Four of my favorite articles this week.
Slate.com: The most isolated man in the world. Really.
99%.com: Is Consumerism Killing Our Creativity?
Bitch Magazine: Eat, Pray, Spend. (Thanks, Stephanie.)
The Week.com: There’s BPA in receipts, too. (Exposures from receipts could be seven times higher than levels ingested in the diet!) I’ve started declining my receipts.
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Wowie, all fascinating articles. Thank you so much for posting – post more like this!
We both read “Eat, Pray, Spend” last week and I couldn’t believe that the publishing house had subsidized the trip and that it never comes up in the interviews! Self-fulfilling prophecies and such…
Looking forward to reading the others!
(P.S. The BPAs news made me alarmed on behalf of Safeway check-out clerks!)
wow! who knew that about receipts? yikes! thanks for sharing.
I knew about the receipts from Sherry at Young House Love. She’s been declining them for at least a year or so. She’s pretty dedicated about having a healthy environment for her family and always finds the most interesting (and disturbing) facts.
You have to keep posting like this. You always find the best articles, especially Eat, Pray, Spend. I can’t adequately put into words how much I LOATHED Eat, Pray, Love. Loathe. Loathe, loathe, loathe.
Loathe.
Deanna and Jules, I’m SO glad you liked the post — I’ve been mulling over doing a round up like this every week and now, thanks to your cheerleading, I think I will!
xoxoxo
Amen, Teddy.
Thank you SO much for this. You are one of my daily reads, and you didn’t only provide me with creativity today, but also with some intellectual stimulation – which I was TOTALLY craving today.
Seriously. You have changed how I will spend my evening
so glad you liked the Slate article. i edited the book which is the full story of the indian by this writer!
Not too sure of I could live alone in the Brazilian Amazon…yikes I think I would freak out, but non-the less amazing. And receipts now? I am so over plastic, my husband started plasticpromise.org, I could explain but too long (it’s basically being responsible for the plastic we consume) you should check it out! All are great…thanks for sharing!
Juliexo
What – that’s crazy about the receipts!! Who knew?? Love, love the quote btw! Gotta check out these links…especially Eat, Pray,Spend…sounds interesting!
wow. now i’m totally going to go into compulsive hand washing mode whenever i touch a receipt! crazy.