I got my personalized We Add Up tee shirt today, and I just had to show off my new apparel.
I chose the “Plant Trees” tee, so my purchase sent $3 dollars to Sustainable Harvest International, an organization that provides farming families in Central America with the training and tools to overcome poverty while restoring tropical […]

I’m a sucker for chocolate and hazelnut, so when I came across this Equal Exchange hazelnut chocolate bar last week in my local health food store, I just had to try it. Wow. The milk chocolate is rich and unbelievably smooth, with just enough hazelnut to add to the flavor without overpowering the chocolate. It’s […]

This morning, with very little effort, a few of my neighbors and I finally put a stop - at least temporarily - to our city’s inane policy of vulture harassment. And all it took was a little networking on Facebook, a few e-mails, and a phone call or two. Well, and a few years of […]

Solar rooftops: it’s a no-brainer. As I was flying into Phoenix last August over a sea of flat roofs - Target, Walmart and a zillion other big box stores and warehouses - I thought, “There oughta be solar panels on all those.” Maybe you’ve heard, Phoenix is known for getting a bit of sun. We […]

Ben & Jerry’s is finally going all the way: they announced last week that they will be completely Fair Trade by the end of 2013, with all flavors in all countries produced with Fair Trade Certified ingredients. As the first ice cream company to start using Fair Trade ingredients (in 2005), Ben & Jerry’s is […]

My five-year-old went to a friend’s birthday party yesterday, and the only gift he wanted us to bring was old shoes. Not for themselves, but for Soles4Souls, the organization currently working to send 1.3 million shoes to Haiti.
So we rummaged around in the back of my closet and dragged out 3 pairs of shoes that […]