Safe Sex, Not so Safe Fashion?

Brazilian Greenpeace activist turned fashion designer, Adriana Bertini has spent the past ten years creating dresses, skirts, and suits made entirely from quality test rejected condoms.

Props to Adriana for using condoms that would otherwise end up in a land fill and simultaneously raising AIDS awareness.

On whether or not she'd actually wear the dresses:
Katita says,"id love to say i would....but i dont think i could wear a condom dress"

Meet up for drinks with other Environmentally Bent Buddies...

The 2nd Tuesday of every month say Cheers! with others in the green community of NYC

Events:

Tuesday November 13, 2007 at "THE PARK"! 118 West 10th Ave at 18th street. see website for more info: www.theparknyc.com, a favorite venue of green drinkers! Come on down for a great evening of mingling and networking in the Atrium and Red Room
Tuesday Dec 11th for our BIG GREEN HOLIDAY PARTY at BLVD! 199 Bowery Street at Spring. See website http://www.blvdnyc.com/ We found a fab space big enough to hold everyone with many smaller rooms to mingle and mill about. We will have a Silent Auction and give away free Raffle prizes and organic appetizers. Great music and networking with your favorite Green Community in NYC.
Tuesday January 8th, 2008 at EyeBeam from 6-10pm
Tuesday February 12, 2008 from 6-10pm at "Greenroom", 205 Mulberry Street between Spring and Kenmare in Soho, NYC tel: 212.334.0288 see website : www.greenroomsoho.org

See greendrinks.org for official details
Greendrinks works with the venue to be sure the event is as green as possible from cups, napkins, signs, all from post-consumer content, to being a carbon-neutral event ( like last year). The food is donated from local organic restaurants, and the venue is cleaned with non-toxic cleaning products before and after the event.

Bartiromo proves all PR is good PR

Bill Carter of the Times writes today of the rapid ascent of Maria Bartiromo's career in the midst of the controversy surrounding her little jet ride with Citigroup CEO Charles Prince.

Though I'm currently feeling tender towards her as a woman who has risen to the top of a previously male-dominated career, as well as being a target of gawker's snarky wiles (and who isn't eventually) I'd also like to let her know that I am fickle and will revoke all prior tenderness should she make the slightest misstep, as I have been known to do for Hillary, Lohan, J. Reno and people with French botanically-inclined names...

-gleam

Turn down the thermostat and turn up the heat!

Green Sexy Toys

A few fearless ways to feel a bit more eco-friendly in bed

Ever thought about the toxins in your sex toys? Check the ingredients on your next anal beads purchase. Most sex toys are made with phthalates, a substance used to soften hard plastics like toxin releasing PVCs and provide that jelly feeling you may crave.. Recently there's been quite a stir over the toxicity and health risks of phthalates as they are currently banned by the EU in the manufacturing of children's toys and even more important minute levels of some phthalates have been linked to sperm damage in men. Tony Levine, founder of Big Teaze Toys, says he's made his products -- including the cutely discreet, soft-plastic vibra "I rub my duckie"--is phthalate-free from the start. "While working at Mattel as a toy designer, I was made very aware of the concerns of using only safe materials for children's products," he says. "This training has stuck with me ... We take great pride in using only the materials which meet strict toxicity safety standards for both the U.S. and the E.U."

Herbs to Spark the Passion: ginseng, kava kava root, damiana leaves, kelp, tribulus, ginko biloba, rhodiola rosea, and of course horny goat weed

Double click your mouse for other fabulously safe toys:

1. The rabbit, made famous on Sex&theCity -all new and made with eco-safe materials
2. A whole slew of safe products on SmittenKitten.com
3. Organic lube


(from treehugger.com and various other news sources)

Muzzy Makes CNN's Top Ten!

Today's CNN article puts the Newfie at #7

No. 7. Newfoundland saves Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte owed his life to a nameless Newfoundland. As Bonaparte fled the island of Elba in 1815, where he was exiled, choppy seas pitched him overboard. A fisherman's dog jumped in after the drowning despot and kept him afloat. Napoleon lived to experience his own defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.



Ten dogs that changed the world

Newfies, known for jumping out of helicopters and rescuing drowning fishermen, are excellent swimmers. They come equipped with webbed feet and water resistant coats.

Famed photographer, Bruce Weber, published a book dedicated to the Newfoundland, called Gentle Giants

Lord Byron adored his pet Newfoundland dog, Boatswain. The monument to his beloved pet's memory still stands in the garden of Byron's ancestral home, Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire, England. Click here to read his memorial

"A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull me out of a ditch if I should ever fall into one. I can find you a Newfoundland dog that will do as much." Henry David Thoreau

Do Not Eat. THROW AWAY!

Ever wonder what those little packets of beaded crap are always doing in your delivery package? They look small and cheap and bad for the environment... because they are. After a quick trip to howstuffworks.com

What are these little stupid bagged beads?

Silica gel is synthetically produced from silicon dioxide in the form of stupid little beads.The reason manufacturers use these beads is because they are a desiccant, which means it absorbs and holds water vapor.In fact, according to howstuffworks.com, silica gel is a particularly efficient desiccant because they can absorb up to forty percent of their own weight.

Silica gel can be regenerated and reused. Heating the silica gel (in the microwave) will dry off the absorbed moisture. Using these beads to dry flowers for arrangements is one good use.

Recycling Oeniophilas

According to the Audubon Magazine, “Corks are 100 percent natural, recyclable, and biodegradable.” Wine and Champagne cork recycling is a common practice in both Australia and Europe, but the U.S. lags behind. A company called Yemm & Hart, located in Missouri, recycles these corks and furthermore they are working to develop new materials from the corks.



Mail your wine corks to:
Wine Cork Recycling
Yemm & Hart Ltd
610 South Chamber Dr
Fredericktown MO 63645