May 19, 2013 • mothernaturenetwork
mothernaturenetwork: How to bike to work (or anywhere else) A little bit of planning will make incorporating a bike into your travels much easier. Here’s how to get rolling! Miss my days of biking to work. When I lived in Philly I would load up the saddle bags on my bike with my “anchor gear” (hot rollers, makeup, hairspray, shoes etc.) and off I went to the station. I loved it… Connecting with the fresh air (well, kinda fresh) and a pretty bike ride through Washington Square to Old City. My favorite was the bike rode home after work, a perfect way to end a crazy stressful night in the newsroom. If you can do it, I recommend it and if I could do it now I would!

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How to bike to work (or anywhere else)

A little bit of planning will make incorporating a bike into your travels much easier. Here’s how to get rolling!

Miss my days of biking to work. When I lived in Philly I would load up the saddle bags on my bike with my “anchor gear” (hot rollers, makeup, hairspray, shoes etc.) and off I went to the station. I loved it… Connecting with the fresh air (well, kinda fresh) and a pretty bike ride through Washington Square to Old City. My favorite was the bike rode home after work, a perfect way to end a crazy stressful night in the newsroom. If you can do it, I recommend it and if I could do it now I would!

May 19, 2013
May 18, 2013 • mothernaturenetwork
mothernaturenetwork: When Marisa Lynch lost her job last year, she went looking for a project and found it: 365 days. 365 pieces of clothing. $365. She started her blog, New Dress A Day, and began transforming frightening thrift-store finds into envy-worthy fashions for just a dollar a day. For the entire year Lynch didn’t do any traditional clothes shopping, which means none of her items contributed to the loss of energy or raw materials required to produce new garments. Although her 365-day project is over, Lynch is still giving second life to old muumuus and prom dresses. 9 bloggers’ yearlong green journeys

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When Marisa Lynch lost her job last year, she went looking for a project and found it: 365 days. 365 pieces of clothing. $365. She started her blog, New Dress A Day, and began transforming frightening thrift-store finds into envy-worthy fashions for just a dollar a day.

For the entire year Lynch didn’t do any traditional clothes shopping, which means none of her items contributed to the loss of energy or raw materials required to produce new garments. Although her 365-day project is over, Lynch is still giving second life to old muumuus and prom dresses.

9 bloggers’ yearlong green journeys

May 18, 2013 • mothernaturenetwork
mothernaturenetwork: Early bird or late riser? Blame it on your chronotype The number of hours of sleep we need and the time of day we sleep best varies — and the differences are natural.

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Early bird or late riser? Blame it on your chronotype

The number of hours of sleep we need and the time of day we sleep best varies — and the differences are natural.

May 18, 2013 • arcweb.archives.gov
todaysdocument: usnatarchives: It’s Bike to Work Day! For today’s Flashback Friday post in honor of our exhibit “Searching for the Seventies”  we found this DOCUMERICA photo of a bike in El Paso, Texas, in 1972. “El Paso’s Second Ward, a Chicano Neighborhood, 06/1972” Danny Lyon, Photographer. Did you have a bike in the 1970s? Did it have a banana seat? Streamers flowing from the handlebars? “My chrome is shining just like an icicleI ride around town on my lowrider bicycle…” (possibly gratuitous but almost certainly requisite Beastie Boys quote)

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It’s Bike to Work Day! For today’s Flashback Friday post in honor of our exhibit “Searching for the Seventies”  we found this DOCUMERICA photo of a bike in El Paso, Texas, in 1972.

“El Paso’s Second Ward, a Chicano Neighborhood, 06/1972”
Danny Lyon, Photographer.

Did you have a bike in the 1970s? Did it have a banana seat? Streamers flowing from the handlebars?

“My chrome is shining just like an icicle
I ride around town on my lowrider bicycle…”

(possibly gratuitous but almost certainly requisite Beastie Boys quote)

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May 14, 2013 • mothernaturenetwork
mothernaturenetwork: How to allergy-proof your bedroom Here’s what you need to keep from sneezing so much.

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How to allergy-proof your bedroom

Here’s what you need to keep from sneezing so much.

May 14, 2013 • doctorswithoutborders
doctorswithoutborders: Photo: Over the next four weeks, MSF project coordinator Will Turner and his team will mount an expedition to screen 40,000 people for sleeping sickness in remote villages of the Democratic Republic of Congo. DRC: Through northern Congo with a fridge Travelling along muddy rainforest tracks by motorbike and crossing swollen rivers by dugout canoe while carrying a refrigerator, a microscope and a generator is no easy task. But this is what MSF project coordinator Will Turner and his team will be doing for the next four weeks.  Without treatment, sleeping sickess - transmitted by the tsetse fly - is always fatal.

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Photo: Over the next four weeks, MSF project coordinator Will Turner and his team will mount an expedition to screen 40,000 people for sleeping sickness in remote villages of the Democratic Republic of Congo.


DRC: Through northern Congo with a fridge

Travelling along muddy rainforest tracks by motorbike and crossing swollen rivers by dugout canoe while carrying a refrigerator, a microscope and a generator is no easy task. But this is what MSF project coordinator Will Turner and his team will be doing for the next four weeks. 

Without treatment, sleeping sickess - transmitted by the tsetse fly - is always fatal.