Plastic has made poor peoples lives better. It has given them access to containers for liquid that they previously couldn’t afford. Let’s use buckets as an example....Read More
This post was originally published in August 2008. This is a test to see if I can republish it easily. If so I can have a new blog feature without too much work. Two questions about soap: What is Fren...Read More
Heather wanted to save the environment so she stopped using plastic straws, she went to a beach cleanup event, she signed a pledge to use less plastic and started using reusable grocery bags....Read More
I Googled “Straws and Pollution” and on the first page of results there were a lot of ads and links that said roughly the same thing. This one was particularly egregious....Read More
This is not a simple story with a shockingly memorable video. It is a collection of facts. I want to persuade you to direct your environmental attention into actions that will have a real effect on th...Read More
I wrote a blog post in February of 2008 warning that Plastic Straws were an Environmental Abomination. https://simonburrow.com/?p=604 Straws in Water My opinion about straws and other environmental iss...Read More
I got this postcard from a Postcrossing connection last week. The card is from the early 1960’s and it shows the intersection of the Pasadena and Hollywood freeways. But what it’s says on ...Read More
When I arrived to lunch with my new book group most of the men were already there and the conversation had already turned to health issues. Frank, my friend who I’d come in with, leaned over and...Read More
We went to the beautiful wedding of Matthew and Natalia last week and the woman who was officiating was talking about how neither good times nor bad times last forever....Read More