Summer blockbuster from Greenpeace USA

Have you seen Wall*E yet? Turns out Kimberley Clark is using this movie about conservation to sell its Kleenex, which contains absolutely no recycled content.

Greenpeace finds this the height of Iron*E. They've commissioned a little animated video of their own to stir up some consumer pressure on Kimberley-Clark. Check it out and send a message to Kimberley-Clark suggesting they use recycled paper. And while we're at it, lets tell them to provide composting programs for their used Kleenex and other disposable "tissue" products.

There were almost 37,000 tonnes of "tissue/towelling" in our waste last year.

pic: CBC News

Rainy weekend? Chris Jordan fix.

Are you looking for an indoor get-away on this rainy weekend? Check out the Chris Jordan exhibit at the Windsor Gallery on Granville Street.

If you don't know who Chris Jordan is, read a good little write-up before you go on page 37 of today's Courier ~ not posted online yet. Jordan discovered he wasn't cut out for corporate law and instead started playing around with photography, going on to produce iconic images of our consumerism.

pic: Running the numbers: 2 million pop bottles ~ 5 minutes consumption in USA http://www.chrisjordan.com/