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Online Petitions Can Lead to Change

Posted on February 14, 2020February 14, 2020by The Zero-Waste Chef

Filling in the few fields of an online petition seems like literally the least we can do. But combined with other actions, online petitions can work.

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Ask Anne Marie: How Can I Support the Climate Strikes?

Posted on September 22, 2019October 20, 2020by The Zero-Waste Chef

“I want to go to the climate strikes but I have really bad anxiety. What else could I do?”

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Cope with Ecoanxiety Using These 12 Strategies

Posted on June 20, 2019January 7, 2020by The Zero-Waste Chef

The American Psychological Association defines ecoanxiety as “A chronic fear of environmental doom.” If you have ecoanxiety, try these coping strategies.

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These are some of the books I’ve read during qua

These are some of the books I’ve read during quarantine.
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If you buy your books, please support small independent bookstores. Like millions of small businesses, the pandemic has hit them hard. According to the American Booksellers Association, a little more than one indie bookstore has closed every week in the US since the beginning of the pandemic. And while sales have fallen, expenses have risen for items such as disinfecting supplies, PPE and the extra labor required to fulfill online orders that would have been sold in the store pre-pandemic.
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The holidays will be a make-or-break season for many indie booksellers. So if someone on your list is a reader, please buy them books from an independent bookstore.
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What is your favorite indie bookstore and where is it located?

The Canadian coffee and donut chain @timhortons is

The Canadian coffee and donut chain @timhortons is partnering with Loop to test reusable coffee cups and reusable food containers in select Toronto and Montreal stores next year. Customers will pay a deposit, which they will receive back when drop off their used mugs and containers later.
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For my Canadian followers, you don’t need an explanation of what a big deal this is.
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For others who may not know, millions of Canadians are completely obsessed with Tim Hortons. This obsession might be second only to the obsession with hockey. When I returned to the Bay Area from Toronto at the end of June, EVERYTHING was shut down at the airport except of course, Tim Hortons. It’s likely considered essential.
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Swipe to see the picture I took inside the Tim Horton’s inside the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto (Le Temple en français) a couple of years ago. Tim Horton played for the Toronto Maple Leafs for almost two decades (and some other teams...). While playing for the Leafs, he opened his first donut shop in Hamilton, Ontario. (Notice the light forming a halo around the jersey.)
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In the media photo announcing the project, the reusables look like plastic. I won’t drink a hot drink out of a plastic cup. But this is a test project. Let’s hope Tim Hortons and Loop opt for non-plastic materials.
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While you personally may never order to-go coffee at a Tim Hortons, millions of Canadians do. This project could normalize what used to be normal—reusables.
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photo: CNW Group/Tim Hortons

According to the @nytimes, over the past four year

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is cau

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.”
― Alanis Obomsawin

After roasting 20 pounds of tomatoes in the oven,

I hit the Sunnyvale farmers’ market on Saturday

I hit the Sunnyvale farmers’ market on Saturday to buy my two 20-pound cases of tomatoes from @tomaterofarm. @siliconvalleysunrise was also there to encourage residents to vote for a better future.
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I roasted 20 pounds of the tomatoes and fermented another 10 pounds. I made a small amount of broth out of the cores I’d saved from those 30 pounds. I used that for a batch of incredible white bean and tomato soup last night. At the very end, I threw in cubes of stale garlicky sourdough focaccia to sop up the juicy tomato broth (and avoid wasting the focaccia). The soup tasted incredible! I’m going to need more tomatoes this weekend... Below is the recipe (roughly).
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🍅 Sauté a large chopped onion and a couple of cloves of minced garlic in a few tablespoons of olive oil over medium heat until softened.
🍅 Stir in a teaspoon or so of dry or fresh herbs. I used dried thyme. (I cook with lots of thyme and rosemary.)
🍅 Stir in 2 pounds of fresh tomatoes, chopped. Break them up with the back of a wooden spoon. Cook for about 5 minutes.
🍅 Add 1 1/2 cup dried white beans that you’ve soaked overnight, drained and rinsed.
🍅 Cover everything by a few inches with water or broth or a combination. Add a teaspoon of salt.
🍅 Simmer beans vigorously for an hour, stirring occasionally, until tender.
🍅 Stir in a tablespoon of vinegar (I used kombucha I’ve fermented to the point of vinegar).
🍅 Add cubes of stale bread if you have any.
🍅 Add more salt to taste if necessary.
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If you decide to make a large batch so you can freeze some now and enjoy it later, remove what you’ll stash away before adding the bread to the simmering pot.
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I hope everyone’s week is off to a good start!

During Covid, I haven't been going to the farmers'

If you accidentally put all of your active sourdou

If you accidentally put all of your active sourdough starter into a recipe but have some discard in the refrigerator, you can revive that and not have to start your starter all over.
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My daughter Charlotte left behind this jar of discard (left) when she moved to Montreal last month for school 😭 This discard has been sitting in the refrigerator without any new food for at least a couple of months and tastes incredibly sour—too sour to bake with. So I am perking it up. (It had a layer of grey liquid on top when I started this process but I poured that off. You can stir this hooch in if you prefer.)
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I took out a spoonful of the old discard and fed that 50 grams each flour and water. I did these feedings three times, about 8 hours apart, before the starter began to behave normally again (right jar). I’ve added the discard from these feedings back to the discard jar. Now that discard tastes less sour and I’ll make some crackers with it. I also have new active starter for baking something else, probably more focaccia.
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I keep my starter small to prevent discard from taking over my kitchen. But I do get nervous when I get low on it. If anything happens to my active starter Eleanor, I can clone her with the sourdough discard insurance policy stashed away in the refrigerator. She is 6 1/2 years old now. That’s still young in starter years (which are much shorter than dog years) but I’ve grown very attached to her and she is never allowed to move out. 😭😭😭

"It's the marketer's job to make you unhappy." . I

"It's the marketer's job to make you unhappy."
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I read this years ago and I'm not sure who said it (if you do know, please tell me). I've repeated this line so many times that it now induces instant eye rolls from my children (but I think it did rub off on them both). How can you sell happy, satisfied people more stuff? You tell them they are missing out. You show them images of unattainable lifestyles. You make them feel insecure. Then you sell them the supposed solutions for their insecurities. Something to think about this #primeday.

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