux in a burgundy bottle, oh my! Sadly, my - [The Top Ten Myths of Behaviour Change](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/the-top-ten-myths-of-behaviour-change/) - The Top Ten Myths of Behaviour Change from Brock Macdonald of the Recycling Council of British Columbia, on Vimeo. - [Wednesday Link Waterfall](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/wednesday-link-waterfall-7/) - Another link update, because, well, I have just so many great links. But I haven't been idle. Canada Post announced it will be ending door-to-door mail delivery, and I announced The Howl of a Fiscally Conservative Radical Leftist: First they came for the Posties, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Postie… And Part - [Easy Homemade Yogourt](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/163/) - This is one of my first posts, on TreeHugger. You can see the original article here. I do almost everything different when I make yogourt today, but that will have to be the subject of another post. ***Edit*** That other post is now written--please ignore the recipe and procedures in this post. One day I - [The Perogy Party](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/the-perogy-party/) - This is one of my first posts from TreeHugger, originally published as Buy Nothing Day Doesn't Mean Living Less. Buy Nothing Day is a holiday dear to my heart. Proud as I am to be associated with TreeHugger, I know that ecological products can only do so much. If we really want to change the - [In which I get sweary about pre-grated cheese.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/in-which-i-get-sweary-about-pre-grated-cheese/) - One of my comfort foods is whole-wheat macaroni with vegetables. Since I am a lazy cook and reluctant dishwasher I have always just grated cheese and sprinkled it on top of the noodles then stirred it into a clumpy and unevenly distributed mess. I have only made a cheese sauce twice before, and both times - [Language shapes our thoughts? Who cares?](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/language-shapes-our-thoughts-who-cares/) - Despite being regular humans with the same eyeballs as the rest of us, did you know that if a language has words that finely differentiate shades of blue and green, the speakers of that language are better able to distinguish colours in the blue-green range? This is just one of the Five examples of how - [Compassionate Systems—behaviour change and invasive species slidecast.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/compassionate-systems-behaviour-change-and-invasive-species-slide-cast/) - Why is changing behaviour so hard? In this slidecast I share a way of answering that question, and how Compassionate Systems can increase the effectiveness of our work. This was recorded at the Invasive Species forum in Richmond, BC, in January 2013. Apologies for the occasionally tinny sound—and, of course, it is only a slidecast. - [Spinifesto](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/spinifesto/) - Apologies for giving you a crick in your neck, but I was trying to make a point...click to biggify. - [The 3D Printing Bubble](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/the-3d-printing-bubble/) - This is a post with me, or about me, or something. After I engaged in a protracted argument in the comments section, Lloyd Alter summarized it into a post in its own right. Hint—I don't think 3D printers are all that and a bowl of peaches. - [Your new car makes me Green with Envy.](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/your-new-car-makes-me-green-with-envy/) - This was one of my first posts on TreeHugger.com. See the original article here. A new kind of greenspace rolled out for this year’s International Car-Free day in Vancouver, BC – a Car Park. The Vancouver Design Nerds, a fluid group of designers, architects, artists and videographers, rescued a 1973 Pontiac LeMans from a local ## Pages - [articles and blog posts](https://smallanddeliciouslife.com/articles-and-blog-posts/) - TheTyee.ca Loaner Bags By Deposit New Ways to Warm Your Bum Let's Claim Our Rotting Riches The 50-Million-Tree Slurp Let's Pave Streets Green New Wine in Old Bottles We Can Be Garbage Free TreeHugger.com 3D Printing in the Home: Fad, Fantasy, or the Future? 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