alternativeoperations asked: I saw the picture of your backpack, and I'd like to recommend using Eagle Creek's Pack-It System (http://www.eaglecreek.com/packing_solutions/). I'm fairly certain it will change your life!
I fell in love with the Pack-It cubes and Pack-It sacks during my recent around-the-world trip, and I refuse to travel without them now, even on short trips.
Separation, compartmentalization, organization! You'll never again have to rip your bag apart looking for the one item that's slipped to the bottom.
P.S. - Your blog rocks!
Thanks for tip!
I think the picture you’re referring to is actually an Eagle Creek pack (mesh compartment)… right before I put into my backpack. They seemed to have revamped their look as well diversify utility and sizes of what they offer nowadays.
My Eagle Creek’s products have held up wonderfully. I seemed have inadvertently collected enough of their packs to the point where I’ve put together my own “pack-it” solution that works well for me. One or two for base-layer clothing, one for miscellaneous gear or objects that typically get lost, and a smaller Sea To Summit toiletries bag.
I do highly recommend utilizing a packing solution much like what Eagle creek has put together for you here. Like alternativeoperations said “ I’m fairly certain it will change your life!”.
P.S. - Right back at you. Your blog rolls! Seriously, keep it going.
![thedailywhat:
Green Initiative of the Day: It was announced yesterday that PepsiCo will soon begin manufacturing a biodegradable bottle composed entirely of plant material — this despite Coca-Cola Co.’s recent assertion that it would be years before a 100% plant-based bottle could be produced.
Materials used include switch grass, pine bark, and corn husks. PepsiCo plans to eventually begin incorporating organic leftovers from its food business.
According to PepsiCo senior VP of advanced research Rocco Papalia, the way the new PET bottles feel and protect their contents is indistinguishable from their plastic siblings. “We’ve cracked the code,” he is quoted as saying. “It’s a beautiful thing to behold.”
[ap via csm.]
This is a huge deal. While it’s still a mass produced bottle, it’s evidence that a large corporation can innovate towards a direction where the product can have a complete life cycle that includes a natural degradation process. As most of what we produce, plastics take an un-natural lifespan to decay… and even then, what was decaying wasn’t anything the Earth’s natural biosystems could collect and re-use on it’s own (at least within a reasonable time frame). And if it’s true, that they’ve created something biodegradable, we are another small step towards becoming as efficient as our nature counterparts, a system that produces no un-usable waste.
Now, my less optimistic nit-picky qualms:
While named third in the list of the bottle’s manufactured contents, I predict that a large portion of the bottle’s contents is corn husks. Farm production of corn is amassing it’s own set of environmental problems… mostly to maintain our culture’s fast food bingeing. Perhaps, Pepsi’s next step could be lessening it’s use of corn in it’s product altogether, bottle and soda contents.
And now the thing I’m stuck with is why isn’t all of the soda’s contents, the thing we ingest, as natural it’s container?](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li5swlUIZF1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
