Simran Sethi – Life Cycle Series

Simran, our friend from the Eat Well Guided Tour of America last year, is penning a series of blogs on The Huffington Post called “Life Cycle.” She is analyzing our daily activities, addressing everything from shower heads to flushing pharmaceuticals down the toilet.

“In this Huffington Post series, Washburn University professor Sarah Smarsh and I will use daily American routines–from reading the paper over coffee to sweating over a yoga mat–as a springboard to tangible, important information on the Stuff of Life. Water bottles and wedding rings, DVDs and diapers, office chairs and chopsticks… They all have stories, and your life is their narrator.

A couple times a week, Sarah and I will take you from the fields and laboratories where materials are created, to the factories where raw inputs are transformed into products, to the ugly resting places of the roughly five pounds of trash you create per day (The good news: Nearly a third of it gets recycled. The bad news: Less than a third of it gets recycled.). To be sure, we won’t be offering tips here–just information for you to put in your pipe and maybe smoke, even pass to a friend.”

The most recent post is about yoga mats, something many of us use on a regular basis (to do our yoga just like the guy in the picture I suspect!). Simran and Sarah are dishing out the information, we have to put it into practice. Everybody go get your yoga rug!