In honor of Earth Day...

How to be Eco-Friendlier
by lekkq, arie, elisabeth, gateau

1. Don’t use your hot tools every day. Not only is it good for your hair, it saves electricity!
2. Invest in rechargeable batteries. They’re like 30$ at first but they pay for themselves in like 2 months.
3. Recycle. Talk to your school about recycling bottles. Set up a mini recyclable bin for paper you’re tossing. A meter wide cardboard box doesn’t take up much space and only needs to be emptied once a month. And you can decorate it to look pretty!
4. Try to bring your own tote when shopping. You can fit a surprising amount in. Today in my bucket purse I fit two sweaters, a pair of pants and a little extra. If you do take plastic bags try to find creative ways to use them. Especially if you have a dog… haha. I use my plastic bags to line my garbage can in my room to make sure nothing icky gets stuck to the bottom.
5. Set up a mini compost in your room. I’m not talking fruits and what, ew that’d stink.. but take like a paper shopping bag and put all of the stuff that doesn’t go in recyclable but can compost.. like Kleenex or extra little scraps of fabric.
6. In NS we have compost bins, I don’t know if that happens everywhere. See if you can make a community compost pit. Talk to your mayor about composting. Usually even one letter (on recycled paper, haha) can generate results.
7. Buy vintage. It definitely helps. And donate your old stuff. Value Village takes almost anything.
   
8. Try to buy local fruit. Organic for extra points. So worth it!
9. Buy those 5-year energy efficient light bulbs
   
10. Try to avoid using Styrofoam, it isn't biodegradable.
11. WALK. Wherever you can. Carpool! The less cars you take, the less gas you waste. Take the train, subway, bus etc. at least one way.
    Optional: take pictures of yourself with sulky faces using your rechargeable batteries and be scenester cool.
12. Stop smoking. You don't really need your very own personal hole in the o-zone layer.
13. Let the air out of random Hummers tires! Kidding, kidding. But hummers and big SUVS make me angry because they get such bad gas mileage.
14. Lower the temp in your house by a few degrees
15. Limit use of hot water when you take showers or whatever, it takes lots of energy to heat water up

Remember when we all made fun of Chloe Sevigny for wearing these?

Yeah, me neither.

Wayfarers sunglasses, sure to be hitting the racks of your local Forever 21.

the case against kitten heels.

When I was younger, my mom would never let me wear heels. She had some speech about how there is a genetic disposition to weak ankles in my family and I'll fall and break my neck and then I'll be sorry and what's wrong with those flat mary janes anyway? Of course Mom, being in sixth grade the mary jane thing would be rather embarrassing. Anyways, to me it seemed that kitten heels were the perfect solution. They were low enough to make my mother happy, and they were real, live, big girl heels! There was just one problem. They're impossible to walk in. The teensy weensy heels are narrow enough that all you can do is wobble. This led to me having a supremely embarrassing time at my aunts wedding, proving my mother right and leaving me to spend the next year's bar mitzvah season stuck in flats (not the hated mary janes though, thank God).
The reason for this post ( and I'm telling you this so you don't think I'm crazy and in need of therapy to talk about my mother the foot related abuse she inflicted on me (not to mention the visual, you should see the shoes SHE wears(actually I'll show you, here they are: )))

Anyway, the reason for this post is that for some reason there are a bonanza of kitten heels at my local Marshalls. They aren't even in style! (right?) But no, they have taken over the shelves, and whenever I spy a cute pair of what I think are flats, I am decieved by the tiny heel. It ruins my day.

By Jo

p.s. sorry about how rambly and pointless this post was, but no one's updated for a long time.