After recently picking up free mulch, I made a list of just some of the useful items I get for free regularly.
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Plastic Free July: Cut These Top 4 Single-Use Plastics
If you don’t know how to start Plastic Free July, cut the Top 4: the very common, very swappable sources of single-use plastic pollution.
Start Your Plastic Free Journey Here
Updated 06/26/21 Want to break up with plastic but don’t know where to start? Start Here Top 3 Ways to Break Up With Plastic Eat more home-cooked food. Ultra-processed convenience food and to-go food almost always come in plastic wrappers and containers. Food you or someone else cooks at home does not. Refuse single-use plastic. Say […]
Do It for the Cash
Let’s say you don’t care about the environment at all. All you care about is money. Why? Well, perhaps you’re testing the theory that money can’t buy you happiness—and you demand first-hand proof. Maybe you have a psychological disorder—greed may be just that. Or possibly you look forward to living in the most unequal society […]
10 Alternatives to Bottled Water and Soda
If you do nothing else to reduce your waste or if you want to start on the zero-waste, plastic-free path and don’t know where to start, consider cutting store-bought bottled beverages. The gazillion plastic bottles these drinks leave behind create an environmental mess that Big Soda expects us—the consumer—to clean up for them. In addition, because […]
Letter from California (Part II)
Dear Reader, In my last letter, I wrote about the water conservation measures I have taken at home as the mega-drought here in California rages on with no end in sight. Although I am happy to have incorporated these practices into my daily life—I find them easy enough to do—ordinary citizens like myself do not consume the […]
5 Zero-Waste Baby Steps
Someone recently wrote on my Facebook page that going zero-waste requires a home, a garden and an outdoor compost bin. While I do agree all of this certainly helps, I also believe everyone can reduce their waste. Perhaps reading about zero-wasters induces feelings of paralysis for some. “OMG, she raises backyard geese, makes her kids sidewalk chalk […]