Yesterday I read a story in Fast Company about Patagonia, a favorite company of mine. It mentions how they built the walls of their distribution center with compressed straw, which is more eco-friendly than using virgin building materials.
This morning I realized the weather in the Northeast is demonstrating its annual change of summer to autumn in the course of one weekend. So I removed my window air conditioner, an autumn ritual for apartment dwellers in these parts. In the space between the air conditioner and the window sill a bird had built a nest out of straw (landscapers had recently planted new grass around the house and spread straw over the seedlings). There’s a fun parallel; I’m imagining the little birds at Patagonia flitting around with needles in their beaks sewing Baby Aviator Hats.