I’ve wanted to build a solar food dehydrator but perhaps I don’t need one. Making do with what I have and experimenting has worked so far.
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15 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.
Do Individual Actions Matter?
You’ve no doubt heard the argument: Individual actions don’t matter, only collective action does. Must we choose one or the other?
Lazy, Experimental, Give-It-a-Whirl Gardening
If Covid disrupted the food supply chain, imagine what more extreme weather will do. Now’s a good time to start a garden.
Shop-the-Fridge Soup
Reduced food waste can play a major role in addressing the climate crisis. A pot of soup is the easiest way to ensure we eat the food we buy.
How to Help Fire-Ravaged California (and Oregon and Washington)
Want to help victims of the California wildfires? Here’s a list of organizations to support and actions to take. Plus enter a raffle to win a bread saw for your sourdough bread.
Will the Coronavirus Kill the Zero-Waste Movement?
Should we abandon the low-waste lifestyle during the coronavirus outbreak, avoid reusables and choose single-use throwaway items?
How to Keep Caring About the Planet
Asking the question, “How do I keep caring?” shows not that we don’t care about the planet but that we may not be caring adequately for ourselves.
Online Petitions Can Lead to Change
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.
We All Need Good News and Here It Is
While the bad news on the environment has been very bad, the good news has been very good. If you’ve been feeling hopeless, here is some relief.
Wash Laundry, Not too Much, Hang to Dry
Wash dirty laundry in cold, use as few products as possible and hang to dry. You’ll save money and your clothes will last longer.
How Do I Make My Parents Live More Sustainably?
“I’m a teenager living at home with unsupportive parents. What can I do to make them stop using so much plastic and be more sustainable?”
How to Help Victims of the Australian Bushfires
Victims of the unprecended Austrailan bushfire crisis need our help. This list includes organizations that support evacuees, firefighters or animals.
Global Climate Strike Whataboutism
People have lots of advice—or whataboutisms—for the global climate strikers: “Instead of taking to the streets, the strikers should actually do X, Y or Z.”
Ask Anne Marie: How Can I Support the Climate Strikes?
“I want to go to the climate strikes but I have really bad anxiety. What else could I do?”