Summertime whites
“Thereby, I make a plea at this time that may be summer: gentlemen, keep your shirts on. The balmy twenty degrees may compel you to bare your lily white pigeon-chests in a courtship ritual, but your country needs you to avoid a tan.”
LOL. Damn my transluscent English skin too.
Abondance Montréal
Montréal zero-energy condos. Good location, affordable. Car-sharing, organic veg delivery and gym memberships included.
Young Anabaptist Radicals: Biblical Commands For the Privileged
Don’t dismiss them because they’re Christian. Anabaptists are strong pacifists and supporters of social justice, and when you remove “God” from all these guidelines they still present solid social and political ethics. (Thx Kevin!)
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Food waste on 'staggering' scale
“[T]he average UK household needlessly throws away 18% of all food purchased. Families with children throw away 27% … “What shocked me the most was the cost of our food waste at a time of rising food bills, and generally a tighter pull on our purse strings,” Ms Goodwin said. “It highlights that this is an economic and social issue, as well as about how much we understand the value of our food.”
The Garbage Project found that people consistently waste more food during periods of shortage than during other times - primarily due to people buying items they do not usually buy, and then lacking knowledge of how to properly store or prepare it. Also, food shortages are exacerbated by hoarding.
Canadian consumers rank second-last in green survey
Both depressing and embarrassing. See JK, it’s all about housing and transportation choices.
WNBA offers advice to rookies
As part of the rookies’ orientation into life as professional athletes, the WNBA for the first time offered them hour-long courses on makeup and fashion tips … “The problem is if only 8 percent of the coverage is on women, and the vast majority of the time we’re talking about who they’re married to, what clothing they’re wearing, what kind of parents they are, there’s not much room left to say, ‘What a great athlete,’ ” Snyder said …
Renee Brown, the WNBA’s vice president of player personnel, said the league aims to show its players as “mothers, daughters, sisters, nieces and entrepreneurs” and their “womanhood” is important to promote the league. “You’re a woman first,” Brown said. “You just happen to play sports. They enjoy dressing up and trying on outfits, where back in the day, everyone just wore sweats. “Call it what you want. We’re just celebrating their womanhood.”
Jessica at Feministing sez: “So long as “womanhood” means adhering to traditional gender norms. When “womanhood” means being a kick-ass athlete, I guess it’s not worth celebrating.”
Yup. Sad.