A Woman with a Hat

Yesterday, in a small theater/restaurant there was a woman with one of those hats - a kippah or yarmulka - usually only worn by religious jewish men. This website sees women wearing kippot (plural for kippah) as a "push for equality between the sexes in the practice of Judaism".

Ceiling Panels

Every single store, cafe, bar, restaurant and gas station around here has the same kind of acoustic paneling on their ceiling. (Note that I have carefully documented this already before)

Packaging

One of the most ecological features of American groceries is the size of packaging. Everything is super-sized which means that for each pound of packaged food relatively little material is used in packaging (realtively meaning that if the same type of packages were smaller there would be even more wasted material).
That was at least how it used to be but now it seems that the trend is mini-size. Weight gaining (or loosing) concious consumers want their snacks in small packages containing just the suitable amount of calories for a single doze. Hence, for example potato chip companies gain multiplied profits - and create multiplied amounts of packaging material.

4th of July

There are always so many flags out there that it seemed like the 4th of July brought no substantial increase to the combined number of stars or stripes in this city.