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An informed consumer is a true friend of the environment. But with the quantity of information floating about both online and through word-of-mouth, those wanting to make wise alternatives can very easily be overwhelmed and misled.
Thankfully, a brand new guide is out there to help! Calling itself the "ultimate eco-fiber reference guide for textiles professionals, design students, fashion and interior designers, product manufactures, and home sewers who want more environmentally responsible fabric options,"A Guide to Green Fabrics by Kristene Smith is a comprehensive tour guide to eco-friendly fabrics. I personally appreciate that this really is genuinely a book for everyone whether or not you are a member of a knitting circle or an aspiring fashion designer. We can all make a difference with our fabric choice.
As Smith states, "The textiles and apparel industry, with its massive economic engine, touches every life. From clothes and bedding to car interiors and medical supplies, textiles are indeed woven into our collective fabric of life." The production of textiles affects every person from the farmers who grow the crop to the factory worker that readies the fabric for the consumer who buys it. Smith acknowledges that a lot of consumers lack an overall understanding of how textiles impact the environment so "textile producers must take the lead in promoting these new innovations to attract like-minded consumers and their resources, and to educate customers on the benefits of going green."

Online writers' communities have become commonplace. A community of writers, all aspiring for publication or simply to reach a larger audience than the collection of their friends and loved ones can be a tremendous boost for a writer, because every writer needs an audience-even those who write simply because they 'can't not write'. For many aspiring authors, writing communities and critique partners are a great tool for validation of their craft.
Glowing reviews from peers tell you what works, confirm the correctness of the direction you chose and boost your morale as a writer. While praise is an ego booster, a writer always needs to be level-headed in order to remain focused and keep a consistent quality in one's writing. Reviews that provide technical corrections (i.e. spelling, punctuation, grammar, typos, homophones etc.) can help improve the quality of a writer's work.
The problem with writing communities is that feedback is given by writers of varying calibre. Some reviewers write suggestions as though they are law. They rate you down for trivial reasons like neglecting to mention that you're using non-US English, or because they couldn't pronounce your character's name.

With Blink, Malcolm Gladwell has attempted to quantify the phenomenon of the gut feeling. Malcolm Gladwell puts forth his thoughts on the feelings of intuition in a considerably more scientific way than many people thought possible, all while admitting to the shortcomings of science in this particular area. And although science cannot possibly hope to give us all of the answers within this discipline, Gladwell retains enough of the childlike sense of wonder about the topic to leave certain questions open to the child within us, maintaining that we do not have to know everything in order to use the information that we have.
Despite the book's quantitative shortcomings at times, there is no better statistician than Malcolm Gladwell in mainstream literary society today. While discussing the concept of intuition and the things that we gather from it, he puts forth many statistics that prove that intuition is a useful and even necessary tool for humans to use. As a matter of fact, in his book, the most scientific people sometimes must rely on intuition more than the average person, which leads to great breakthroughs when their intuition is finally proven correct after a passage of time.

In his impressive and successful novel, Hari Kunzru explores the nature of identity. For some people a sense of belonging is very strong, whereas for others such feelings are mere illusion. The former group may cite social group, language, culture or religion as evidence of their stance, while the latter group, perhaps, may cite exactly the same subject matter to prove the opposite. The more politically inclined may even cite our relationship to the means of production as the primary source or personal and social identity. In that case, the way that we make our living provides much of what we perceive as identity, and, in Hari Kunzru's book, The Impressionist works through several quite different lives.
It's not that The Impressionist, the principal character of Hari Kunzru's novel, has no identity. Indeed, The Impressionist has a whole host of them, and all of them are both complex and, at the same time, completely credible. It is those around him who endow him with the trappings that confirm who he is. And he, of course, responds, donning new lives according to each new coat he wears.