Because 2 days is never enough.

I have a new must read blog in my life. Sew Green is a group of women who met through craft blogs and realized they had a shared interested in living more environmentally sustainable lives. In an early post, one contributor describes the site’s mission,

I think most people in the world want to live more environmentally responsibly, but there are so many obstacles to doing this. Hopefully this blog will be a way for us to remove some of those obstacles for ourselves and each other, by sharing what we’re learning and figuring out who to try to influence {industry people, institutions, politicians} on a grander scale, to affect change.

What is so awesome about Sew Green is that the contributors aren’t preachy or self-righteous about their goal to reduce their footprint on the earth. Their earnestness comes with equal parts DIY delight and girliness. Recent posts that caught my eye had to do with finding organic and sustainable yarns for knitting, suggestions for cutie pie little boutiques that carry local designers and environmentally friendly fabrics, ideas about non-toxic nail polish, and recipes for homemade bathroom cleaners. So far, I’ve learned some things I didn’t know and gotten a lot of good ideas.

The toughest (and best) thing about the blog is that once you learn something, it’s harder to plead ignorance and keep doing things the easy way.