I found my new favorite coffee. Organic, fairly traded, and sold by Equal Exchange, this stuff rocks. I have been buying “good” organic coffee from Whole Foods for a while, but this stuff is way better – and cheaper. Strong, but not bitter. If you are a coffee drinker, I recommend you check out [...]
All this talk about the ridiculous new immigration law in Arizona forcing people carry around their “papers” like Nazi Germany got me thinking about something. For all the American bravado and arrogance that Arizona is putting on display, they are forgetting one thing – “we” weren’t here first and “we” were at one time illegal [...]
While seemingly obvious to many people, the idea of spending a few bucks to fix something rather than tossing it in the landfill is losing some appeal in the new era of living throwaway lives. Sometimes I feel as though we are being programmed to think that everything we buy is “single-use” only! That’s why [...]
Dow Chemical, the company behind such atrocities as Agent Orange in Vietnam and major dioxin pollution in cities across the U.S., somehow thought they could sponsor something called the “Live Earth Run For Water” – and no one would notice the hypocrisy. On Sunday, April 18th, Dow Chemical sponsored the Live Earth Run For Water [...]
This picture was taken from space by NASA, and it is of the latest oil slick spreading out and heading towards the coast of Louisiana. The oil is from the exploded and sunken Deepwater Horizon drilling platform, and while officials are trying everything to get the spill under control, the oil is still coming up [...]
If you have (or are soon to have) a child in diapers, remember that there are great alternatives to those big packages of disposable diapers that everyone seems to use. Did you know that almost 20 billion plastic diapers get thrown into landfills each year, and studies estimate that they each can take up [...]
I have been on a real “clean up my food” kick lately, after watching Food Inc. and King Corn and reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, and Eating Animals. I mean, I knew about how our food is being grown and genetically screwed with, and how factory farmed animals [...]
