food = the new indie rock?

The indie music scene finds ownership and means of production to be ethical issues, preferring small independent local operations to large corporations. Indie values include DIY aesthetics, simplicity, purity, an antipathy to the synthetic and manufactured, a desire for authenticity, a longing for the past...

These concerns are shared by new hip food obsessives who want to know how food is made, where it comes from, how far it travels and how much integrity it has.... If you are paying attention to food production and consumption isn't that similar to paying attention to how your music is made, who owns it, and how it is delivered to you?

 full article on treehugger

You spin me right round, baby. Right round like a record, baby.

 

November 15 (hey, that's tomorrow!) is America Recycles Day, the only nationally recognized day dedicated to the promotion of recycling programs in the United States. Please remember this as you go about your day and tell all of your friends (but in the totally chill "I'm not a crazy environmentalist, I promise" kind of way).

America Recycles Day
Not sure what's recyclable and where to recycle it near you? Check this out

Bag it!

Bag It Intro from Suzan Beraza on Vimeo.

Heyyyy, they used Edward Sharpe. Sold. 

Read this and make sure to have some french fries handy.

Greg Melville's Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a Greener Future

Sweet on digestion, not so sweet for the earth.

For a mere $3 you can have twenty individually-wrapped prunes.
Wrapped in plastic. In a plastic container. Double-U-tee-eff!

"Kids will think they're candy!" says the Sunsweet Ones advertisement. Oh yeah? Those kids are going to toss those wrappers on the ground, probably on the way to the toilet.

Boo on you, prune people. Boo. on. you.