January 2011
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Bag Bans, Yes, but No Plastic? →
Via abitlate: [Photo] Laura Anne Marsden, 21st Century Ruff (recycled plastic bags) I’ve seen the photos of garbage dumps from space, read about the underage landfill pickers, seen the strangled seafowl. I understand the crusade for minimal packaging, since that is trash. I understand the crusade for recyclable plastics. I understand Italy’s plastic bag ban(though I don’t get why it is such...
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A bit late: Bag Bans, Yes, but No Plastic? →
Via abitlate: [Photo] Laura Anne Marsden, 21st Century Ruff (recycled plastic bags) I’ve seen the photos of garbage dumps from space, read about the underage landfill pickers, seen the strangled seafowl. I understand the crusade for minimal packaging, since that is trash. I understand the crusade for recyclable plastics. I understand Italy’s plastic bag ban(though I don’t get why it is such...
Jan 10th
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Jan 7th
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David Pogue on Recycling Gadgets →
Owning outdated technology makes us feel outdated ourselves. Are there solutions? Pogue asks readers about the “two-year itch” of gadget ownership, and gets some worthwhile responses (though you have to read past the halfway mark to reach them.) Food for thought….
Jan 7th
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South Padre Island is the second city in Texas to... →
Jan 7th
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South Padre Island is the second city in Texas to... →
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Jan 6th
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“You ask yourself: Is this thing worth hauling 6,000 miles across an ocean and in...”
– Interesting thought, quoted by Core77 in this item on Tsh Oxenreider’s “Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living.” For Oxenreider, a big move (from Texas to the Middle East) was “a stake in the ground for us…. From that moment forward [we]...
Jan 6th
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“You ask yourself: Is this thing worth hauling 6,000 miles across an ocean and in...”
– Interesting thought, quoted by Core77 in this item on Tsh Oxenreider’s “Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living.” For Oxenreider, a big move (from Texas to the Middle East) was “a stake in the ground for us…. From that moment forward [we]...
Jan 6th
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