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For an incredibly simple way to cut down your shower time, water consumption, and product use, all you have to do is… cut your hair! I recently had easily over a foot of hair cut off and was amazed at the immediate changes in my morning routine. It’s fast, easy, and cool for the summertime. But I’m one of those girls with no emotional attachment to my hair (plus, I think the androgynous/boyish look is completely adorable). To the rest of you–it’s worth it to save the world, right??
See, it's not too hard, right?
And here are a few things that have caught my eye recently (or not so recently):
An encouraging post from Barbara at Tigers & Strawberries about Americans returning to the garden.
Two from No-Impact Man, Colin Beavan: A 90-second video from 350.org and a summary of Al Gore’s recent call for the US to move to 100% renewable energy by 2018.
This book looks amazing… and I want it. Badly.
So this scarf isn’t exactly new, but I LOVE it. Too bad my knitting skills are right about here and I have finished exactly one scarf in my life… maybe someday I will actually learn to do basic things like read the pattern for that scarf. We’ll see.
These look amazing… see: 
I told you.
This resource for finding local food producers looks very helpful… and kind of like something I was thinking about doing for my honors thesis… if I ever learn flash. I’ll probably explain that more later.
Small is Possible: Life in a Local Economy looks like a book worth reading. I’ll have to add it to my list.
An interview on Grist with the author of another book that looks worth reading: Bottlemania.
So,
two weddings (and being MOH in one)
one high school graduation (for the little brother)
one college graduation (for the brother-in-law)
one Air Force commissioning (also bro-in-law)
five accompanying parties to throw and/or attend
one return flight from Ukraine to welcome home (with boyfriend on board)
and
two weeks of summer camp
do a pretty darn good job of keeping a fledgling blogger from her blog. Oops. My apologies. Anyway, as a welcome back to whoever may be watching, I’ve compiled a list of links having to do with cloth menstrual pads (and one for tampons). I haven’t personally made my cloth pads yet, but I need to get on it, considering that time of month is sneaking up quickly! Once I do, I’ll offer my thoughts. I could rehash a lot of things here, but there’s a terribly long and informative discussion that I’m going to link to (and highly recommend reading), so I’ll just say this: reduce, reuse, recycle. “Disposable” anything is a huge waste.
Fantastic discussion full of advice and personal experience at Crafster.
Several different styles at Adahy’s Cloth Pad Patterns
Cloth pads with removable inserts at sew green and a way to donate them to a good cause.
An interesting idea for reusable tampons.
A clever, minimal waste pattern from Jan Andrea.
UPDATE: I tried the pattern from sew green last month, and while it was simple and easy (I made two pads from quilter’s cotton in about 10 minutes and used peices cut from an old towel for inserts), it felt like wearing a diaper, and I wasn’t used to the wings (being a previously all-tampon kind of girl). So we’ll see what this month brings…
