Lifestyle

Here are some resolutions that we believe are worth making, and keeping! Here’s our challenge to you:  Pick at least one idea which you are not already practicing and implement the resolution into your daily life!

Yesterday, in newspapers throughout California, a nonprofit innocently named the Center for Consumer Freedom, ran a full page ad emblazoned with the ominous headline: “Your Family’s Grocery List Shouldn’t Include Lead and Bacteria.” Under those words is a picture of a reusable bag, wrapped in yellow caution tape, and some explanatory paragraphs warning consumers about the lead- and bacteria-tainted reusable bags from China.

Remember that old 70's Island saying? You can still find that salutation on a thrift store T-shirt now and then, but...I digress (and this is just the second sentence of the blog entry)...

Where was I? Indeed! Sorry for the couple-week layoff - lotsa work, a birthday and a few stitches to the hand can keep a blogger away - so let's get back to it!

This is a FRIDAY QUICKIE, and it's noteworthy nonetheless - get this: a vacuum cleaner made with beach trash - FUN! (what?)

We recycle; therefore, we are decent citizens of planet Earth, right? Well, sort of …

Ever think about where stuff goes AFTER you toss it into your recycling bin?

Plastics News, a trade magazine, that publishes the current prices of plastics, lists virgin PET pellets between 83 and 85 cents a pound; and recycled PET pellets between 58 to 66 cents a pound.

Not too long ago, on a windy rainy day like today, while city workers were dreading the trip into work, I was out with my bright-green ‘poncho’ taking pictures of the $5 umbrella trail left behind by the crowds of wet commuters after what seemed a fierce battle against the forces of nature. Every corner- trash-receptacle overflowing with black clumps of broken umbrellas that pedestrians had ditched.

1960: Fifty years ago, when President John F.

By Stiv Wilson. As a member of the 5 Gyres team back from an expedition to the Atlantic I'm no stranger to the horrendous fact that plastic is ending up in the marine food chain.

In the beginning of the nineteenth century Danish archaeologist Christian Jürgensen Thomsen devised the ‘three-age system’ as a way to categorize the different periods of human history into consecutive ‘ages’, defined for their respective predominant tool-making materials, hence the stone, bronze and iron ages. Sequentially the Industrial Revolution gave way the ages of Steam and Steel; and while our post industrial epoch is commonly referred to as the Information Age, it could just as easily go by the label: the Plastic Age.