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But When You Do Shop, Shop Small

Posted on September 5, 2018by The Zero-Waste Chef

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Shop small could mean shop less. And I do suggest we all do that. But in this post, by shop small, I mean shop at small independent businesses—the local bookstore, bike shop and bakery. Why? 1. Less packaging waste Which came first, our addiction to convenience or the convenience of online shopping? Either way, this […]

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Potatoes and cauliflower for dal and chopped cauli

Potatoes and cauliflower for dal and chopped cauliflower leaves for something later this week (fried rice? soup? stir fry?). I also roast cauliflower leaves whole, tossed in olive oil and a bit of salt. You can do the same with potato peels (or fry them). I stick with organic produce when I eat peels (less pesticide residue). These potatoes weren’t organic so I composted the peels.
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Are you taking part in @PlasticFreeJuly? When we cut our plastic, we started to pay attention to all our waste, including food waste. Why reduce food waste?
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😨 Up to 40 percent of the food we produce in the US goes uneaten. (@nrdc_org)
😳 Worldwide, a third of the food we produce goes to waste. (@fao)
😱 Americans waste, on average, one pound of food per day per person. (@guardian)
😰 If food waste were a country, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, just behind the US and China. (@projectdrawdown)
😖 When food decomposes in landfill, it releases methane gas, a greenhouse gas that warms the planet at a rate 86 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. (Scientific American)
😵 Worldwide, food waste contributes 8 percent of all anthropogenic (manmade) greenhouse gas emissions. (Project Drawdown)
😬 Wasted food squanders 21 percent of all the water used in US agriculture. (National Resources Defense Council)
🤭 By weight, food is the largest contributor to US landfills. (National Resources Defense Council)
☹️ 1 in 8 people living in the US is food insecure. (National Resources Defense Council)
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The good news 😀 is we can eat the food. Shop the refrigerator and pantry first before heading to the store (fewer trips during Covid). Make a simple meal plan. Cook versatile dishes like soup. You can put just about anything into it (within reason...). If you can’t eat all the food on hand, freeze it (you can freeze all kinds of food). Give food away through apps like @olio_ex and @olio_bay_area. And if food waste happens (you don’t get to those herbs in the back of the refrigerator), compost it. If you don’t have space for a compost bin and your city doesn’t pick up food scraps, look for a community garden in your city that will take it.

Today is the start of @plasticfreejuly. With a rac

“A year from now what will you wish you had done

“A year from now what will you wish you had done today?” — Liam Linisong
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I made it back to California and am self-isolating in a home sprinkled with inspirational quotes like this one. It makes me wonder what our children—only a few years from now—will wish we had done today for climate justice.
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Just some of what we can do now:
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1. Donate money and/or time to organizations such as @350org @extinctionrebellion and @nrdc_org
2. Divest from fossil fuels
3. Protest
4. Consume less
5. Sign petitions
6. Contact elected officials to demand a Green New Deal
7. Vote

My thyme in Canada comes to an end on Monday when

My thyme in Canada comes to an end on Monday when I return to California.
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In my 3 1/2 months up here (I had planned for 10 days), the tiny slice of kombucha SCOBY that I brought with me has grown. Lots. (And yes, I travel with my kombucha SCOBY and sourdough starter.)
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I’ve given a few SCOBYs away here and still have a few left. If you live in or near Guelph, Ontario, and would like one, please DM me and please also leave a comment below that you’ve DM’d me so I can go search for it. On the weekend, we can meet—at a distance and I’ll wear my mask!—outside of Bulk Barn or in the cemetery near me. That’s not a phrase you’ll hear every day: “Meet me in the cemetery for your SCOBY.”
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Swipe to see the updated SCOBY map of all the places in which Etheldreda lives. I’ve tracked her for over five years now and have over 60 pins. When I teach classes or people visit the Bay Area from out of town ( or country), I ply them with SCOBYs to take home so I can add more pins to the map. Etheldreda is better traveled than I am and that is just fine with me. But I’d love to add more to the map before I leave!
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UPDATE: The SCOBYs are all spoken for. Thank you to everyone who contacted me 😊

If you have any book recommendations on environmen

If you have any book recommendations on environmental racism, please leave them in the comments. I just finished this one: A Terrible Thing to Waste, Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind, by Harriet A. Washington.
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Washington’s book outlines how environmental racism devastates BIPOC communities in America, from the epidemic of lead dust plaguing inner-city housing in Baltimore, to lead pipes poisoning the water in Flint (yes, that’s still happening), to Monsanto’s dumping of tens of thousands of pounds of now-banned PCBs in the heart of Anniston, Alabama’s Black residential community, between 1935 to 1971. These are just three of the dozens of examples of environmental hazards described in the book. The last section provides protective steps for families to take that live in affected communities and information on how concerned citizens can get involved to secure clean air, land and housing for all.
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If you’re buying books from the many reading lists circulating right now, please consider buying from Black-owned independent bookstores. Swipe to see lists of some of these indies, compiled by @thisbrownegirlreads (image 3) and @worn__ware (images 4 to 6).
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If we don’t want to live in a corporatocracy, then we need to step up and ensure small, local businesses survive by supporting them with our cold, hard cash.
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When we buy from a local small businesses, we support not only the business itself, but our community and neighborhood. According to IndieBound, a trade association for independent bookstores, “Spend $100 at a local-owned business and $52 of that stays in your community. Spend $50 at a national chain and keep $6.50 in the local community. Spend $50 online with a remote vendor with no sales tax collected and keep not one penny in your local community.”
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#blackoutbestsellerlist #blackpublishingpower

One of my daughter’s basil plants. I’ve been m

One of my daughter’s basil plants. I’ve been making a ton of sourdough pizza for an upcoming blog post (I’ve never eaten so much pizza...) and we’ll put some pesto on an upcoming batch.
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Growing a few herbs in a sunny window, on a balcony or outside directly in the soil not only gives you a sense of satisfaction (and delicious flavor!), it also makes you less dependent on the food system. As we build this new, just and resilient world, reclaiming the skills of our grandparents and great-grandparents will help us reduce our dependence on and support of corporations that harm people and planet for profit.
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MK bought this plant but you can propagate basil from cuttings also. Buy some healthy fresh basil, trim the ends, and place in a jar of water until roots sprout. It will take a couple of weeks. Then plant the basil in a pot or outdoors in a patch of soil.

“The world is changed by your example, not your

“The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.” — Paul Coelho
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#change #changestartswithin #changestartswithme #changestartswithyou #changetheworld #actionsspeaklouderthanhashtags #takeaction #intentionalliving #intentionallife #paulocoelho

It’s World Oceans Day, designated by the UN as a

#blackouttuesday . Link in bio for info on how to

#blackouttuesday
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Link in bio for info on how to help.
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Wednesday Update: Here are some of the organizations from the previous link that are fighting in the front lines for black liberation. Please donate if you can:
@blackvisionscollective
@reclaimtheblock
@mnfreedomfund
@unicorn.riot
@campaignzero

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