New Year's Resolutions 2007
05 Jan 2007
Answer the call of the wild
"Ring, ring" is so 2005; "Buttons" is so 2006. This year, celebrate The Year of the Endangered-Animal Ringtone. Ash-breasted tit-tyrant calling!
Photo courtesy of Lynne Howse and the Center for Biological Diversity
Photo: TerraCycle
Give back to the community
Eating more candy + drinking more soda = helping low-income folk build an eco-brick house. Shake it down, shake it down, now.
Photo: iStockphoto
Photo: iStockphoto
Bake up a storm
The more snickerdoodles we make, the more likely it is that we'll soon be living in our own Northwest version of Willy Wonka's factory. Sweet.
Take advantage of climate change
Oh, now we understand: It's global warming that's heating up sex lives. And we thought it was just our huge ... personalities. We're off to open a coal-fired power plant!
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