So I've added the texting feature to my little blog in hopes that it will help me post more. This blog used to be about recycling and making less of an impact on the earth, and it still is, but now it's also about other things like BIG IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT LIFE!

For anyone who doesn't know: I'm moving to Los Angeles over the summer!

I'll write a bigger post about it when I have more time but for the next 4 days I will be finishing up all my stuff for the UH senior photo show that is opening March 27th!

Shopping Cartography

I've been a terrible blogger again. One post in January? That's just outrageous!!

I've been posting, at least once a week, at my collaborative blog with Stephanie Gobea called Gobi and Char Will Destroy You. I took this great polaroid for our photo of the week assignment and now I can't find it. I need to stop losing things.

I found this at Readymade. It's a map of the world that you print out and put stickers in the places where all the things you buy are from. I think it's an interesting experiment in mapping out the ecological impact your spending has. Think about how much energy is wasted on that cotton shirt from Taiwan: all the boats, planes, and trucks it had to go on to make it to your house. Don't get me wrong, I'm completely hypocritical when it comes to this but at least it makes me think a little about what I buy and if I really need it. In this regard I really need to start going to local farmers markets because although I try really hard to buy food locally at the grocery store, there isn't much local going on at stores in the middle of winter.

2010!

Hopefully this year will be more bountiful than the last with blog posts about composting and things that correlate; definitely the latter half will be, once school is over and done with. But for now you get an iphone picture of my Bonsai tree from ikea and a little story to go with it.

I bought this cute little plant during one of my many trips to ikea because it was so cute with it's tiny little leaves and cute roots. To my dismay, a few days after the bonsai tree arrived to its new home, it started losing all of it's cute little leaves! Unbeknown to me, this is what bonsai trees do to accommodate to new climates. These days, a few months after I brought it home, it has more leaves than ever and keeps sprouting more! Now why is this of any relevance to composting? Because I put a little bit of the composting "juice" in all of my plants and now they smell terrible! Lesson learned: just because something is nourishing, don't let it reek up your house.