Well, its coming up on two months of not buying new this weekend. Overall its been pretty easy, but I’ve slipped up a couple of times. Mostly in regards to biking — some parts here & there, the Xtracycle. Also had one relapse to Target and bought a few kid’s books [...]
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Off the subject, but this is so sad:
A bear whose head was stuck in a plastic food jar was photographed near an entrance to Itasca State Park on July 22 by Adam Guy, a state park naturalist intern. The bear was shot and killed near Frazee on Saturday.
The wanderings of a black bear [...]
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The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters
Named as one of Fast Company’s “Fast 50″ innovators whose achievements have helped to change society, and a “top newsmaker” by Newsweek magazine, bestselling author, architect and cultural visionary Sarah Susanka is leading a movement that is redefining the American home.
Her “build better, not [...]
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Yes you can’t even buy a freaking pie without it being encased in a huge clam of plastic. It already comes in a tin plate for crying out loud – why do you need to suffocate it? You can’t recycle that stuff either. I’ve got a bag of that kind of stuff [...]
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photo: Kang Kim for TIME
This week’s time magazine has a very good article about a woman who has taken on an experiment, much like ours, to eradicate plastic from her life. Not an easy task.
This article an interesting and scarey look into how much plastics has become an unavoidable part of our lives. READ THE [...]
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Whoo hoo! Got my xtracycle rigged up yesterday! We took it for a spin – me on back. Its awesome! Need to come up with a contraption for Oscar now. Here he is looking nervous:
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That Citroen car is sweet!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/business/worldbusiness/09greencar.html
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Just returned from a 4th of July trip to Missouri. We stayed with friends on their 92 acre blueberry farm. Stopped at a junk store and scoped garage sales in search of backyard chairs and a small table for the yard.
I can say this shift of buying nothing new does change a mindset in so [...]
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So I’ve coasting along. Its already July 10 – summer is flying by as always. Still hanging in there with the nothing new challenge. I need to get two house warming gifts and a baby gift. I should be able to come up with something handmade, but not feeling overly inspired at [...]
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So. I really, really want to be able to bring my dog to work with me again. He was our office dog but since I’ve been biking, he has been completely dejected. I tried him in the kid’s Burly, but it was designed for kids and his head was smushed when he stood up. He [...]
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