Make your own mesh bags! Easy!

Here's my solution for using plastic bags for bulk food and fruit etc: Make your own bags in no time out of meshy fabric! They weigh almost nothing, can be washed, used over and over, and take up no space in your purse or nap-sac! And it only took me a few minutes to make two of them. I'm going to make more though. 1. Just cut out the size you want (one long rectangle works best so that you don't have to sew the bottom). 2. Fold the long rectangle in half so both ends are touching, and then 3. simply sew a straight line up both sides. 4. Finish them off with a zig-zag stitch over what you have already sewn to strengthen the bag, and leave the top unsown (doesn't need anything). Go for it!

You can also buy them from places like Grass Roots (in Toronto), and other eco shops if you don't have a sewing maching (or if you're a bit lazy), but they're a little pricy if you ask me. But then again you are saving yourself from using plastic bags that never biodegrade... ever.

Wind Power: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm and Business... by Paul Gipe

This is a photo i took on the way back from Thunder Bay of a huge field filled with wind mills. You can't really tell from the picture but there were dozens of them in two fields.

We just got a book in the store that, those of you who are interested in exploring wind power, might want to seriously have a look at. This is the completely revised and expanded edition, and it goes into great detail about actually setting up wind power systems yourself. I haven't read it yet, but it looks like the most comprehensive book I've seen on the subject from what I can tell.

Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water

Well I've decided to say a little blurb about different books I like in the shop from time to time.
This is part of the back cover of the book Blue Gold, The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water: (by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke):
"Water is our most important resource; we literally cannot live without it. And yet, in almost every region of the world, it is being used up faster than it can be replaced. Alarmingly, a number of transnational corporations are positioning themselves to profit from water scarcity and are taking ownership of a resource that should never be sold into private hands."

Blue Gold goes into the grassroots movements that are fighting for people's rights to fresh water, and how we can help, in one manner, by choosing not to support certain corporations.

This book has received much attention and has become an international bestseller, so it has been updated from it's original form. Read it and find out what's been going on for yourself!