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  Interesting

  I like seeing the images of what other folks are eating. My wife and I started a project of photographing everything we buy; my biggest weakness is clearly the trips to the convenience store for diet soda. Even saving my cup and refilling it doesn't change the fact that I'm drinking so much, and every time I review the images it is profoundly embarassing. The exercise in taking the pictures though has definitely made an impact on our buying choices.

  We call the project The Voracious Project.On Lots of fruits and bread in Sicily; lots of junk in North Carolina posted 2 years, 5 months ago 6 Responses

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  Great Stuff

  Very clever. I love this one:

  "Gmail Paper is a scrapbooker's dream. I paper archive all of my son's emails, cut them out in creative shapes, and paste them in my binders."

  The Grist gag about Wal*Mart got me, I have to confess.
  On Good one, Google posted 2 years, 7 months ago 3 Responses

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  Then there's the articles on Hybrids. . . .

  Both Outside and Canoe and Kayak have recently devoted articles to hybrid vehicles as well, and what struck me most was how lame those vehicles pretty much all were. I mean, a hybrid luxury car may make some person feel self righteous, but 25 mpg still sucks no matter how you slice it.

  Seems to me a lot of this is just an extreme case of bandwagon jumping. Kind of a "green for a day" thing. On Grist reviews the spring crop of green glossy mags posted 2 years, 7 months ago 11 Responses

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  Green is great. . . .

   . . . as long as they get rid of building the gigantic trophy homes while they're at it. A 4000+ square foot home, even if green, is still a huge energy hog. Seems like most of the write-ups I see of green homes are these fancy mansions that are utterly unattainable for the average person building a home that might go green if they realized green doesn't have to mean unreasonable.

  There needs to be a decent incentive tax-wise as well, it seems. A friend of mine built a house last year, and while it isn't green, he did the best he could afford in getting energy-rated appliances, windows, furnace, etc. Even with the extra he spent, he still would have had a better tax credit if he had bought a Prius instead. It may not be like that everywhere, but I'm curious to know more from people with a little more hard information on the subject.On The real tipping point? Maybe? posted 2 years, 8 months ago 5 Responses