[Part of my challenge to give something away every day for 29 days]

Easy way to get yourself to give: Give yourself something too.

So I just bought myself a special pair of shoes — Simple Shoes’ “Stop Global Warming” edition Women’s Retire shoes, to be exact. The shoes cost $60 — $5 of which goes directly to StopGlobalWarming.org. You know, the virtual march thing that started up with “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Don’t worry — This wasn’t an impulse buy. Due to the continuing knee probs I’ve been having, I finally ended up getting orthotics — and needed shoes that’ll actually work with them (right now, they only work in my running shoes).

These Simple Retire shoes are very eco too, being made of hemp, organic cotton, recycled PET, recycled car tire, and 100% post consumer paper pulp. From all the reviews I’ve read, the shoes are supposed to be super comfy; a full review to come once I try them out.

And that $5 to StopGlobalWarming.org officially got my giving challenge started :)

My one beef of sorts with the virtual march thing — Is it just me, or are there way too many Gore-related websites that encourage you to stand up and be counted as an environmentalist (i.e. sign up and get frequent emails)?

I mean, Gore’s film basically got StopGlobalWarming.org — which now has 1,054,379 virtual marchers — started. Then Gore promoted the Alliance for Climate Protection, which all were encouraged to sign up for too. Now, Gore’s also the dude who got the more recent We Can Solve It dealio started, which also invites you to join and be counted among what will hopefully be millions of Americans. Al, count me in already –

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