The Worsted Witch is one of my favorite blogs. The author, Jasmine, combines more interests of mine together on one blog than any other blog I know of such: knitting, the environment, eating locally and voluntary simplicity along with many other topics. Here are some of my favorite posts that I’ve saved:

* Zhena’s Gypsy Tea - “Not only is Zhena’s a woman-owned business—she started out pedaling from a cart—but its teas are also organic- and fair-trade certified. The Ojai, Calif.-based company buys wind power through the purchase of green tags to offset its carbon footprint. And the reusable, refillable, and recyclable tins, which are made in a fair-trade facility in China, are absolutely luscious to behold.”

* Yahoo’s Green House - “Yahoo, which recently went carbon neutral, has a pretty nifty interactive walkthrough of an eco-friendly abode on its Earth Day mini-site. The tips are concise, as well as instructive without being too technical—nothing that will have you screaming for the hills, raging about those damn dirty hippies, anyway.”

* The Deadly Chemicals in Cotton

* Hub’s Guest Review: Larry’s Beans - “All of Larry’s Beans coffee is shade-grown and certified organic (or transitional organic); 97 percent is fair trade, while the remaining 3 percent is the company’s Kauai Blend from Hawaii, where it says there is no need for fair trade.” ” We also dug the fact that the bags (with designs that rocked my illustration-loving socks off) were resealable—a minor, oft-overlooked detail, but one that enables the packaging to be reused, even long after the last cup of coffee has been drained.”

* A Greener Delivery - “Sometimes we can’t help but order something online, especially when we can’t get something we need in a nearby bricks-and-mortar store. But rather than encourage excessive waste and nonbiodegradable, polluting packing materials such as styrofoam peanuts—plus your inclusion on catalog and junk-mail lists—you can make yourself heard by including a note with your online order”

* Fight Grime, Twist and Shout - “Twist, a new eco-friendly household products company, might be onto something, although it’s not without its shortfalls. The Boulder, Colo.-based outfit has sent out into the marketplace a 100 percent all-natural and biodegradable Loofah Sponge ($4.99 for a pack of two) that is part cellulose-cotton sponge and part Loofah plant fiber. (The cellulose comprises tree fibers from renewable-tree farms.)”

* New at Tenth and Grant - “six new notebooks […] printed with soy inks on recycled paper and chipboard.”

* Tips for the Frugal, Luxurious Life - “Someone asked me if Frugal Luxuries, which I quoted from earlier, trod the same ground as Your Money or Your Life—it almost seemed that way in the beginning, but as Tracey McBride began to neatly (and maternally) check off the different aspects of frugal living—from finances to food to your wardrobe—while drawing from her family’s experiences, it became clear that hers was more reminiscent of the housekeeping manuals of the past, updated for our post-Susan B. Anthony era, of course. “