I have always prided myself on being a frugal and thoughtful consumer, concerned about the ecological and ethical impacts of the products I buy. I pay that extra $10 a month to support green energy, use CFLs where I can, have low flow shower heads, bricks in the toilet tanks, buy earth and animal friendly cleaning products or make my own, wear my clothes until they're dead, line dry most often, use my dish and pasta water to water landscaping, shower every other day, have no ac, rarely use my gas in wall heater, bike or take public transport almost all of the time, drink tap water, buy local and organic foods to supplement those I grow in my garden, have reusable shopping bags, a reusable coffee cup, a reusable water bottle, save lidded plastic food packaging to store left overs of future meals and compost 100% of my food scraps.

....so what's with all this waste?

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Day 4: Contemporary Cooking vs American Inginuity

Contemporary Cooking: One Item = One Use

Check out this $15 device from the folks at Williams-Sonoma designed to take the guess work out of cutting mushrooms. (WTF?) Oh and it's Dutch! Well that makes all the difference!


American Ingenuity: One Item = Many Reuses

I was just forwarded this great post from 2DayBlog.com. (thanks JP) If you can't tell, that's a CD spindle holder! Feeling better about the existence of the mushroom slicer already.

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