that's my bag baby

My friend Rachel gave me these a few months back, and I regularly use them now at the co-op and at Harris Teeter. In case you have been living under a rock, those little plastic numbers at the grocery take about 1000 years to degrade, and are a serious hazard to wildlife and the earths soil and seas. $5 each Chico Bags, as homely as it may seem to take them to the store, are a good option. Lots of the grocery chains sell their own bags now too, look for those if the Chico's are not your style.

guide on how to recycle everything

Found this on the Lime site, which is a great find for anyone environmentall minded. From areosol cans to toothbrushes, this is a sweet directory on where to recycle everything you never thought you could...

http://www.lime.com/features/limes_guide_to_recycling

green threads

Cool new organic clothing line I saw an ad for in Rolling Stone Mag.

They are out of Cali and have skate, surf and snow gear.

plug in

I watched Who Killed The Electric Car tonight, a documentary on the theories of who outed the plug n' drive machines born in the mid-90's by GM. This is a film, like An Inconvenient Truth, that everyone needs to watch. The gov., fuel companies (not you Erwin, the major corps) and automakers are some shady suckers. Narrated by Martin Sheen, some commentary from Ralph Nadar.

midnight riders

Some close friends and I took our buddy Dave to the New Orleans Jazzfest a few weeks ago for his bachelor party. This was all a virgin trip for us, we had never been, but did meet up with Major and some of his crew, who have gone for years. Needless to say, we had a great time. Drank too much, stayed up way too late, and saw some incredible live music. ZZ Top, Better than Ezra and the Allman Bros. to name a few. Greg Allman had Warren Haynes (Govt. Mule) and Derrick Trucks on stage with him. One of the best shows I have ever seen.

The city is still in bad shape, lots of empty buildings and condemned homes. The event had to be good for the community, bringing in some revenue for the area. I plan on spending some more of my $ down there in years to come.

an inconvenient truth

Watched this movie tonight...it is something EVERYONE needs to see. I have a much better understanding of global warming, and new respect for Al Gore and the fight he is leading.

saving more than trees

Read today that if every household in the U.S. replaced just one pack of 400 sheet virgin toilet tissue with a recycled one, we could save 1,450,000 trees, 3.7 million ubic feet of landfill equal to 5,500 garbage trucks, 523 millon gallons of water and avoid 89,000 pounds of pollution.

My next pack of tissue will be coming from Seventh Generation...I just purchased their dish detergent and soap last week. Good stuff.

g'trip mate!

My brother just returned from a abso-bloody-lutely fun trip across the world...a weeks visit at the Australian Tennis Open..most of which was paid for by his very generous bossman. He had a great time and posted some great notes, experiences, videos and pics throughout the week on his own blog.

He did not see anyone throw any shrimp on any barbee, but he saw plenty...Onya!