South Korean - Journalist | August 15, 1976 -
Some of the most green people in our lives are our parents and grandparents, who always bought locally and carefully. I remember my grandmother would buy a jar of cream and make it last for a long time. To me, that is just as green as something with an expensive, eco-savvy label on it.
Su-chin Pak
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Just as you would if you wanted to eat healthier or take better care of your skin, the most important thing you can do when buying something is to turn over the bottle and get informed about the ingredients. Many items we use daily are full of unpronounceable chemicals.
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Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.
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People will talk about money in the general sense, but not in the specific sense of, like, where'd you fail, how'd you succeed, how'd you do it.
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The Hester Street Fair is kind of like a tiny baby DailyCandy market every week in the Lower East Side.
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My parents are small business owners, and the Korean community, like a lot of immigrant communities, is very much owner-driven.
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Growing up, the only Asian face I saw on air was Connie Chung or extras on M*A*S*H. That was it. You could either be Chinese delivery guy No. 4 or maybe one day read the news.
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I did MTV so long because it's been really hard to find a place that has been able to keep my interests where I can do more than one beat.
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Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.
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Any band will say that they'd be nothing without the fans.
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Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.
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The Hester Street Fair started off as a passion project. We imagined a space where friends and neighbors in the creative community could have a place to find an audience.
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