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Not to get all self-righteous, but for the few bucks you'll probably get from this, hopephones.com seems like a better option...

I'm glad you pointed that out Marcie. I was just going to ask if she has a similarly specious justification for her meat-eating.

I think it's interesting that your justification for continuing to use paper towels contains none of the facts or statistics you criticize the opponents of paper towel use for avoiding. Convenience and preference are not reasons to use paper towels. They are excuses for not avoiding them.

My wife and I went paper-towel-less about three months ago, and it has not been inconvenient in the least. You didn't address the fleet of trucks shipping paper towels all over the country, except to say that eco-friendly paper towels and non- use the same trucks. (No paper towels use, of course, no trucks). Also, what about the manufacture and disposal of the plastic and cardboard used in the packaging?

I don't know how bad for the environment paper towels are. (Witness Peter Singer's argument for imported vs. locally-grown rice for a great example of the complexity of this type of debate.) I do know that we are becoming more of a disposal, consumer society every day, and any step in the opposite direction is a positive one.

Where can I get these if there is no Whole Foods near me? I can't find the Trader Joe's Kitchen Cloth, either, as I don't live near a Trader Joe's, either. Any ideas? I took the suggestion of a commenter and ordered the terry cloth rags from raglady.com, but I would like to have multiple options for clean up.