things worth paying attention to
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This list is by no means inclusive, and we don’t have personal experience with most of these companies, but these are companies we’ve come across that include at least a few pieces of non-toxic clothing in their product lines. Banjaara Christy Dawn Faherty Free People Gudrun Sjõdén Harvest & Mill Known Supply L.L. Bean Linen…
Almost every stretchy fabric has spandex in it. Bad idea. Spandex is a synthetic, petroleum-based fiber, also called elastane, and sometimes trademarked as Lycra. The word “spandex” is an anagram of “expands.” The word “elastane” comes from “elastic urethane.” Spandex is made from at least 85% polyurethane, sourced from nonrenewable crude oil or natural gas.
What to wear? As with our diets, our clothing choices may find us unthinkingly doing things to our bodies that are very definitely bad for us. Like processed foods that aren’t really food, most of the clothes in our closets aren’t doing us any favors.
“Traditional buildings were designed according to the microclimate of the specific region because heat and cold control the thermal comfort in the houses and this different from one place to another. The natural technologies applied in these buildings have sustained human life for many decades and are purely for heating or cooling purpose. Examples of these techniques are fire chimneys, courtyards, wind towers and mashrabiya (Noble, 2007). In hot-dry and warm humid zones such as Middle East and North Africa where cooling is more important than heating, ventilation tunnel, wind tower, wind catcher, wind sail, maziara and courtyard are used to achieve thermal comfort.”
Read free. This guide explores strategies to create resilient, self-directed local economies. Greco challenges the centralized, debt-based monetary system and promotes community-controlled alternatives such as mutual credit systems and local currencies.
Stephen Gaskin was a spiritual teacher and author, and founder of The Farm community in Summertown, Tennessee. The website stephensgospel.com shares quotes from his early books, Monday Night Class and Caravan. As the leader of a community built from scratch, his sayings can have a lot of relevance to people working together on challenging projects.
These are the quotes in the scrolling slidehow in this website’s home page header: An eclectic collection of worthwhile sayings, food for thought, wisdom, humor.
Read for free online. God Is An Astronaut: Biblical Descriptions of God, Angels, and Divine Chariots. By Gayla Groom.
Things that piss us off. Lying mostly.
Where Did the Towers Go? Dr. Judy Wood.
50 smart sayings in graphical squares.
Neurotic to No-Limit: Attitude & Behavior Chart. From “The Sky’s the Limit” by Wayne Dyer. Copyright 1980 Wayne W. Dyer. NEZ means No Erroneous Zones.
