Archive for May, 2009

May 31, 2009

Debbie in Iowa: the first week’s tally

About me: I’m 50 plus a few years and live alone in an apartment near downtown in a college town in southeastern Iowa with my little dog and cat. I’ve been trying to cut down on plastic for a couple of years now, but with only a half-assed commitment to it. My town has an [...]

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May 19, 2009

Laura in U.K.: Week 1

Firstly, some background about me. I’m a student in Oxford, in the UK, and I rent a single room from my college in a big house with 10 other people, who frustrate me immensely by seemingly being unable to recycle anything at all, even when they walk right past the recycling bin to their car. [...]

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