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How could you not love the Moral ABCs? (Agreed with classiccook, especially after watching Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox!)

I have reused Kiss My Face foaming bottles for Dr. B's, diluted. It only clogs every once in a while.

I posted affirmative to continuing the club on the survey just now.

I agree about the shorter schedule though. I got the book from the library way after others and still finished it at least a few weeks earlier.

I also do the 'fridge/freezer thing in old plastic containers with lids - wherever there is more room. I was literally dumbstruck when I read Grub and he suggested doing the freezer thing. I would have never considered it.

The composting hours at my local garden are only few hours on the weekend so emptying it more than 1x or 2x a month is out of the question. My friend has just started composting too so we are going to try to do coffee run/composting date every few weeks as incentive to bring it on over.

I am jealous of people who have their own yards to compost!

I reuse any 8-20oz (and up) size glass jars that I end up with for grains, nuts, cookies, etc. I print out a sheet of the Small Object Flying Floating labels on plain paper and label them accordingly:

http://thesmallobject.com/stenopad/wordpress/?page_id=58

Oh, and I've never had issues with the bags not being transparent. The drawstring takes not even a second to open to see what's in there.

Oh, absolutely. I finished the book a week or so ago and wrote this in my blog:

"Unfortunately she has a very condescending-towards-vegans chapter making some very ridiculous assumptions about vegans (that they would like to rewrite animal domestication history, they would like to destroy the chains of bondage of GMO factory farm animals and let them live in the wild, that they are naive to the harm that goes into any food production) which I find both apropos since there are some self-righteous and naive vegans and quite silly since there are also very active environmentally-conscious vegans. But, I will assume she has only had contact with the former even though she uh, uses the internet."

I think there are both good and ridiculous points she makes about vegans. (For full disclosure I am one.) I know there are vegans stupid and self-righteous enough to think they harm nothing and I know there are tons of ecologically-minded vegans who both know that *all* food affects something whether it be displacement land, transport, etc. Her rant about how vegans essentially want to set farm animals free to roam the lands is both naive and ridiculous. I don't know any history revisionist vegans who are more concerned about how animals were domesticated by us more so than alleviating horrible inhumane processes that Kingsolver herself doesn't support. While most vegans wouldn't applaud her, I also think she is not really Vegan Public Enemy #1 like she seems to think she is.

I do think her argument about grains/land usage/feeding more people holds water in areas where grains cannot be harvested in great quantities -- but, again. That argument is usually used against both our food excesses and also an industry that pushes a ridiculous amount of meat production through GM animals and factory farming rather than areas assisted by Heifer Intl.

It was kind of surprising because I think it was the first time in the book where she was obviously really aggro about a particular people!

Sorry, NY Mag - I do know the difference!

I think it depends on the sofa you get. Mine is sort of modular and the frame has been absolutely fine for almost 5 years now, and I use it for sleepover guests. It's the Lessebo and I got it for $400.

Unfortunately they no longer have replacement covers for it so I'll need to figure something else out:
http://humanerecipe.blogspot.com/2007/11/remodel-repair.html

I linked to a couple who had their Ikea couch for almost a decade!

Well, I think the "bedding" is more for wildlife being rehabbed rather than just dog blankets for domestic animals. Every fur-donation for the animals I've seen references wildlife rehab and using it presumably to provide a comfort zone for the animal and to prohibit young orphaned wildlife from bonding to humans, making it impossible to release them.

I think Peta's stance on the homeless population fur donations is more to lower fur's status than to actually clothe humans so their intention is most likely the opposite of how you interpreted it.

I think that they're trying to channel older fur into those channels so they're not seen as "wasting" it. Overall, I'd prefer never to see it on anything but the animal who owned it!

Yeeeah, I am just not behind anything that thinks fur belongs "out in the open" - sorry! There is nothing green about breeding/capturing animals for their pelts - that's a lot of resources going into a wearable panel (not to mention sickeningly inhumane).

The best way to reuse fur is to donate it back to the animals.