Nicole Konen

While most people think fruits and veggies when they hear anything about buying local, there are plenty of cow, pig and chicken farmers here in the cornhusker state. Show your local farmer some love and check out a supplier near you. Here's a convenient roundup of everything local in Lincoln, Nebraska, from Buy Fresh, Buy Local newspaper.   Meat, fish, poultry & eggs   A-(Bar) Ranch Contact: Mary Lou Block (308-537-7538) Gothenburg, NE Read this blog

If you haven't shopped at a thrift store lately, I think it's time you give it a try. There are plenty of good reasons to start. You can feel good knowing that with each purchase you are: Buying clothes that would otherwise be trashed. You're keeping clothes out of landfills! Read this blog

I was planning to visit several organic/whole/local grocery stores last week in order to review them and post them here on MNN. But on the day I wanted to go, my boyfriend got a call that he had gotten the job he'd been wanting for weeks, so we had to celebrate. We went to Pepe's in the Havelock district and parked across the street. I was surprised at how out of the way the place was. If you weren't looking for Pepe's, you'd probably miss it.   Read this blog

These videos I found on YouTube tie together a lot of environmental conservation concepts with exponential function. The professor in the videos, Dr. Albert Bartlett, discusses the nature of doubling time and how population growth and the diminishing of finite resources seems to almost sneak up on us. After watching it, I wonder, is choosing not to have children the ultimate act of conservation? I mean, we can recycle, and even tell our children to recycle, reduce and reuse, but I don't think that will be enough in the long term. Read this blog