Hey, everyone! The blog posts have been rather few and far between this winter – we’ve been busy ramping up: first as a 5-days-a-week shop, and more recently, with our…

“Populations that deal with waste are tagged as dirty through their material association with trash (scavengers, trash collectors, recycler) (Gidwani and Reddy 2011).” In this article, Mohammed Rafi Arefin highlights…

A couple of weeks ago, I compiled a list of local (Minneapolis/Saint Paul) agencies who are able (and eager) to use specific items without a ‘must be new’ requirement, listed by types…

The jumble in my head is starting to line up: For-profit benefits + non-profit incentives + tax benefits (er, unchecked tax fraud) here = continued/enabled environmental abuses + labor abuses…

Today, I completed my taxes for FY14 — nearly two months ahead of schedule, and with very little anxiety or labor invested. I can’t even believe that I’m not poring…