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My Intentional Life: Hot Flies in the Summertime
The roomies jackhammer up concrete to make way for a garden. See what happens when that freshly-tilled urban soil meets a rainy summer and feral cats.
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Urbivore’s Dilemma, Week 11: Cast iron and pot luck
This week's Urbivore's Dilemma: Hosting the biggest dinner party ever in my tiny Brooklyn apartment, and getting sentimental about heirloom cast iron skillets.
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My Intentional Life: Things Get Messy
Gabriel and Hunny wrestle with one of the most divisive issues of communal living: housekeeping. Will the roommates find a way to clean up without breaking up?
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My Intentional Life: Crash Pad
Gabriel is moving into a building where he and his new roommates are taking a crack at a more intentional lifestyle. But is this place ready for them?
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Urbivore’s Dilemma, Week 9: The well-traveled vegetable
A takeout eater turned farm-fresh foodivore takes her vegetables on vacation and tries to figure out where to compost their remnants. Should she get a worm bin? Weigh in!
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Ask Umbra on avoiding 'pink slime' in ground beef and flushing kitty litter
Ask Umbra tackles where to buy slime-free hamburger meat. She also revisits the flushability issue from last week's kitty litter column.
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My Intentional Life: My Unsustainable Life
Last week, we met Gabriel and his roommates. This week, he gets dumped. Heartbroken, he bikes across Europe in search of answers to life's questions.
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Ask Umbra on sustainable choices for cat litter
Are you thinking inside your cat's box? Ask Umbra herds kitties towards a greener way of pooping. If you have a friend with whiskers, you'll want to read this.
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The debut of My Intentional Life: Somewhat true stories of attempted sustainability
Welcome to My Intentional Life, Grist’s first original comic strip. In this debut episode, you’ll meet Gabriel Willow, and his pals Josh, Hunny, and Tracie, real-life roommates who are trying to live a more sustainable life in a Brooklyn brownstone. They’re raising a few eyebrows while raising a few chickens, and tending a roof garden and […]
