GAP unveils new 'For Kids By Kids' clothing line

Leave it to the Onion News Network to peal back the skins of our hypocrisy.

GAP For Kids By Kids

Buy Sweat-Free T's from a worker-owned cooperative in Nicaragua!

Great Moments In Presidential Speeches Compilation

With these hands I demand the future

Fast Food, sure. Now we have Fast Fashion?

Clothes – and fast clothes in particular – are a large and worsening source of the carbon emissions that contribute to global warming, because of how they are both produced and cared for, concludes a new report from researchers at Cambridge University titled "Well Dressed?" [read the press release for the study]

The global textile industry must become eco-conscious, the report concludes. It explores how to develop a more "sustainable clothing" industry – a seeming oxymoron in a world where fashions change every few months.

You can read the full article here.

We can't make it hear anymore

James McMurtry, with a voice reminiscent of Bruce Cockburn, sings about class war straight up. While country music may not get your toes tapping, the song is worth a listen.

Choose the top song from the album "Childish Things" here - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7548171

It's Sunday morning and I just came across this at npr.org. We are here south of Louisville in a motel with a indoor waterpark, yes, of ALL places. The owner of the bar behind our house didn't want us calling the police in the middle of their 10 - 4 a.m. party with an extra tent outside, so he put us up here.

Next party, we'll send the kids to sleep at Grandma's...

Organic versus Local? - for an iPod

Newsvine <www.newsvine.com> does a 'Question of the Day' and last week's question generated a phenomenal 151 answers.

The Question:
If given a choice between purchasing either organic produce that has been grown in another country or non-organic produce which has been grown locally, which choice would you make and why?

The chosen winner was 'kurtstack' and here is his answer:

I would go with organic produce which has been grown in another country. Even though purchasing local empowers your local economy the well-being of a local field worker exposed to pesticides, herbicides, and synthetic fertilizers is worth more than a few extra dollars in his or her pocket. In addition, the number one water pollutant in the United State's are pesticides. The value of everything affected because of these chemicals outweighs the revenue which is generated from non-organic produce which has been grown locally. We must look at the big picture and see what is best for the planet, because without a healthy planet, generations which follow will be asking, what went wrong?

For more answers...
http://questions.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/24/534940-organic-vs-local#comments

One person replied:

"Produce? Grown? You mean food that isn't red meat, flamin' hot cheetos, oreos, various junk foods, and otherwise artificially made?

You're kidding, right?"

on being firm

Things might have quickly devolved into an attitude meltdown. At one point, I threw up my hands and said, "Forget it. After the parent-teacher conference, I'm dropping you all off and I'M going for at hike at Mt. St. Francis. I wanted to walk on the lake before the warm weather melted the ice. With 48 predicted for today, and warmer the rest of the week, it was only a matter of time.

Elias wanted to go to Iroquois Park so we could do disc golf and basketball. I want the kids to enjoy the outdoors without always doing a sport. So, finally I put my foot down and said, "We're going to Mt. St. Francis, period. No more discussion." And that is what we did.

Elias tried to bribe me into going out for lunch. "If I don't complain, I get to pick where we go out for lunch, okay?" I said I didn't know. In the end, after making a bird-headed snow man in the middle of the lake, and hiking a couple miles, I convinced them they could choose anything they wanted from Whole Foods to cook up for a mid-afternoon "Linner." Or "Dunch."

The resulting meal was a feast. Julian mashed some lovely new potatoes with salt-pepper, milk and olive oil. I bought four "wild caught" Top Necked Clams, simmered them in Trader Joe's marinara sauce, served it on hot spaghetti noodles, and sprinkled with Parmesan. I also boiled some fresh organic broccoli.

Elias made rolled biscuit dough and we shaped the rolled dough around uncured hot dogs to bake in the 450 degree oven. The hot garlic mustard and organic ketchup perked up those pigs in a blanket. And we finished it off with extra bisquits, lathered with margarine and gobs of wild blueberry jam from Lake Adaquetangie. Yum!

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"Bobby" - Trailer for the movie