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Story Archives of 'Lifestyle'
Nashua Adult Learning Center
By Deborah Schachter on Saturday, November 28, 2009.Mr. Olocho came to the U.S. from Kenya after receiving a green card through the immigration lottery. The Nashua Adult Learning Center helped him prepare for and achieve his U.S. high school equivalency degree.
Charitable Giving in Tight Times
By Dan Gorenstein on Friday, November 20, 2009.People in philanthropy expect charitable contributions to drop this year.
If it does, it will be the first time in the past 50 years that individual giving will fall in two consecutive years.
But New Hampshire Public Radio’s Dan Gorenstein spoke with several people who are bucking the trend.
Adopt-a-Park: A Plan for New Hampshire State Parks
By Rick Ganley on Thursday, November 19, 2009.New Hampshire has 71 state parks. It's the nation's only self-funded park system, and it's operating at a loss. That leaves many smaller, lesser-known parks with little care and oversight.
State Representative Jeffrey St Cyr, a Republican from Alton, thinks he has a solution. He's proposing legislation to form an adopt-a-park program. He talked with Morning Edition Host Rick Ganley.
Pecan Pie and Community
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.
In the rural town of Greensboro, Alabama, a group of designers is hard at work, baking pies. Three full-time volunteers run an innovative experiment called PieLab: part design studio and part pie shop.
Local residents come in for a thick slice of chocolate peanut butter banana cream or good old sweet potato pie. Then they sit and talk about issues facing their community. The designers hear their challenges and work with them on finding solutions.
It’s an idea that appealed to our curiosity and our stomachs, so we called them up to find out more. Joining us is Amanda Buck, one of the designers and bakers at PieLab.
Fast Company: PieLab in Rural Alabama Serves Up Community, Understanding, and, Yes, Pie
Read Amanda's recipe for fig, goat cheese and honey pie in a lemon crust
PieLab Promo from Project M on Vimeo.
(Photo courtesy of PieLab)
Temperature & Temperament
By Martha Poole on Friday, November 13, 2009.
In common vernacular, a “warm person” is someone who is open, amiable. A new study gives a more literal meaning to the term. The study suggests that temperature actually affects peoples' sense of judgment.
Needle and Conductive Thread
By Jen Nathan on Thursday, November 12, 2009.
The Do-It-Yourself movement has brought yarn into the hands of hip young people across the country. Now DIY-ers are ready for the next step: putting down their knitting needles and picking up soldering irons. Word of Mouth’s Jen Nathan brings us to Austin, Texas to explore the evolving trend of tech crafting.
(Photo by Premshree Pillai via Flickr/Creative Commons)
International Day of Corduroy
By Jen Nathan on Wednesday, November 11, 2009.
Swish, swish! November 11th is the official day to honor our favorite fall fabric: corduroy. The elementary school staple gets its due each year on 11/11 (the day that most resembles the material).
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal
By Abby Goldstein on Tuesday, November 10, 2009.Nearly a billion people are considered hungry, and yet every year, millions of tons of food gets wasted. Author Tristram Stuart says this waste not only adds to the problem of world hunger, but is bad for the land, aids in global warming and costs more for the farmers and manufacturers. We’ll look at the effects of food waste and what could be done about it.
Guests
- Tristram Stuart, author of Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal
What's Becoming Obsolete?
By Virginia Prescott on Monday, November 9, 2009.Pity the poor maligned typewriter. It was once the axis of a writer’s life. Hemingway packed up his portable Royal in its well-worn leather case and dragged it to Cuba because he couldn’t writewithout it. In the 1960s, school children practiced speed typing on sturdy Underwoods and adults pushed down shiny black keys whenever they wrote an important letter.
Today typewriters collect dust on thrift shop shelves alongside rotary phones, cassette tapes and Rolodexes. These once ubiquitous objects join the ranks of dozens of outdated items and rituals, from the boom box to airport goodbyes, that journalist and social commentator Anna Jane Grossman has amassed. Grossman’s new book is Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By. She joins us talk about her compendium of once essential, now archaic staples of American life.
(Photo by Ricardo Mendonça Ferreira via Flickr/Creative Commons)
The Truly Smart City
By Laura Sheeter on Monday, November 2, 2009.
For urban dwellers, the question of how well you know your city is quickly being replaced with the question of how well does your city know you? Transportation systems can track your comings and goings, utility companies know your usage patterns and banks know what you spend and when. Does that make for a city of dreams, or a nightmare?
