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The Conscientious Christmas Challenge

In this economy, it’s tough to be moral and broke. I want to support small businesses and independent artists, and buy Organic and Fair Trade, but very often it’s less costly and time consuming to shop at a big chain store or dollar stores and buy store-brand goods. The problem is that many big [...]

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(<) less.

(<) is the international symbol for “less than,” which many of you may remember from math class. It’s also seeking to become “an internationally recognized symbol, like the peace sign, but for a new generation grappling with sustainability.” (<) or Less is the world’s first open-source brand owned by no one and free for [...]

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Friday Faves 1.22.10

I had a lot of things I wanted to talk about today, but I was able to narrow it down to just four. Here goes!

1. “Aim and Ignite” album by fun. I’ve been gabbing about this nonstop on twitter and I mentioned it in my post on Monday. I love love love this [...]

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Gelato, Baby!: Alissa Walker’s Unique Blogging Voice.

One of the first {and most important} pieces of advice my boss gave me when I shared with her my & Mish’s idea for poorandpretty.com was to “find a unique voice” or, in this case, voices. I read bunches of different blogs to try and find each blogger’s voice, but the person I watched [...]

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