Oh, god.

[conuly]

Fixing pipe in the basement = mucho moola down the proverbial drain.

Oh, GOD.

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New York and Connecticut take action against food stamp cuts

http://bit.ly/MLmemr

The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary

Now I, of course, am all about my reusable menstrual products, but if disposable ones help reduce serious stigma so that women can go to school and work, well, that's for the best.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26260978

Let’s make an effort to move more freight by rail and less by road. Trains are more efficient.

http://wapo.st/MKKWn9

Russia sets sights on Ukraine warships as U.S. threatens economic punishment, Pentagon suspends military ties

http://nydn.us/1cyyais

If you can catch the beat, you might be able to exercise harder, better, faster, stronger.

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/248246221.html

Obama's budget would shift tax benefits from wealthy to poor

http://lat.ms/MLkh9x

Everything that’s wrong with the suburbs, in one image

http://grist.org/list/everything-thats-wrong-with-the-suburbs-in-one-image/

The Dalai Lama’s Ski Trip
What I learned in the slush with His Holiness.

http://slate.me/1jANRuE

Russia ties compound German dilemma in Ukraine crisis

http://reut.rs/OXoB7T

Man Buys 10.000 Undeveloped Negatives At a Local Auction and Discovers One of The Most Important Street Photographers of the Mid 20th Century

http://www.webburgr.com/vivian_maier/

Comments

[conuly]

I always like more information.

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

Here are links to many such projects. Many of these specify 'resuable'.

http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=africa+village+menstrual+pad+%22cow+in+it%22&first=9&FORM=PORE

In the article I remember, a reusable cloth bag contained the disposable ashes, sawdust, etc.

Ideally the bag was sewn by the woman herself using her usual sewing materials and method. the project also made bags to sell or give away, and gave away some of them finished, and gave demonstrations of how to make them.

Here is my gripe about articles such as the one you posted. For city women who are currently buying imported Kotex at high prices, Mr. M's machine can manufacture a cheaper and slightly better version of ... well, Kotex. But the article then jumps to dissing 'village women' who are currently making their own bags for ashes etc, or buying from other village women who are making them by hand with local materials. And the articles about Mr. M don't even mention the many projects helping the village women to do their own.