The kitties deserve treats for their good behavior.

Also agree about repairing the headphones, make sure you wrap them with electrical tape (yeah – it’s plastic) so that you can reduce the interference. You don’t want to have the wires from each channel rubbing each other — and if it doesn’t work, well…

I had the same thought as Allie on the impact statement. This last weekend I saw countless bags caught on trees and bushes and fences. Here is a favorite example of mine, of a security barrier around a rail yard loaded with plastic bags…
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I can’t believe someone needs to do a study to determine if plastic bags are bad. Can’t they just send some college intern outside to count the ones rolling around like tumbleweeds and stuck up in trees? I mean, there are tons of things that are bad about them, but even the basic facts kind of make the ban a no-brainer.

You can repair your headphone wires the same way you’d repair a lamp wire. Just expose the wire under the plastic and twist together two good bits, cutting out the frayed bits. Then cover the wires with (reused) electric tape.

Who challenged the plastic bag ban?
!#@$U%

You’ve inspired me to look into refillable pens. I haven’t hardly ever bought pens. Hmmm, where did they all come from? Trade shows probably!

Yesterday, I packaged all of my frankincense resin in repurposed plastic bags, labelled as such. I broke down and bought 25 aluminum bottles with pumps because I can’t get larger glass bottles with pumps for shampoos and lotions. I hate buying mined products, but aluminum is so tremendously expensive to produce that it’s almost 100% recycled. Insanely, the pumps were bagged in a ziplock bag, and the bottles came in their own individual plastic bags, inside a double walled cardboard box with dividers! Oy vey! But there’s nothing I can do to minimize the damage. I know that my supplier got them that way from theirs, and they are not going to change their ways just for me. So I reused the plastic bags to package my frankincense drops in. I am freecycling all of the other packaging.

My Green Living Show contest was approved. True or false? 25% of the Earth’s surface is covered in plastic. (True)

Love & RRRevolution, Tracey

I watched the Engineer’s guide to cat care this weekend and found it hilarious! I’m interested in knowing whether cat yodeling is something known to engineer’s cats or if its something FPF could engineer. :)

Also, I get to go on a tour of our local recycling facility, but when I asked if I could bring my camera, they said no. WTF? I’m so disappointed!