Posts tagged with "Clothing"

Fun with Powerpoint - Share Tompkins Presentation at Ignite Ithaca

By Shira | May 1, 10 04:59 PM

A few weeks ago, we were invited to do a 5-minute presentation about Share Tompkins at the first ever Ignite Ithaca. Check out the video below and watch some of the other awesome powerpoints on YouTube.

IGNITE ITHACA is a high-energy evening of 5-minute talks by people who have an idea and the guts to get onstage and share it with their hometown crowd. Run by local volunteers who are connected through the global IGNITE network, IGNITE is a force for raising the collective IQ and building connections. Via streaming and archived videos of local talks, local Ignites share all that knowledge and passion with the world.

I wrote an article about how to organize a community swap/barter meet for Shareable

By Shira | Feb 4, 10 12:47 PM

Shareable, a website that "tells the story of sharing,” invited me to write a how-to article for their site and I seized the opportunity in the hopes of inspiring similar efforts in other communities.

Read the article: How to Throw a Community Swap Meet

Drying for Freedom

By Shira | Aug 25, 09 04:42 PM

I just heard about this documentary from TreeHugger.com. I guess drying your clothes outside is a revolutionary act. It's crazy that we have to fight for the right to not destroy the planet. Anyone want to join my campaign to legalize composting toilets?

Ari and I finally got clothes-pins and started line-drying...

Vegan Treasures from My Mom

By Ari | Mar 17, 08 06:05 PM

My mom runs an online business selling vintage women's clothing: Vintage Lucy. I wanted to help her make the leap from eBay to her own shop, and I thought I could make her a PayPal shop using Movable Type - but I don't usually do jobs that involve animal exploitation, and Mom's amazing collection happens to contain some wool, leather, and feathers. I did end up making the site, and am now helping her do some outreach.

I have to admit that I'm really glad that I compromised my ideals to work with her on this site! 100% vegan though it may not be, it can help my mom make a living. And it so happens that Mom has become increasingly open to animal rights ideas over the years. She dabbles in vegetarianism and veganism and is constantly educating herself and changing; she cares for and loves many animals, and recently has done a little animal rights activism. She added a new category of items to her site called Vegan Treasures - as she points out, "wearing vintage & pre-worn is recycling, saving precious animals & the Earth." Check it out - there's some very beautiful stuff in there (all of the photos above are from this category): Vintage Lucy Vegan Treasures (No animal products used in these beauties.) Who knows, maybe this is only the tip of the vegan iceberg for my mom...

Crafting Protest

By Ari | Jan 27, 08 08:15 PM

knitting nation jumpsuit
Originally uploaded by Shira Golding

Yesterday Shira and I hit a panel at the New School called "Crafting Protest", the result of a collaboration between women working around the intersection of crafting and activism. Liz Collins, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Cat Mazza and Allison Smith showed us presentations on their amazing projects, and dropped some science.

Shira's Flickr photoset Crafting Protest at the New School - January 26, 2008 includes links to the panelists websites and such. And these are my drawings made while at the event:

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