When you think of environmentalist, what do you think of? Me, I think of a granola eating, tennis shoes wearing, dreadlocks sporting feminist. The combination of stereotype tree hugger with “it’s just too out of the way” hinders many people from environmentalism. The truth is, there are so many easy ways to help the environment that aren’t out of the way.

So, can you wear high heels and lips gloss and still care about the planet? Yes.

Sprig

What it has: Food Fashion Beauty Home and Lifestyle
What it is: Sprig is an eco-friendly online store, whose goal is to provide the public with easily change lives to be more environmentally friendly! (more…)

In my last entry I poked fun at the End World Hunger ribbons so many people (*coughn00bscough*) put in the upper corners of the websites? Well, as luck would have it I found this website that can help me in my contribution to end world poverty and not include that ridiculous ribbon on my website.

The website is Freerice.com. Freerice allows anyone to visit the site and donate rice to people in need for free. How does it work? Well, this is the cool part. Freerice doesn’t only help end world hunger, it also helps educate. It’s a game that builds your vocabulary and challenges your mind. You may be familiar with it if you’ve ever taken an English test. It’s a simple game of anagrams. The levels increase with 5 correct answers. For one correct answer you donate 20 grains of rice to the UN to distribute to people in need. What could be cooler than that? So far my highest level has been 32 and I’ve donated 2340 grains of rice. I challenge anyone to beat this score without using external help (wikipedia, dictionary.com, et cetera). I’m sure it’s not the highest score, but I’m a little proud of it. I have to admit, the “game” itself is a little addicting.

I do have a concern with “ending world hunger”, simply because hunger isn’t something that can end. Hunger is something that will continue forever, not matter what. I also don’t like the movement because of the motivations of some of the people who support it, mostly my peers. It is almost as if people support this and anti-globalwarming movements because it’s trendy. Please remember that when you set out to do something like this, do it because you want to help people not be trendy. Also, remember to fully research any movement or group that you’re supporting.

To see more about helping others around the world, visit Poverty.com.

Now playing: My Chemical Romance - The Sharpest Lives

I know I’ve been writing about “boring” or “nerdy” things. I swear to God it’s only for Google hits. Anyway, this basically sums up what I was going to write next. If you’re a YouTube or Myspace fan, please watch it…

What do you think about this? How do you think it will effect the Internet and copyright laws? How do you think YouTube and other sites like it will look in a year?

P.S.

I promise to have a non-related topic next entry. I have a good one too. By the way, if you’re interested in being featured in my sidebar, give me a hollar.

You can’t imagine how liberating it feels to have a job, even if it’s only part time. Working for your own pay check is simply wonderful. However, I must inform you never to work in retail. I’m sure there are much worse jobs such as being Sunshine Kids’ custodian or maybe the poor soul who scrapes gum off of the bottom of Wal*Mart’s toilets. But short of those jobs; never work in children’s retail if you can help it.

It’s not my co-workers or the environment. My work is more invigorating than most, nay it’s the customers themselves. Not all the customers mind you, some are nice and even fewer are down right pleasant. It’s not even the soccer moms who make a salesperson’s job slightly intolerable, it’s the mom who wants the hoodie in the biggest size (which means it’s in the back of the very top rack) then upon further inspection (and you making yourself look like an idiot using a giant claw to retrieve the hoodie of choice) deciding not to buy it after all. This my friends, has not happened once twice or even three times, it’s happened four just in the two days of my employment at Osh Kosh. My outlet mall Osh Kosh B’Gosh has to be the most well stocked store I have EVER been to. It also has possibly the best customer program in the history of man kind. I’ve never seen a bigger selection, better price, cleaner store, and more friendly salespeople than at this particular children’s outlet store. Still, no matter how hard my co-employees seem to work it doesn’t seem good enough for that very explicit group of parents who want that last pink skirt on the rack but in a size up. Like I said before, it is an excellent place to work please excuse my ability (nay, superpower) to exaggerate. I’m very happy to be working at a place with A/C and nice co-workers. (more…)