Archive for the ‘Waste’ Category
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
So I want to keep the blog going, but don't currently have time to update it as much as I would like. Why can't I do a "best of" week?
Originally appeared Jan. 17, 2008 as "Trash Talk"
It’s time to talk about garbage. Why not? If you’re an average American, you ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Meet the eco-chocolate.
Not only is it yummy and have neat tips on the wrapper, but it can assuage your environmental guilt. Why? This choco-tastic candystuff - brought to you by TerraPass, Whole Foods Market and Bloomsberry and Co. - comes with a verified TerraPass carbon offset for the average human's daily carbon ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
That's not a clever title. There's a disposable video camera out there.
I first saw it a few weeks ago at my local CVS. That's a chain of drug stores for those of you outside Chicago.
According to this CNN.com article, CVS unveiled the disposable, single-use video camera in summer 2005. I ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
I once bought a used book at Myopic in Chicago. Don't ask me what book it was - too nerdy to admit.
Inside the book was a Post-It Note (brand name ownership example #1) with a phone number for a man named Noel who lived in England.
How cool is that? You ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
A brief diversion from the usual topic today.
The National Catholic Reporter did a story on nuns going green.
Hmmm. I wonder where they got that idea?
Dang religion reporters ripped me off.
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Sorry about the infrequent blog postings this week. Apparently, the neighbor I've been stealing Wi-Fi from has gotten a little sneakier about keeping me out. I'll win in the end. Oh yes, I will.
Today is the Super Bowl and it would be an understatement to say that it's linked with ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
It's a great Woody Allen joke:
"Have you ever taken a serious political stance on anything?"
"Yes. For 24 hours once I refused to eat grapes."
Granted, that quote from the 1973 film Sleeper would have been a little more morally upstanding had it not come on the heels of Cesar Chavez's Great ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.
Yeah, that's four links to the same thing. Who cares? It's awesome.
The links are to BigBoxReuse.com, a project documenting what becomes of those megastore and big box companies that swore, swore, swore to municipal planning officials that the stores would be bringing in jobs and sales tax ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
They say that by the time a spirit is named, it's dead. And by "they," I mean that guy who wrote that in a comic book I remember reading once.
For some reason, that line sprung to mind when I read this article about the band Gruk. I've never heard of ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
I called him. He called me. I forgot to call him. He forgot to call me. It just never worked out.
But now, after all this silliness, I finally have my interview with Brandon McCormick, director of Consumerism! The Musical, the first anticonsumer satire I've seen in years that hasn't made ...
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