Archive for February, 2010

Low plastic? Shop on campus

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

I was in Athens, Georgia last weekend for a University of Georgia alumni event. One fun thing about being in a college town is shopping for items unavailable elsewhere. (Metro D.C. is — what? — thirty times the size, but it’s easier to get beer-making supplies in Athens, for instance.)
One such product line is green [...]

Making bread

Monday, February 15th, 2010

The District of Columbia and surrounding area is digging out from a pair of blizzards the likes of which have not seen around here in living memory.
Bread was one of the first commodities to disappear — this is a well-known phenomenon, even for modest snows — and the snowfall prevented trucks from restocking. We, however, [...]

Low plastic office: Hollinger boxes

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

A truly paperless office, even if desirable, is very hard to organize. Paper is just too useful a product and paper printed quickly becomes paper stored. There are many metal filing tools for those who want to avoid plastic, but these are often packed in plastic or are simply too large or unwieldy for the [...]