Photo credit topgold via flickr. Last year at around the start of school, I just said no to new school supplies. We went through our house and found 90% of the supplies we needed (the pencils we gathered were a combination of unused and stubs we resharpened) and went out for a treat on the money we “saved.” This year, living back in the U.S. the list of “required” supplies was longer and more specific (“2 granola bars, no nuts???”), leading me to ask myself: “Is my kid really going to use these 50 pencils I’m providing?” and more importantly, “Why are schools’ a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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2 Billion Pencils* and A School Supply Quandary
