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.