I signed up for Wardrobe Refashion last month and to-date have not purchased anything new.  Which is the glass half-full part.  However, I also haven't "refashioned" anything either despite intentions to the contrary.  Half-empty!

This is my call-myself-out task list I am planning:
- revamp '80s cinch belt to have a non-'80s looking buckle
- make 2-3 ( Read more... )

I don't know why it's taken me so long to watch The Corporation, but it has.  Not only to get it on my library list but then it's been in my apartment for 3 weeks without viewing.  Now that I owe $14 to the library, I'm watching it!  (I reconcile this by figuring out that when I rent from video stores I end up paying $9 total almost every time ( Read more... )

Other internetty points of interest today:

Elizabeth Warren points fingers at shady mortgage brokers giving people subprime mortgages when they could have gotten lower fixed rates -- essentially blaming them for at least part of the subprime financial mess the market is in.  Oh, and she's gotten tons of hate mail for this article according to The ( Read more... )

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Turns out less red meat makes a big environmental difference.

I mean, every vegan has been saying this forever so I don't expect it to be taken any more seriously coming from Treehugger! Or Reuters. Or New Scientist. Or The Guardian.

I, too, thought that other things used more energy than buildings. Surprise!

Thanks to this post I have talked myself our of a bob or a shortie cut for about the 5th time since April. I am so tired of tiny-tail and bobby pins though. So tired.

Anyway, the real point of this post is to bring you a little link from Wife Swap. Never have I been so conflicted during watching Wife Swap before. Usually there is a pretty good ( Read more... )

If you hadn't heard already.

EDITED:
Newer piece saying it's only going up 10% next year instead. Shitty but better news.

(Still) Boo!

Ecover tests on water fleas and rabbit blood.

I usually use Ecover for dishes, Dr. Bronner's, white vinegar/water and baking soda for all else.

Yet another case of know your farmer and how agribusiness is going to strangle organic and "free-range" posthaste. One of the greenie blogs recently posted Phil Howard's Organic Industry Agribusiness Acquisitions and Introductions flow map, showing just who has their hands in which organic/health food smaller companies. Grub (the book) also did ( Read more... )