A little dose of green in honor of Saint Patty's Day...

Reduce, Re-Use, Recycle.

As easy to say as it is to do nowadays. Switch off the lights in the empty room, weather strip your doors, change air filters often, use vinegar and baking soda as cleaning agents, and of course, my favorite, BUY VINTAGE!!!!

Everyone has heard that buying Vintage helps reduce your Carbon Footprint. But WTF is your Carbon Footprint?!? Settle down a bit, and I will explain.
A carbon footprint is the total set of green house gas (GHG- water vapors, carbon dioxide, CFC’s etc) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product. So basically, if you are a Wasteful Winston (thanks Garbage pail kids) who thinks its perfectly acceptable to drive across the street while leaving the faucet and every electronic device on, just to buy the most chemically enhanced cleaning product…then you will have a larger Carbon Footprint than Mindful Mindy who’s idea of a great day is riding her bicycle to a nearby restaurant that serves seasonal food provided by local farmers.

When you buy vintage, you are recycling. (Just check out that picture above, imagine the treasures that might being thrown out everyday instead of being re-used.) It also cuts out the use of sweatshop labor, or any negative practices being used to pump out as much as you can, as fast as you can, for the very hungry consumers. There is no gain for the major corporation that mass produces their clothing, or that uses harmful dyes. The average conventional cotton t-shirt takes 150 grams of pesticides to produce. Nutty, huh?

So the moral of this story, is continue to buy vintage, and you will continue to stick it to the man!! Along with the other perks like, being original, it was made with love and also made to last the test of time.