Keeping warm

As our rainy season starts, the NY Times covers New Yorkers' reactions to sharp increases in natural gas and heating oil costs in an article entitled "Reaching for Blanket, Not Thermostat, as Days Cool and Oil Costs Rise". It advises: "At these oil prices, cashmere was starting to look affordable."

For the coffee drinkers out there, green LA girl is doing an extended series on fair-trade coffee (or lack thereof) at California Starbucks shops.