Just a couple pics here, taken from my apartment. We’re currently in the midst of one of the biggest snowstorms in six decades — but that doesn’t stop us Canadians from riding our bikes! (See the bottom of the second photo, below) I’m glad I’ve got plenty of fair-trade hot chocolate.
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I’m all for using towels until they’re crusty and threadbare, but eventually there comes a time when you just have to replace them. A couple of my towels, for instance, were passed down to me by my parents a few years ago, and they’d already been using them for another few years. It was starting to feel like I was drying myself off with cardboard.
So I decided to get another towel, but this time made sure it fulfilled all my eco-criteria. It’s no surprise that good old Grassroots came through again with their organic cotton towels made by Coyuchi, the same company that made my bed linens.
As well as being chemical-free, these towels are also unbleached, which means there was no dioxin pollution in the manufacturing process, plus organic cotton lasts twice as long as regular cotton, and apparently gets softer with every wash (we’ll have to see about that, though – Toronto’s water can be pretty hard).
The only downside with this purchase is, a single bath towel sold for $40 plus tax, which is crazy. I mean, in the States that’s like $100 now, right?
Image courtesy of Grassroots
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