Today, someone left a pair of glasses on the Altar of Free (more on this later). Lots of people with not-so-perfect eyes have stockpiles of old glasses. I have been guilty of this myself in the past. (I cleaned most of them out in my latest move and avoided adding to this more recently in [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Give the Gift of Sight, Donate Your Used Glasses
Posted in Reduce | Reuse | Recycle, tagged charity, donate, eyeglasses, Give the Gift of Sight, old, recycle, used, vision programs on 2008, April 24 | 1 Comment »
A Visual Quantification of Waste
Posted in Random, tagged art, waste on 2008, April 22 | Leave a Comment »
Cell phones #2, Atlanta 2005 44 x 90″ Powerful images of the sheer volume of waste is captured by photographer Chris Jordan in his series of photographs from 2003-2005 titled Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption.
You Can Never Have Too Many Books, but. . .
Posted in *Home & Garden, Reduce | Reuse | Recycle, tagged book, clutter, deselection, exchange, reduce, swap, trade, weeding on 2008, April 21 | Leave a Comment »
If you can’t fit all of your books onto your shelves, then you have too many books. (Yes, you could get more shelves, but there is still a limit to the number of shelves your space can accommodate.) If this is the case, it is time get rid of some books. Weed your collection and [...]
Green cities: Cambridge and Boston
Posted in Local (Somerville, MA), tagged alternative energy, Boston, Cambridge, composting, food waste, green city rankings, recycling on 2008, April 20 | Leave a Comment »
Back in March, Popular Science released their (not so scientific) list of America’s 50 Greenest Cities. Cambridge was ranked sixth after Portland, San Francisco, Boston, Oakland, and Eugene based on a four category point system on electricity, transportation, green living, and recycling/green perspective. (Boston was ranked seventh by SustainLane’s 2006 Top 10 Greenest Cities of [...]
Origins versus Body Shop, Products for the Face
Posted in *Health & Beauty, Product Reviews, tagged Body Shop, cleanser, face, lotion, moisturizer, Origins, sensitive skin, serum, skin care, toner on 2008, April 19 | Leave a Comment »
I have just taken five steps back from simplifying my life, but it hopefully will have been well worth it. Stopping by the Origins store in Harvard Square on my way back from an appointment, I picked up a full skin care regimen for the face (wash, toner, serum, lotion and scrubber – darn, that’s [...]
