Rebel Without A Car

by Enci Seeds of Change When we moved into our new home this year, my husband and I decided that the front lawn, that was mostly covered with dried grass and lots of weed, will have to go and must eventually be replaced with something sustainable. We didn’t know what...

Rebel Without A Car

by Enci Turn Your Time Into Dollars “We define others not by what they have but by what they lack. Rather than examine what they can offer,” writes Edgar Cahn, recipient of DC Human Rights Award, author of No More Throw-Away People and founder of Time Banks USA, “we...

Rebel Without A Car

by Enci It’s Challenging Being A “Natural” Mama – Part 2 Last month I wrote about how I found it challenging being a Natural Mama here in Los Angeles—and the challenges that I described were from outside influence, which is hard to control and difficult to...

Rebel Without a Car

by Enci It’s Challenging Being A “Natural” Mama A few years ago my husband was telling me about a cousin of his in Australia, who moved out into the woods, far away from civilization, in order to raise her children from “modern”...

Rebel Without A Car

by Enci A Trip to a Sustainable City In May my family went on a trip to Minneapolis to attend Neighborhoods, USA (NUSA), where we did a presentation on Website and Social Media How-To practices and where we also met a lot of people from around the country, who believe...

Rebel Without A Car

by Enci Back to Basics Since my pregnancy, what we eat has become a very important subject in our lives. Before Sydney I was avoiding foods that had additives, food coloring, high-fructose corn syrup, sugars, and anything that I could not pronounce. But now that...