Archive for May, 2010

Could California be the First State to Ban Plastic Bags?

06/02/2010 Update: The Bag Ban bill (AB 1998) passed the Assembly this week! Next up, the senate and then the governator’s desk. I’m pissed off. I live in a city, like many others in California, that wants to ban plastic shopping bags, but we can’t. Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, and other California [...]

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The Joy of Being a Green Kid

Check out what high school students like Jordan Howard, Rudy Sanchez, and Lindsay Williams can teach us about protecting the environment and living joyful lives.

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We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Plastic Thing in the Middle of the Pizza

Just say no to those little plastic pizza savers. Is saving a little bit of cheese more important than saving the environment?

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Hey man, got any more red pills?

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Three years [...]

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ReFUSE Challenge & The Art of Eating In book giveaway

Take the ReFUSE challenge for a chance to win the book The Art of Eating In. Refuse unnecessary restaurant packaging, plastic bags, plastic bottles, etc.

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Plastic Lives Forever

Wow. Watch this heartbreaking video about our plastic legacy, set to Queen’s Who Wants To Live Forever. Many of the images will be familiar, but it also contains haunting footage I’d never seen before.   How does this make you feel? (via Plastic Manners.  If you are reading this via email, you will need to click [...]

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How To Store Produce Without Plastic

Plastic-Free ways to store produce. Link to useful list from the Berkeley Ecology Center.

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Environmental Film Leads to Anger Eating

What do you do when you have to sit through a very stressful film about how corporate America is destroying the planet, and the screening takes place in a night club so everyone else has a drink in their hand to take the edge off, and you’re trying to keep it together with a glass [...]

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Plastic-Free Living Discussion, Part 3

Plastic-Free Living Discussion covering pantyhose alternatives, bulk foods packaging, plastic kids’ toys, plastic-free fishing bait, and other fun stuff.

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Holy chocolate covered almonds, Batman!

They’re plastic-free (Whole Foods bulk bin), meat-free, and at the rate I’m eating them, I should be three sizes bigger by this summer. (That jar was full a week ago.) This is the opposite of conscious eating, I think. Not beating myself up. My addictions are doing a good enough job of that already. Just [...]

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