The Home Depot has teamed up with BP Solar to provide solar installation service to customers. It is offering its customers the ability to sign-up online for free, in-home consultations.
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Starting today, tons of table scraps from the Bay Area’s finest restaurants will be turned into clean, renewable energy at a new UC Davis research and technology demonstration facility.
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Wine and hiking blog now fully searchable
Winehiker Witiculture just adopted Google’s new Custom Search tool.
(tags: custom search wine blog hiking bloggers winehiker winehiking google)

Trip Report: China Hole Loop Hike, Henry Coe State Park
The winehiker’s chronicle of a ten-mile canyon and ridgeline keyhole loop at California’s largest state park.
(tags: active adventure animals backcountry backpacking birding birds […]

At long last: the following photoessay has been over a week in arriving, but I blame nobody for my tardiness in posting it but the Hades Inc. Department of Pinched Nerves and Spinal Subluxation, Special Expensive Downtime Division. Thank you, dear reader, for your patient tolerance while I’ve been recuperating from this @#$*! neck thing […]

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, October 25, 2006 – Russ Beebe, author of the Winehiker Witiculture wine and hiking blog and owner of californiawinehikes.com, today announced that his blog is fully searchable for all current and archived content.
“With Google’s Co-op Custom Search Engine, I can now offer my readers a powerful way to find articles they once read […]

Earth View
A view of our Earth from pretty high up. Choose your latitude and longitude, even your satellite!
(tags: satellite earth interactive photography)

HassleMe
Because sometimes in life, you just need to be nagged.
(tags: hassle me cheesy email reminder)

NOVA | PBS
NOVA is the highest rated science series on television and the most watched documentary series on public television.
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18 winehiker points*
I’ve had a bit of a commitment lately. What a pain in the neck it has been. Shoot, if it hadn’t been for a nearly two-week-long bout of pinched nerves in the cervical spine — the recurring detritus of an old diving board injury — I would have helped myself to this lovely […]

Today’s guest author is Walt Ballenberger, founder of Beaux Voyages, which provides active tours in France including bike tours, wine tours, and Tour de France bike tours. He has lived and worked in France and speaks the language fluently.
Some years ago in a book by Lee Iacocca, who was President of Ford Motor Co. […]

I’ve been taking a forced break from blogging over these past few days due to a recurring neck injury. It’s been difficult to hold my head up (without support and Advil) for more than about 2 hours without more pain and fatigue.
So, I’ve been doing the right thing by babying it while I wait for […]

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Read the writing on the wall.
(tags: philosophy pictures photographs wall art)

Franz Kafka’s THE METAMORPHOSIS adapted by Peter Kuper
A dark comic strip with soundtrack.
(tags: cartoon design flash Literature Kafka)

Foods that heal
Notice that potato chips did not make this list. But shoot, neither did chocolate.
(tags: cookbook food health foods natural healing eating fresh Cooking)

Low-Impact Living Initiative
What can […]