As of late, I have become obsessed with collecting reusable shopping bags. I buy one wherever I shop, whether I come into the store with one or not. I simply can’t help myself. I intend to give them as Christmas presents to my office mates this year; that way I kill two birds with one stone. I am being price conscious and hopefully helping individuals in my life be more environmentally conscious.
This weekend I will be on my way to Whole Foods to buy the new bag they have teamed up with Cheryl Crowe to design.
“I am a big believer in doing what you can, even if it’s something as small as reducing the amount of plastic we each use daily that ends up in landfills, whether it is plastic bags, water bottles or product packaging. I’m so happy to be working with Whole Foods Market on this project,” said Sheryl Crow.
As a matter of fact, they have designed the bag in two sizes…awesome!
This limited edition bag, which features a collection of beautiful earth tones, is made from 80 percent post-consumer recycled plastic bottles and will be available from Oct. 15 through the holiday season. Each bag represents approximately four 20-ounce plastic bottles. The Company is offering two sizes for the first time: large (14 x 15.5 x and small (9.5 x 12 x 7.5) which retail for an unbeatable 99 cents and 79 cents, respectively.
Most of the bags from your local grocers or drugstore are very inexpensive at 99¢, but there are more expensive bags that are great. Here is a list:
These are just a few of my favorites, there are many others to choose from; Lands End has a great canvass bag that would be a great reusable grocery bag.
Heather Armstrong over at dooce tells it like it is regarding Sarah Palin and the GOP.
I think Women all over this country are letting Sarah know (in a non-sexist way) that letting yourself and your family be used by the GOP is shameful. She needs to really think about what it means to put Country First and not your political ambitions. Also, belittling Barack in her speech just made her look mean and desperate in my eyes and not very knowledgeable about the issues concerning this country.
“What does it say about the journalists of this country when the BEST journalist is the “fake” one? Jon Stewart is the only non-biased “newscaster” out there, and perhaps the smartest as well.” — from HuffPo comments
It amazes me, how the hell do these people sleep at night?
Why the media should apologize
By: Roger Simon; September 4, 2008 10:50 AM EST
ST. PAUL, Minn. — On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.
On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.
We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked.
We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?
We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice?
Bad questions. Bad media. Bad.
We should never have strayed into the other stuff. Like when The Washington Post recently wrote: “Palin is under investigation by a bipartisan state legislative body. … Palin had promised to cooperate with the legislative inquiry, but this week she hired a lawyer to fight to move the case to the jurisdiction of the state personnel board, which Palin appoints.”
Why go there? What trees does that plant?
Fourth, we should stop making with all the questions already. She gave a really good speech. And why go beyond that? As we all know, speeches cannot be written by others and rehearsed for days. They are true windows to the soul.
Unless they are delivered by Barack Obama, that is. In which case, as Palin said Wednesday, speeches are just a “cloud of rhetoric.”
There is something so wrong going on here. The Republicans and Fox News are trying to make the impending marriage between Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston and how the Republicans are exploiting them okay. They are going to parade these children out to the nation like pieces of meat and Sarah Palin is willing to do that to her daughter. What kind of parent is she to take such a private matter (regardless of what the media wants) and exploit her child in this way. And what the hell is her father doing about this travesty.
Now let’s put a bit of reality on this scab: It’s The Economy Stupid!
If these were normal teenagers (not a Governor’s daughter) they couldn’t afford health care or even to buy groceries, he would probably be a blue collar worker, so his job more than likely is going overseas; and next year when he turns 18 I see Iraq in his future. They are still in high school and one or both of them would have to drop out of school in order to work and take care of the baby they are about to bring into the world.
They are only 17, and I know some adults who can’t handle the responsibilities about to be thrown on these kids. It’s a difficult situation for any family and these knuckleheads are making it worse by playing it out on a national stage.
I would not let my baby be subjected to this kind of relentless scrutiny and trust me, it will be relentless.
In an effort to be greener we recycle. We started out using plastic bags for the recycling and that began to be a serious annoyance. We were surrounded in the kitchen with these little plastic bags full of recycling. I thought, we have got to do something about this to make it easier. Low and behold, my town took the first step; I awoke one morning to find that the city had given each residence a trash receptacle dedicated to recycling. I thought this is awesome, go my town! Woohoo!
Now for my part; I started looking for a garbage can with dedicated compartments and I found one that works well for my home.
Arianna is right!. I thought we were Americans all the time and not just during a natural disaster or a political party convention. Republicans are showing their true colors. I am a proud American all day every day, not just when it’s convenient.
Republicans run on the “We are the real Americans” gravy train but they have shown me that maybe their party and idealogy mean more to them than this country. McCain didn’t put country first when he chose Sara Palin for VP, he put party and winning first and that is just not a candidate I can believe in.
Don’t let me catch you on the street wearing an Obama-Biden t-shirt if you are not registered to vote. So get registered and on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 help make this an historic landslide victory for our country.
Click on the graphic below and it will lead you to VoteforChange.org where you can do several things:
As of late, I have become obsessed with collecting reusable shopping bags. I buy one wherever I shop, whether I come into the store with one or not. I simply can’t help myself. I intend to give them as Christmas presents to my office mates this year; that way I kill two birds with one stone. I am being price conscious and hopefully helping individuals in my life be more environmentally conscious
.and small (9.5 x 12 x 7.5) which retail for an unbeatable 99 cents and 79 cents, respectively.
