Sharon McDonnell, Author at Bluedot Living https://bluedotliving.com/author/sharonmcdonnell/ At Home on Earth Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:24:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://bluedotliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Bluedot_site-icon-32x32.png Sharon McDonnell, Author at Bluedot Living https://bluedotliving.com/author/sharonmcdonnell/ 32 32 Making Mardi Gras Greener https://bluedotliving.com/making-mardi-gras-greener/ https://bluedotliving.com/making-mardi-gras-greener/#respond Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:08:01 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/?p=17026 New Orleans nonprofit groups are getting creative to reduce trash and waste at the iconic Mardi Gras festival.

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]]> https://bluedotliving.com/making-mardi-gras-greener/feed/ 0 What’s the Buzz at Hotel Paradox? https://bluedotliving.com/whats-the-buzz-at-hotel-paradox/ https://bluedotliving.com/whats-the-buzz-at-hotel-paradox/#respond Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:22:25 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/?p=17471 In a California beach town surrounded by redwood forests, I’m staying, aptly enough, in a forest-themed hotel. Rustic benches crafted entirely from teak tree roots — typically considered waste material in the timber industry, but here trimmed, shaped, and hand-finished into one-of-a-kind seating — adorn the lobby of Hotel Paradox in Santa Cruz, as do […]

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]]> https://bluedotliving.com/knitting-a-climate-change-message/feed/ 0 Unloved Ingredients Find a Home in This Restaurant Kitchen https://bluedotliving.com/unloved-ingredients-find-a-home-in-this-restaurant-kitchen/ https://bluedotliving.com/unloved-ingredients-find-a-home-in-this-restaurant-kitchen/#respond Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:50:27 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/?p=12998 Customers arriving at Shuggie's Trash Pie + Natural Wine in San Francisco’s Mission District are greeted with a playful green and yellow façade and the promise of “hot pizza, cold wine.” Inside, the dining rooms are also green and yellow (think: Jolly Green Giant, bananas), and customers sit beneath a tiger mural in green chairs […]

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]]> https://bluedotliving.com/unloved-ingredients-find-a-home-in-this-restaurant-kitchen/feed/ 0 Sheep Help Reduce Wildfire Risk in San Francisco Bay Area https://bluedotliving.com/sheep-help-reduce-wildfire-risk-in-san-francisco-bay-area/ https://bluedotliving.com/sheep-help-reduce-wildfire-risk-in-san-francisco-bay-area/#respond Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:44:00 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/?p=12546 BART, the transit agency whose trains connect San Francisco with nearby counties and its main airport, now relies on 500 sheep to munch grass on its properties abutting railroad tracks.

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