Because I'm a hippie...

I found these awesome GreenToe shoes at Ross for $15, when they are normally $90 online! Yes, they are hemp. And the soles are repurposed tires. And they are super-comfy. Oh - and you can pull out the inserts and wash them if you have stinky feet like me!
The GreenToe website is here.
(yes, that's Buddy Beagle's belly behind the shoes)

Because I'm a designer, and a dork:

Milton Glaser :: 12 Steps on the Road to Hell

1. Designing a package to look bigger on the shelf.
2. Designing an ad for a slow, boring film to make it seem like a lighthearted comedy.
3. Designing a crest for a new vineyard to suggest that it has been in business for a long time.
4. Designing a jacket for a book whose sexual content you find personally repellent.
5. Designing a medal using steel from the World Trade Center to be sold as a profit-making souvenir of September 11.
6. Designing an advertising campaign for a company with a history of known discrimination in minority hiring.
7. Designing a package aimed at children for a cereal whose contents you know are low in nutritional value and high in sugar.
8. Designing a line of T-shirts for a manufacturer that employs child labor.
9. Designing a promotion for a diet product that you know doesn’t work.
10. Designing an ad for a political candidate whose policies you believe would be harmful to the general public.
11. Designing a brochure for an SUV that flips over frequently in emergency conditions and is known to have killed 150 people.
12. Designing an ad for a product whose frequent use could result in the user’s death.