Have you ever thought that your excess homestuff would be not just needed, but URGENTLY NEEDED by someone just a UPS jaunt away? Spring is nearly upon us; no time like the present to begin the year’s decumulatory gesturing. Now hear this from the Bayou.
These are extremely urgent needs:

Building materials, tools, saws, hammer/nails/screws, plywood, lumber, [...]

In the spirit of decumulation, dematerialization, and just generally getting out from underneath the heap of crap that seems to fall endlessly from the heavens (help us), I imagine a post-shampoo existence. Those that know me and my hair well might imagine that I have already imagined just such an existence. And in truth, I [...]

The Xtracycle/Ginger Ninjas motor vehicle, Millie the Millennium Van, was first put on a diet of recycled fryer grease beginning in 2002. Millie is a ‘74 schoolbus outfitted for bringing the show on the road, as she has been faithfully doing since her (re)birth on the Millennial New Years. In her conversion experience, Ross [...]

Most people end up with more stuff at the end of a particular day. Many natural and cultural forces conspire to fill our lives with an abundance of things, and to keep filling, even when appearances would seem to suggest the vessel is already full.
If the vessel be one’s house, the potential accumulation is primarily [...]

While we’re on the subject of book buying….before I joined Ross to launch Xtracycle I was thinking of starting a dot-com like everyone else I knew. It would be like Amazon but instead of putting little bookstores out of business it would help keep them running, maybe even make them stronger. And it would have [...]

I don’t know. But they both remind me of one of my favorite books. Probably one of the first books any aspiring environmental impact minimizer should buy, read, and read again in a couple of months. It’s called the Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices (put out by an awesome group called the Union of [...]

So you want to watch our show but you don’t have a t.v. or you don’t get MTV. What to do? I’d feel bad if we became a force for more people having TVs! But good if you took this opportunity to get to know a neighbor. My mom reports meeting a couple of new [...]

Our New Campaign to Take Over Personal Communications
I got tired of losing all my addresses in one fell swoop when my address book disappeared. And I don’t fancy carrying around some gizmo that I could easily lose to keep track of my phone numbers. I want fewer gizmos in my life, not more. And I [...]

I like drinking out of glass. It feels like it doesn’t impart any flavor or smell to the quaffed liquid, and it has a certain cleaness. Old quart mason jars work great, and they fit a lot compared to a dainty little teacup. Laughter, the office queen at Xtracycle, makes custom holders for almost any [...]