Reusing receipts

My wife came up with a pretty good idea for making shopping lists. Just take your old receipt (grocery or otherwise), flip it over, and write your shopping list on the back. It saves paper, and can make for easy comparison shopping. It works well for us with grocery receipts since they are generally pretty long, and is a weekly occurrence.

Vitamins

I've often thought that I should eat some vitamin suppliments, since I'm not the healthiest eater in the world. However, I always end up forgetting to take them. Well with all the latest reports maybe I'm better off just going without them. Here's one take from the Boston Globe about some of the recent vitamin reports:
The fading allure of vitamins

ShiftHappens

Check out this really interesting slideshow describing globalization and the role of the U.S. in the 21st century.
http://www.slideshare.net/jbrenman/shift-happens-33834

Donation Meters in Denver

From Daily Good, an article about parking meters in Denver being used to collect change for the city's homeless. Sounds like an interesting idea, although I wonder why not just give the change straight to the homeless person? An interesting tidbit I got from the article is that the city is trying to eliminate homelessness in Denver within the next 10 years! A great thing for the mile high city to aspire to!

Kindness Meters

It's a Bird, a plane no a helirickshaw!

It's a Bird, a plane no a helirickshaw!
Originally uploaded by calamur.

Check out this rickshaw!

No Impact Man

I just came across this great blog by a guy in NYC who is trying to reduce his family's impact on the environment for a year. This means avoiding plastic, eating locally, no TV or movies, giving up cars, subways, new items in packaging, and even toilet paper! Its a bold experiment, and I'm sure they're learning so much from it. It reminds me of the book "Better Off" that I read last year, but they're in NYC! Definitely worth a visit!

No Impact Man