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Japanese Eco-Gifting: It's A Wrap

Japanese culture has no need for wrapping paper, so why should we? We have to applaud any way of preventing all that glo…

Last year, at my old workplace, I raided the trash. I couldn’t resist. Horrified by the amount of perfectly reusab…

I revealed to you my unusual love of laundry in Stay on the Line, and my musings on our general obsession with whitening…

Here in Colorado, spring nights are still chilly, with temperatures below 30 degrees; March and April are our snowiest m…

Could you gaze at a Rothko painting for hours? Are you passionate about color, inspired and energized by it? If so, do s…

In the Acholi Quarter of the Ugandan capital Kampala, recycled paper is saving lives. This community, in political langu…

Breakfast is for having fun. No, really. You’re yawning and bleary and generally not with it. You trip on your bag…

The Greeks are wonderfully laid-back. Last summer, I discovered why. I noticed it in a coffee shop on my first evening i…