anotherkindofdrew blog

The Story of Stuff Project was created by Annie Leonard to leverage and extend the film’s impact. The project amplifies public discourse on a series of environmental, social and economic concerns and facilitate the growing Story of Stuff community’s involvement in strategic efforts to build a more sustainable and just world. The on-line community includes [...]

It seems that we are told on a daily basis that our ideas of sustainability and our “needs” will change when we have kids. I believe these people. I truly do. But I also believe in children adapting to the environment they are raised in. If you don’t saturate your child’s life with toys and [...]

The post below was originally published on The Good Human. Run by David, The Good Human aims to be a destination that encourages people to be better humans through working to clean up the environment, being active in political issues and being more aware of one’s life and surroundings. If you aren’t already reading him [...]

And like that, the firestorm is over. You may remember my Sun Chips trials. If not, you can find them here: Test 1, Test 2, and Test 3. In those trials I used the very claims of Frito-Lay to test the compostability of the *new* SunChips bags. My first trial received a lot of online [...]

For whatever reason, Pan and I have talked about soda multiple times the past few days. We really don’t drink it. Yes, when we have the occasional movie date we have the occasional Cherry Coke (something about fountain drinks, I think). Of course that is ONLY to wash down the occasional swedish fish and reeses [...]

Did I ever tell you about the time I bought a loud bag of chips from the camp store in Panama City, Florida, primarily on the premise that for a few cents more the bag was 100% compostable and environmentally friendly? No? Well, let me tell you about it. It all started in May when [...]

This weekend seemed a bit excessive. We took the car out 6 times and 4 of those were to the grocery store. We ended up having a bit of a canning-palooza and found ourselves needing more supplies than we could remember when we even wrote our list. So what did we do to offset those [...]

All good things come to those who wait we are told. Patience is a virtue. Time heals everything. No matter what adage you apply to the situation SunChips compostable bags are just not that impressive. You may remember my initial dealing with Frito-Lay and their SunChips promise. If not, you can read it all here. [...]