Momster: I want to ask you guys a few questions about the earth and the environment, and pollution.
Georgia: And shoes on the wire! And I’ll tell you now in fact. Shoes on the wire are for silliness!
(We had passed some guerilla art, visible all over town, various pairs of shoes — not just your usual sneakers, but high heels and cowboy boots, this time a pair of oxfords — slung over the power lines.)
Though I admit I harbor a special fondness for urban entropy — the muted allure of vacant lots and barren earth — I am also a fan of reclaiming under-utilized space, which guerilla gardening exemplifies nicely. While there are all sorts of methods of garden space reclamation, from the labor intensive to the casual, by far the easiest is the seed package or “bomb.”
As of this week, I've become a kaizen convert.
I'd never heard of kaizen, since I'm clueless about Japanese businesss management practices.
Then I read an article in the New York Times on improving our daily habits. It touched on kaizen, a Japanese technique for creating healthier habits based on tiny, continuous improvements.
Along with drain products, acid-based toilet bowl cleaners are in the top three of the most toxic household products available because they contain caustic ingredients that burn eyes, skin and internal tissues. They can also contain chlorine or ammonia and even pesticides.
Lately, it seems that not a week goes by without more scary news about the rising cost of food.
Read The Omnivore's Dilemma already — and want more? Then check out these hot new foodie books to take you a step further in your enviro-culinary adventures:
Though silk-screening is a
fairly straightforward process, the cost and chemicals involved can still be
somewhat prohibitive for the no-budget artiste. Plus, unless you’re really going for
quantity, it’s a bit of an overkill to stage the whole process for a single
t-shirt or a couple of patches. Fortunately,
for the price of an embroidery hoop (less than a buck), and a bottle of craft glue,
you can make a perfectly usable screen to satisfy your small-scale production needs.
What You’ll Need: