Back in January I wrote about an article from the ever obnoxious NY Post about how NYC should cull the Canadian Geese population near the airports. Well, their wish is coming true. On Friday it was announced that the culling of the birds will start within the next week. (Thanks to my friend Alice for [...]
A great article in the NY Times today talks about shopping at Goodwill for designer clothes. Goodwill wants to be seen as the cool place to go, so they are changing their ways. I’ve been a big fan of shopping second hand for many years. I would say 1/4 of my coats, 1/2 of my [...]
What would you do with 50 grand? Put a down payment on a house? Pay off school loans? How about buy a crocodile skin handbag from Hermes…. Yeah. I didn’t think so. Well, someone is buying them because the fashion house Hermes can’t keep up with demand. There is a waiting list for their fifty [...]
Afghanistan recently established its first national park and has a list of thirty three threatened and endangered species that are guaranteed protection. I find it pretty amazing that during a war this action was taken. It actual makes me feel great hope – that a country that has had so much upheavel can take time [...]
On Sunday morning my husband and I went to our first farmers market of the season. Many of them are opening up now, so check your local area for farmers markets. What’s in season? Well, in Rye NY we bought strawberries, asparagus, swiss red chard, sea salt and onion cashews, fresh bread and other leafy [...]
On Saturday I was lucky enough to see a preview of the new film Food Inc. The director and Eric Sclosser were there to discuss the film after. I posted the trailer here a few weeks ago… I would recommend that everyone sees this film. Now, vegetarians and vegans are my primary audience on this [...]
Yesterday I came across this great article on sunscreens. The article takes seven different sunscreen, rates them on their eco and animal friendliness. Most of them aren’t vegan – only two contain no animal products. But more than two refrain from testing on animals. For my dollars and skin, the Desert Essence Organics Age Reversal [...]
Kathy Freston’s new article (featured on Huffington Post) takes the form of a school teacher talking to students about how people lived one hundred years ago. The teacher talks about global warming, and how people used to *gasp* eat meat! She talks about how the U.N. has said that animal agriculture accounts for more greenhouse [...]
Over the weekend my husband and I saw the film Up in 3D. We get pretty excited about Pixar films. And I’ve been especially excited about this one. From an animal rights perspective, it’s pretty endearing. (I am going to be talking about some aspects of plot. I won’t give away any big surprises or [...]
Generally, I eat pretty healthy foods. Lots of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, tofu and more. But lately I’ve fallen into the “I want to eat sweets” mentality. And that is NOT a good thing as we approach bathing suit season. And now, after my BBQ, my refrigerator is stocked with leftover desserts. I ate [...]
