Failed Resolutions

Well, I failed that resolution and bought beautiful new jeans (on sale!) at Anthropologie, but I did end up looking pretty great at my friend's wedding despite eating sweets every day, so maybe some resolutions aren't that worthwhile. I am toying with becoming a vegetarian. Mostly because eating meat is so bad for the environment. In school, I just learned that 90% of outdoor air pollutants are cause by five major sources: transportation, industry (not sure what that means), electric power generation, space heating (!), and refuse disposal. I try to recylcle everything but really should compost. Why does laziness often make it so easy to do the wrong thing?

(Image from Old Soul New Heart, my new obsession: http://www.oldsoulnewheart.com/product/triple-threat)

People Are Strange

I was walking down the street this morning and there were mountains, literally, of "recycling" out on the curb. The plethora of waste deeply disturbed me. I nabbed some great baby wrapping paper, which I don't really have immediate use for, but figure does not have to be restricted to baby gifts alone. Why would someone throw this away? In this culture where we want things so much and there is such a desire for newness, is this what we have come to? It's just easier to throw unused things away when we move, as long as it is into the recycling. Is that what are our new awakening to the environmental woes of our world has brought us? I desire no more throwing away of perfectly useful objects that are no longer of use or convenience to us. Put in just a smidgeon of effort people.