Guilt-Free Sex

You may feel guilty about sleeping with so-and-so last night for reasons out of my control but I can suggest something that will leave you with one less thing worry about after your romp under the covers.

Who woulda thunk it! Fair trade condoms by the folks at French Letter

These condoms benefit workers on rubber plantations. You get your jollies on responsibly...the workers receive fair wages and proper health care benefits...everybody wins! Read more about and purchase your French Letter Condoms here

Where Were You?

How did you spend your Earth Hour?

Luckily for me my friends were in town and happened to stop by before Earth Hour began. Once 8 o'clock struck the lights went out, candles were lit, and conversation carried on in our romantic setting. It was actually really fun.

I even scolded my neighbour for having their lights on the whole time. He was having a party. How awesome if it switched into a candlelit party!


I tried...

Lights Out

Tomorrow (March 29th) @ 8pm (your local time), everyone is encouraged to join in on Earth Hour and turn off your lights and non-essential appliances for ONE HOUR in solidarity for electricity conservation (households and businesses alike)!

Last year's Earth Hour (created by the World Wildlife Fund) was held in Sydney, Australia where more than 2 million people flipped the switch. They even got 48,000 cars off the road for that hour. Can you believe it? Hooray for lower carbon emissions!

Need to light the way during Earth Hour? Light up some beeswax candles (they swell oh-so-sweet) and make shadow puppets, read a cook by candlelight like in the olden days, have conversation...or just have a makeout session...you know, whatever floats your boat.

Spring Cleaning Tip #4: Safe Sopping

Yes, you are conscious about your cleaning and using rags and sponges instead of paper towels. But are you using the right sponges? Be sure you're using pure cellulose sponges sans synthetic disinfectants. You'll know if has disinfectants if the packaging says is "kills germs" or "resists odors". Yes, you want to be germ-free but you'll have to embrace the fact that sponges naturally harbour bacteria anyway. It's a wet product and obvious breeding ground for bacteria.

But stop to consider that these odor/germ killing disinfectants are pretty much pesticides. No bueno, man. And do you really want to contribute to the evolution of super germs that are resistant to anything and everything we throw their way? Extra no bueno!

Be sure to arm yourself with pure cellulose sponges without the added chemicals (find them at your hardware store) the next time you buy a new pack of sponges. Keep them germ-free by boiling it in a pot of boiling water for 5 minutes or microwaving it on high for 1 minute. Weird, I know, but it works.

We're melting!

Noticed this headline on the Yahoo! front page. "A piece of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan collapses."

Ahhhh!

Put Your Undies Where?

To continue with the Spring Cleaning theme, I'm getting dressed and digging through my underwear drawer realizing that I should start getting rid of some and replenishing my supply with new skivvies. But I've been putting it off because you don't exactly want to add undies to your Goodwill pile because who wants to wear used underwear. So what to do? The trashcan is not going to be an option, that's for sure.

Lucky for me (and you) Patagonia has an underwear recycling program as part of their "Common Threads Garment Recycling" program.

The promo video featuring Agent Timmy is cute and gives you the jist of how this whole thing works. Rather than cramming our landfills with our old underwear factories take your undies, throw them into a machine, melt them into pellets, and turn the polyester pellets into new underwear! Neat right?

How To Recycle:

• Wash your undies (obvs)
  
• Drop them off at the Patagonia store near you
  
• OR you can mail them to the Patagonia Service Center at:

• Patagonia Service Center
  ATTN: Common Threads Recycling Program
  8550 White Fir Street
  Reno, NV 89523-8939

Spare your underwear from a boring and harmful existence in a landfill or an incinerator and help provide Patagonia with reusable garments rather than virgin ones to keep their products alive!

global exchange store

I want to give a little shout-out to the online store/non profit my sister works with! Global Exchange is a Fair Trade Program that works to successfully market fairly traded products in order to provide a fair price and improve the quality of life for producers and artisans, and to build a more sustainable system of trading goods all around the world! Check out the different products they have on the site. There's alot of cute stuff from different co-ops around the world.

If you're going to buy things, why not purchase socially conscious items?
My sis is one of the people modeling the wares. Figure out which one is her...

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