Image via Wikipedia I’ve been trying to avoid talking about the struggling world economy, because I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about. It’s a big picture thing requiring lots of ≈ and weird things meaning coefficients, with € ¥¢ and $ mixed in between. However, on a small level I can talk about [...]
01.14.2009
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Image via Wikipedia I have this recurring daydream/fantasy nightmare: I have achieved my dream of establishing a perfumery in the Warehouse district in Minneapolis, and for whatever reason I’m out front working in the retail section of my fantasy shop (I suppose that I’m a kindhearted perfume overlord and would actually give my minions the [...]
01.13.2009
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I read a letter in the December/January issue of Fast Company complaining about the “over coverage” of environmental technology startups and company greening techniques. The author of the letter likened it to “more of a Fast Hippie than a Fast Company experience.” Admittedly, the coverage of environmental technology there is obvious, but the reason for [...]
01.07.2009
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There’s already some buzz starting about the book Handmade Nation, which is intended as a companion piece to an independent documentary on the same subject. A few of us remember the Handmade Nation blog, and now all their work has come to fruition. It’s getting some very positive response already – so picking up a [...]
01.06.2009
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Image via Wikipedia With the good news that stevia now has FDA approval, there’s a lot more healthfood and coop shoppers looking for ways to make it useful in their own lives. I’m sometimes amused by people that think they “know” stevia, having bought the little sugar packets or tinctures – only to find that [...]
01.01.2009
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If you made it a resolution to be more green in 2009 and were not thinking of body paint when you said it, you might be interested in the Do Not Mail List movement. Run by the organization Forest Ethics, this group wants to give US consumers the same opt-out rights in the mail that [...]
