Our laundry-to-landscape grey water system captures water from the washing machine, diverts it to plants outside and lowers our water bill.
Climate Crisis
21 Shopping Free Activities to Enjoy on Buy Nothing Day
This Buy Nothing Day—formerly known as Black Friday—protest by not participating in consumerism and enjoy some of these activities instead.
Pastry for Pakistan Pay-What-You-Feel Fundraiser
Raise money for flood victims in Pakistan while learning how to bake a delicious galette in this pay-what-you-feel Zoom workshop.
How to Help Struggling Native Bees Snag a Nesting Site
Our standing dead nectarine tree—a snag—can still help bear fruit. How? It now serves as a nesting site for bees, crucial pollinators.
Raise a Glass of Ginger Beer for Climate Action
Do you want climate action? Do you like ginger beer? Learn to make fabulous ginger beer in this pay-what-you-feel fundraiser.
8-Week Challenge: Plant Natives to Halt the Biodiversity Crisis
Want to do something about the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis? Follow this 8-week challenge to get native plants into your yard.
12 Simple Ways to Celebrate Earth Day Every Day
Take one or more of these simple 12 actions this Earth Day—and every day! As you help heal the planet, you will benefit personally.
Greed Flushes the Earth’s Lungs Down the Toilet
During a climate crisis, industry continues to clear-cut the carbon-sequestering boreal forest in Canada to make toilet paper. What to do.
Plastic Is Fossil Fuel: How to Get Off the Stuff
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the recent IPCC report both show the need to get off fossil fuels. Plastic is fossil fuel in another form.
5 Alternatives to Fast Flowers This Valentine’s Day
Most Valentine’s Day flowers in the US travel thousands of miles in refrigerated holds, burning fossil fuels. Here are some rosy alternatives.
How to Reduce Pollutants in the Kitchen with Induction Cooking
Gas cooking consumes climate-heating gas and fills homes with pollutants similar to what a car’s tailpipe emits. Induction cooking does not.
We Need to Talk About Our Demand Chain Crisis
We keep hearing about the supply chain disruption in the news media but need to address what drives our supply chain: unsustainable demand.
No Time to Waste: An Easy and Even Fun Way to Push Our Reps on Climate
Please join me for an online action party on August 31st. We’ll contact our Members of Congress to urge them to take bold action on climate.
Books and More for Coping With IPCC-Assessment-Induced Ecoanxiety
If you feel overwhelmed or doomed in light of the IPCC climate assessment released this week, these books and media picks can help.
15 Easy Ways to Conserve Water in Your Kitchen and on Your Plate
Directly conserve water flowing out of your kitchen taps and indirectly conserve it on the farm by considering how and where your food grows.