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A bit of sneaky activity. Me and my friend chucked up this banner on the fence facing a main road. We hope that lots of people have seen it.

Free to be green.

In order to be green-recycle-people and also for the sake of fashion (mainly) we have decided to host a swap party. A swap party requires a few guests (the more, the merrier) and perhaps a bit of food to snack upon. Each person then brings several items of clothing, this can range from shoes to belts to shirt. All items will then be placed on a table and all of the "swappers' can then try on all the different items which they like. At the end it is decided who gets what. THe items that are left over are then donated to a charity of your choice.

Our party that we had was rather small but still highly enjoyable. May here scored a very cute shirt saying "free to be green" and I ended up with a pair of gladiator sandals (fake leather of course!). We snacked upon veggie spring rolls, cookies and sipped on our orange juice and water.

A pretty cool idea that can scored you a whole new outfit, while you discuss clothes with your mates AND you're recycling at the same time. Can it get any better?

Organic Care

My new shampoo discovery. This shampoo is THE BOMB!
Not only is it made from plants but its also free of all the pesky chemicals such as sodim lauryl, ammonium lauryl, mineral oil, parabens and dye.
It's also Vegan which means 100% cruelty free.
As the list goes on it states that it is grey water safe and to top it all off the entire bottle as well as the lable is made from plants.
The best thing is that it won't kill your budget and you don't have to travel far and wide to find a bottle. Just hop into your local Woolworths, IGA or Coles to grab a bottle.

Toms

Tom's sell shoes. BUT for every pair that you buy from Tom's, they will donate a pair of shoes to someone who really needs them. So if you're out looking for a new pair of shoes why not check out this site : www.tomsshoes.com and while you're checking that out also check this little promotional video by mitchell davis

Sewing

So i want to start sewing a lot more clothes for myself and mates. BUt i want to make all of them from organic fabrics or recycled ones. What are your suggestions on how to find these? Do you know a site that sells organic fabrics for not super over the top prices?

a MUST read.

This book was passed onto me by a fellow vegetarian. Her exact words were "you MUST read this". The book that she passed onto me, the one that i MUST read is The Ethics of what we Eat written by Peter Singer and Jim Mason. It is about how Peter Singer and his team go into three american families and follow them around on their shopping trips, only to then show them where and how thier "food" is produced. The three families are 1) A family following the standard American Diet aka SAD 2) The conscious omnivornes, a family that tries to make ethical choices but sometimes can't find the time or are too lazy to do it 100% of the time and 3) A vegan family that also buys organic whenever they can. Peter and his team then go and try to track down where this food came from, is the "humanely produced" bacon really humane and how is that milk produced that the SAD family just bought?

So far i've gotten through this book a bit more than halfway and its still very interesting to read. Its not your boring state heaps of facts now turn vegetarian kinda book. More of a we're going to state the facts, do a bit more investigationing and then you can decide for yourself what you're going to take out of reading this.

A great present for anyone who is interested in the subject or who want to be more informed about animal welfare and factory farming.

"I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur."

Does that sound cringe-worthy to you? Well I guess that I too would strip down if it helped to stop the fur industry. Here's the article posted on the PETA website.

As one of the stars of the Twilight Saga, Christian Serratos is used to working with vampires and the nonliving—but she would never wear anything dead. Christian strips down in the name of animals and is telling her fans, "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur."

Each year millions of animals are killed for their fur. Rabbits, foxes, minks, dogs, cats, chinchillas, and other animals are bludgeoned, strangled, drowned, poisoned, stomped to death, or electrocuted, or they have their necks broken, all in the name of fashion. Many are even skinned alive.

In the wild, animals can suffer for days in steel-jaw traps before they are killed. Animals raised on fur farms spend their whole miserable existence in tiny, wire cages where they are exposed to all weather extremes.

Christian explained, "I've always been opposed to slaughtering, eating, wearing carcass."
So here's the vid:

; PETAAsiaPacific.com.