Posted in Crochet, Recycling on March 30, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Forget my puny little evening bag. Check out this dress knitted from plastic bags:
By Cathy Kasdan, who is currently finishing up a Master’s in textiles at Kent State University and her thesis is based on consumer culture.
via Craftzine.
The dress is all hand knit from grocery bags that were the result of actual trips to [...]
Posted in Environment on March 30, 2007 | No Comments »
News about my alma mater via the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
Rec center renovation deemed ‘green’
Author: Suzanne Seurattan, Source: W&M News
Date: Mar 27, 2007
The recreation center. By Stephen Salpukas.
The College’s recreation center, which reopened last fall after an extensive renovation and expansion, is the first building on campus to officially [...]
Posted in Environment on March 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
If we could afford it, I just might consider moving there….
via CNN:
San Francisco to outlaw plastic grocery bags
POSTED: 10:40 a.m. EDT, March 28, 2007
San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi hands out canvas shopping bags Tuesday.
Excerpt:
Mirkarimi said the ban would save 450,000 gallons of oil a year and remove the need to send 1,400 tons of debris [...]
Posted in Environment, Recycling on March 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Who knew there was so much interest in trash? I saw a recommendation in No Impact Man’s blog this morning for Garbage Land and when I clicked on the link, I started a cascade of surfing on Amazon that revealed no fewer than 10 books on the subject:
Fat of the Land: The Garbage Of [...]
Posted in Crochet, Environment, Urban Nature on March 27, 2007 | 12 Comments »
I finished the evening bag crocheted from newspaper condoms from the New York Times and Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It came out pretty nicely, only problem is it didn’t use nearly enough bags and they come in at a rate of 2-4 per day!
Plastic bag craft is kind of an interesting genre. There are some really [...]
Posted in Environment on March 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I just found a terrific blog on Coffee and Conservation. We have an ongoing dispute at home over the earth-friendliness/social responsibility of the coffee we buy. I finally got my hubby to quit the Maxwell House habit (cheap!) and now we are buying whole beans from Peets (not my first choice). He [...]
Posted in Environment, Urban Nature on March 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I just joined the Blogger Bioblitz, initiated by Jeremy Bruno at ScienceBlogs. As Jeremy puts it:
In honor of National Wildlife Week, April 21 - 29, I am inviting bloggers from all walks to participate in the First Annual Blogger Bioblitz, where bloggers from across the country will choose a wild or not-so-wild area and [...]
Posted in Environment on March 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
These days, it sometimes seems as though “environment” = “global warming” as if human-released carbon in the atmosphere were the only issue we needed to worry about. So, we buy some carbon-offsets for our cars, airplane trips, home heating and cooling and we’ve done our part, right?
What happened to the other environmental issues [...]
Posted in Environment on March 22, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Comic by Stephanie McMillan
On being the change I wish to see in the world
These days, I’m definitely Bannabelle. And many other people are too (just to mention a few in the blogosphere: No Impact Man, Green as a Thistle, Greentime). Don’t get me wrong. I strongly believe that individual responsibility and taking [...]
Posted in Environment on March 22, 2007 | No Comments »
photo by Vicki and Chuck Rogers
Today is World Water Day:
World Water Day is an international day of observance and action to draw attention to the plight of the more than 1 billion people world wide that lack access to clean, safe drinking water. Celebrated since 1993, World Water Day was designated in 1992 when the [...]
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