ethical gifts + sustainable giving + holiday ideas

It’s that time of year again – consumerama-mania. Now I’m not about to say getting gifties isn’t awesome, but getting things you won’t really want or need is so not on. So in an effort to ensure your thoughtfulness is a big hug for the planet, I’ve got some great ideas. Gifts of Hope Plan [...]

food inc. + environment + health + planet

Food Inc. was completely incredible shocking informative important! Wow! I knew that the concept of factory farming was bad, but the level of invasiveness, insidiousness and outright control on the North American diet is ASTONISHING. Some stats to chew on – there are 47,000 products in the average supermarket. 90% have corn in them! Cows [...]

girl power + poverty + change + social justice

Further to the amazing BECAUSE I’M A GIRL website about issues affecting young girls in the developing world, there’s going a new book of stories from around the world. BECUZ I’M A GIRL Sorry to be sort of tweetie today rather than bloggy, but wanted to spread the word.

charity + cartoons + music + kindness

In the spirit of kindness, giving and happy holidaze…I present an index of OVER 80,000 Canadian charities! Zowie. Charity Directory Plus, for yer musical enjoyment, a super fun charity video from the UK with all kinds of cartoon friends – teletubbies, spongebob, bob the builder, paddington and at 2.5 minutes there’s a great treat! spread [...]

charity + eco-gifts + sharing

With the holidaze upon us, there’s a load of hype to get us buy groovy things so we can look + feel and BE better. There’s one commercial on TV right now that’s irritating the crap out of me. It’s for the brilliant charity Right to Play that helps kids in the third world get [...]