http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/04/01/how-the-other-half-lives/ Crafting the Super-Natural Life Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:25:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/04/01/how-the-other-half-lives/#comment-320 The Worsted Witch » Build it Green Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:31:16 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=138#comment-320 [...] This is community action at its some of its best. Pure genius! I wish I had known about this ahead of time because we’ve already made plans for tomorrow (including stopping by Earth Day New York), but dude, I TOTALLY signed up for their volunteer mailing list. I strongly feel that green housing should not be a privilege, but a basic human right, and we need to find a way to build healthy communities cost-effectively, especially in low-income neighborhoods. (The use of toxic PVC materials is widespread in the construction industry—including Habitat for Humanity—because of its affordability. But no matter how you spin it, it’s still class discrimination.) For the rest of us, a nonprofit store like this is a great way to build without contributing anything new to the waste stream, so this is one of those rare occasions where I tell you to GO NUTS SHOPPING. [...] [...] This is community action at its some of its best. Pure genius! I wish I had known about this ahead of time because we’ve already made plans for tomorrow (including stopping by Earth Day New York), but dude, I TOTALLY signed up for their volunteer mailing list. I strongly feel that green housing should not be a privilege, but a basic human right, and we need to find a way to build healthy communities cost-effectively, especially in low-income neighborhoods. (The use of toxic PVC materials is widespread in the construction industry—including Habitat for Humanity—because of its affordability. But no matter how you spin it, it’s still class discrimination.) For the rest of us, a nonprofit store like this is a great way to build without contributing anything new to the waste stream, so this is one of those rare occasions where I tell you to GO NUTS SHOPPING. [...]

]]> http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/04/01/how-the-other-half-lives/#comment-281 The Worsted Witch » This Landfill Was Made For You And Me Thu, 06 Apr 2006 17:55:10 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=138#comment-281 [...] I think if it wasn’t for my monthly Country Living fix, I’d have needed to be institutionalized a long time ago. (It was the only thing holding my sanity together when I was waiting in line at the Social Security office this morning, feeling my lifeforce ebb away by the minute, and trying to ignore an older gent who wanted to know if I was from China or Japan.) The flagrant wastefulness absolutely breaks my heart—which, yes, I sometimes admit to having—because you know it’s all going to the landfill, more often than not, in someone’s backyard. [...] [...] I think if it wasn’t for my monthly Country Living fix, I’d have needed to be institutionalized a long time ago. (It was the only thing holding my sanity together when I was waiting in line at the Social Security office this morning, feeling my lifeforce ebb away by the minute, and trying to ignore an older gent who wanted to know if I was from China or Japan.) The flagrant wastefulness absolutely breaks my heart—which, yes, I sometimes admit to having—because you know it’s all going to the landfill, more often than not, in someone’s backyard. [...]

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