Give a little slice of history to your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day while also being more sustainable than sustainable — by going vintage.
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My Beautiful Ugly Packaging
A lot of companies want to sell businesses on so-called “sustainable packaging.” But is it true? Usually not.
Hurricane Harvey, We Yawn in Your Direction
Americans are good on the “thoughts and prayers” thing. Also not so bad about digging in for the 10-buck donation. But otherwise, we don’t really care. Really.
Junk thought
Human life is messy, and human beings even more so. Working out our “stuff” together is no easy feat. And it’s made no easier by the flood of all kinds of information into our minds, too much of which pollutes our internal lives rather than edifying our personal existence. The powerful tsunami of junk info […]
Capturing embodied energy
Have you ever heard the term “embodied energy?” It refers to energy that has already been spent to create something. Take a box of cereal as an everyday example. Embodied energy is everywhere Inside the box there’s cereal. The embodied energy in the cereal contains everything from the sunlight and water (energy) that fed and […]
Road trip
Summer’s here and the livin’ is easy. Well anyway, summer’s almost here. And what that means for lots of folks are day and weekend trips to nearby haunts. If you’re planning either a road trip or to get to your vacay destination by car, you’re probably still looking at your overall expenses. Gas, tolls and […]