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Until recently, I never really invested in high-quality snow gear - I just patched and pieced together unfashionable hand-me-down ski sweaters and jackets, layered on plain cotton socks (lots), and threw a few mismatched hat-glove-scarf combinations over the top.

And although I now have a great, ventilated ski jacket, a pair of ultrainsulating socks, and waterproof gloves - all of which make spending time outside that much more comfortable - at the end of the day, as long as you're warm enough, don't worry about what you wear, just get outside and play.

There's no better way to celebrate the fight against global warming than taking a snow day.

-Jenifer Morgan...off to go walkin' in a winter wonderland... Read the full post... 

Until recently, I never really invested in high-quality snow gear - I just patched and pieced together unfashionable hand-me-down ski sweaters and jackets, layered on plain cotton socks (lots), and threw a few mismatched hat-glove-scarf combinations over the top.

And although I now have a great, ventilated ski jacket, a pair of ultrainsulating socks, and waterproof gloves - all of which make spending time outside that much more comfortable - at the end of the day, as long as you're warm enough, don't worry about what you wear, just get outside and play.

There's no better way to celebrate the fight against global warming than taking a snow day.

-Jenifer Morgan...off to go walkin' in a winter wonderland... Read the full post... 

Little known fact: Jenifer M - our Senior Editor (and assigner of blog topics) here at the Bite - was my best friend when I was eight years old.  She moved away while we were in our early teens (drama, tears, lots of letters), and we lost touch a bit throughout high school and college.  Years later, we lived together for a couple of years in our early 20s, clumsily attempting to make a tinderbox San Francisco flat into something livable and charming and (long shot) cool.  Because of this early familiarity, we have keen insights into what makes the other person tick.

Some people consider this long-term knowledge to be an asset in the workplace. 

Others simply think of it as blackmail fodder.

Instead of using that fact as an excuse to throw Jeni-who-wore-unicorn-tee-shirts-her-entire-childhood under a bus for making me write a blog about yarn, of all Read the full post... 

OK, before you start hollering that we shouldn’t be promoting cigarettes in a green-living email, I want to throw a little reminder out there:  We never said that we were going to be “eco-living tips for perfect people.”

No, neither Jen nor I smokes.  But we both do a lot of other things that might kill us or affect the people around us, and, well, that isn’t going to change completely anytime soon (well, ever, really).  And in the end, we both just hope that we can adopt more sustainable versions of our vices so that – inch by inch – we better ourselves and the world.

We call this incremental environmentalism… the way that a single small change leads to another one, and then another, until – en masse – we see this snowball effect to a more healthy lifestyle for us and the planet.

So to all the people I know and love who smoke – sure, I’d rather you quit.  But if

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