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December 22, 2007 5:14 AM

Home "Sweet" Home : Bake For a Change challenges readers to build a sustainable gingerbread house.

Winners will receive a t-shirt - no word on whether it's made from organic cotton.

So far, there are no photos added to the Flickr group, but there are plenty of more conventional houses for your viewing pleasure.

posted by grapefruitmoon (10 comments total)

There will be no truly sustainable gingerbread houses until enough gingerbread men and gingerbread women decide to devote themselves to the cause, and start living an eco-friendly gingerlife. No amount of human interference (no matter how well-intentioned) is going to make it happen. Gingerbread people have to do it for themselves.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:42 AM on December 22, 2007 [3 favorites]

I buy ginger credits to ensure my ginger-neutral footprint.
posted by Rock Steady at 5:54 AM on December 22, 2007 [1 favorite]

Run, run, as fast as you can,
you can't ensure ginger-neutral footprints by purchasing ginger credits with me,
I'm the gingerbread man!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:07 AM on December 22, 2007

The time for sustainable practices has come; surely the website could tread a little less gingerly?
posted by artifarce at 6:32 AM on December 22, 2007

Michael Moore has announced plans to produce "Ginger and me".
posted by HuronBob at 6:44 AM on December 22, 2007

Michael Moore has announced plans to produce "Ginger and me".

Well, it's about time he made a movie about a "movie star".
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:52 AM on December 22, 2007

It's not easy being ginger.
posted by miss lynnster at 7:34 AM on December 22, 2007

I just momentarily hallucinated a Futurama episode in which the crew travel to fairy tale world and are told that gingerbread is actually a safe and economical building material, but only after it's coated with an inedible milkproofing (since milk rains from the skies on fairly tale planet), which makes the whole point of having an edible dwelling moot.

Later on Richard Nixon's Head is destroyed when a ravenous kind of flesh-eating beetle infiltrates his glass jar. But that's how all my Futurama hallucinations end.
posted by JHarris at 10:16 AM on December 22, 2007

What a ridiculous idea. Build a sustainable house that will be eaten in a few days anyway? To me, the only important rule for a gingerbread creation is that it all be edible.
posted by misha at 12:21 PM on December 22, 2007

Bah. Too treehuggery for me. I prefer the gingerbread crack house my friend Suz baked this year, complete with gummi snipers on the roof, crashed chocolate cars in the yard and choco-booze bottles. She said: "I don't know what's more disturbing, that there is such a thing as gummi snipers, or that I installed them on the roof."
posted by bitter-girl.com at 8:59 AM on December 24, 2007