By Theresa
As Earth Hour takes place this week on March 27th, I thought it fitting to have a post about the environment.
If you’ve frequented a dollar store lately, you may notice the wide assortment of goods that one lil’ dollar can get you. And if you’re like me, you may also wonder how on earth some of these things manage to cost only one dollar. Well there is a story behind the stuff that we buy—a story that many consumers either don’t know about or perhaps choose to ignore.
This 20 minute video features environmental activist Annie Leonard. She deftly explains the entire cycle of our consumer-driven society from the masterminds who orchestrated our desires to shop, to how raw materials are extracted from the earth, to the factories that make our goods, and finally to how our stuff is disposed of.
While this video focuses on the U.S. I’m sure many of these facts are similar in other industrialized nations.
By Theresa
If Hollywood and Beverly Hills aren’t your style, the next time you’re in Los Angeles, you can get up-close-and-personal with the boys in the ’hood. For $65 per adult, the non-profit group, L.A. Gang Tours is offering a two-hour tour of the city’s most notorious gang-infested neighbourhoods. Proceeds from the tours will go back to inner city neighbourhoods in areas such as job development and providing micro-loans to entrepreneurs.
By Theresa
A few days ago my husband and I went on a date to the opera. When the show was finished, we found that someone had inserted a business card onto the windshield of our car. It said in bold letters: Date a Model. Thinking it was a sleazy company that offered hot models for hire, we checked out their website just for fun in hopes of scoping out some attractive men and women. We were tricked!
By Theresa
There’s nothing like a warm bowl of soup on a chilly day. Clam chowder. Minestrone. Cream of celery. Shark fin. Garden vegetable. Wait a minute – shark fin soup? For those of you who have not tried it, it is a traditional Chinese soup served on special occasions which costs a pretty penny. Like the name implies, it contains cut up cartilage from a shark’s fin and is often accompanied with thinly sliced pieces of chicken or pork simmered in a chicken broth.
For the record, I have eaten shark fin soup numerous times at Chinese weddings and baby banquets and must admit it is a tasty soup. However after watching the documentary Shark Water, I’ve discovered that tastiness comes with a hefty price.
