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Peter

Roslindale, MA
Member since 05/20/2008
Last login: 10/20/2008

Knowledge

Gardening, Gardening, Gardening, Grilling, Kids, Izzit

Interests

Human Rights, Sports, Alternative Energy, Alternative Energy, Sports, Kids

Confusions

Genetically Modified Food

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Irritants

Astroturfing, Cycling Unfriendly Drivers

Hero

That's easy: Pedro. No matter how old I live to be, Pedro will always be my hero...

I visit IzzitGreen because

Knowing if it's green is pretty darn important to me

I would do anything for green, but I won't

Go freegan

Last person on Earth to go green will be

Dick Cheney and all his sycophants

My favorite place in the whole wide world is

On a mountain, skiing with my kids...nothing beats it.

If my life were a movie/book/TV show/song

It'd be unreadable

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May 25, 2008

Lincoln Street Coffee

15 Lincoln St , Newton Highlands, MA, 617-244-1600

First things first - IzzitGreen.com may not exist if Lincoln Street Coffee wasn't such a warm, welcoming and exceptional coffee shop.

You see, the Izzit lives right upstairs from Lincoln Street Coffee - and Peter (the proprietor) and his team have always been there to provide us with the single most important ingredient in startup soup: caffeine!

Thankfully, most of the caffeine has been delivered in the form of fairtrade coffee and organic teas! Peter even lets us take his prized stoneware mugs upstairs to the office on the occasions we forget our own.

May 22, 2008

SOLERA

12 Corinth St , Roslindale, MA, 617-469-4005

Great boutique wine shop in the Rozzie Village...errrrr....Square. I've lived in Rozzie for years, and this I know - it'll always be called Rozzie Square. But the wine boutique fits right in just the same.

May 26, 2008

FORNAX BREAD COMPANY

27 Corinth St , Roslindale, MA, 866-441-8591

The grilled chicken sandwich at Fornax is my favorite sandwich in Boston. I could eat it everyday! My wife, kids and friends tell me their other sandwiches, soups, salads and pizzas are great too, but unfortunately my love affair with the chicken sandwich has made me forget the menu...someday I'll expand my horizons but for now I'm all chicken all the time.

May 22, 2008

VILLAGE BOOKS

751 South St , Roslindale, MA, 617-325-1994

It's a tiny little bookstore in Rozzie Square - but they always seem to have another great find for me. And what more can you ask for from a book store.

Village Books makes the most of their small space, by filling every nook and cranny with good titles - for adults and kids alike. The proprietors are super nice, active in the square community, and always have great recommendations.

May 26, 2008

ALLANDALE FARM

259 Allandale Rd , Chestnut Hill, MA, 617-524-1531

Allandale Farm promises to be brilliant - and then never quite delivers on its potential. Don't get me wrong, the fact that this cool little farm stand-slash-flower nursery-slash-gourmet food store is directly behind the Faulkner Hospital in West Roxbury, and a stone's throw from the Arboretum is pretty darn sweet. And the overall vibe of Allandale is cool and idyllic.

May 26, 2008

PIZZERIA REGINA

11 Thacher St , Boston, MA, 617-227-0765

When you eat at Regina's, you know you're going to get great pizza, a gruff waitress, and the hairy eyeball if you linger too long - and it all gets served in a room that hasn't been renovated in a very VERY long time. Regina's is what it is - and on most nights, what it is is an exceptionally good pizza joint.

August 21, 2008

THE DOGWOOD CAFE

3712 Washington St , Jamaica Plain, MA, 617-522-7997

The Dogwood is a great place for burgers, wood-fired pizza, salads, pasta and a few beers. The food is good (not great, but good), the vibe is cozy and fun, and the waitstaff is terrific.

May 22, 2008

West On Centre

1734 Centre St , West Roxbury, MA, 617-323-4199

I live right around the corner from West and go there more than any other restaurant - I dig it and it's my go-to joint.

The reason is simple - West is great for a burger at the bar, for a nice dinner with friends, and even a great spot to take our two little men. West just seems to have perfected recipe for a great neighborhood spot - and West Roxbury needed one!

May 26, 2008

BAKERS BEST CAFE

27 Lincoln St , Newton Highlands, MA, 617-332-4588

Bakers Best is a cafeteria-style restaurant with a Whole Foods vibe - and it comes with all...errr most....of the accompaniments of the vibe. The food is fresh, well prepared, tasty and well conceived - my favorite menu items are their Athena Chicken and Thai Chicken Wraps...great stuff!

But there's a hitch - in the same way Whole Foods has earned the nickname 'Whole Paycheck', Baker's Best seemingly deserves to add an N to their name....Banker's Best. Because it pretty pricey for what you get, Newton Highlands or not.

July 21, 2008

EL PELON TAQUIERIA

96 Peterborough St , Boston, MA, 617-262-9090

El Pelon is a pretty brilliant cheap eats alternative to most other choices in and around Fenway. On a nice night, you can sit out on the sidewalk and gorge on tacos, enchiladas and burritos that rival anywhere in Boston.

All of the ingredients seem fresh and their sauces and salsas are spicy and unique. I dig it.

We all live near the depot...

Submitted by Peter on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 17:06.

The most amazing part of the Times article is this: Home Depot’s program, which will accept any maker’s bulbs, will bring relatively convenient recycling within reach of most households. Mr. Jarvis estimated that 75 percent of the nation’s homes are within 10 miles of a Home Depot. 75% within 10 miles of a Home Depot! And I thought that old stat about 90% of Canadians living within 100 miles of the border was amazing...

Series of Tubes Strikes Again!

Submitted by Peter on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 13:58.

Seriously...the tubes have always confounded the government... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE

SF Should Honor Cheney

Submitted by Peter on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 13:47.

By renaming Jepson Prairie Organics something more patriotic like 'The Cheney Compost Heap'. That way, they'd be honoring both our President and Veep in similar ways. After all, the city is planning to rename the sewage treatment plant after W...for real... SF Ballot: George W. Bush Sweage Treatment Plant

Sox Crush Yanks in this game too...

Submitted by Peter on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 10:44.

If you happen to stumble upon any of ESPN or Fox's coverage of tonight's MLB AllStar game, you may...MAY be reminded that this is 'the last year of the great shrine to baseball' that is Yankee Stadium. Maybe even more than once... And you may even be told about there uber amazing $700Trillion dollar shrine to the Boss being built next door that the Yanks will live in starting next season. This MAY make your stomach turn - especially if Tim McCarver says it. So here's some good non-green news about the that'll calm that stomach of yours right down. From the NYTimes: Green Thievery in the South Bronx The Yankees took more than 20 acres of contiguous parkland — from Macombs Dam and John Mullaly Parks — to build a new stadium adjacent to the original one. Hundreds of mature trees were felled, and even though thousands of new ones have been planted, the area feels like the construction zone it is. State and federal law requires creation of equal or similar amounts of parkland when acres are given up for nonpublic purpose. But the city, which is paying for the new green spaces, is moving too slowly. So while the Sox are busy greening up the ol' monster - the evil empire is doing what it does best: going big. Big stands of trees torn down Big carbon feetprints Big noise... Thanks Boss. Keep up the good work - maybe you could improve the team's green cred by going with organic cotton uniforms!

Unfortunately....

Submitted by Peter on Wed, 07/16/2008 - 08:36.

Yankee fans ruined it for the American League by spewing countless volumes of CO2 into the atmosphere while they booed everyone from Pap and his pregnant wife to Manny, Youk, Dustin, JD and even non-Sox like Chase Utley and Billy Wagner...

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July 16, 2008