Sustainable Living
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Introducing Terrera and their Sustainable Bamboo Sheet Sets
|Ad| This post contains sponsored content. As always, all thoughts are our own. Please read more on our Privacy Policy and Disclaimers Page. We are heading into (or really, we’re in the midst of!) a season focused on shopping. When it comes to sustainable living, the need to shop and give gifts can be a challenging one because there’s a mindful balance needing to be struck with each dollar spent. The reality is that each purchase we make will have an impact on our planet. As we shop for items and make our purchases, we can minimize that impact by making conscious choices. These choices include the businesses we buy from and the…
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Make A Difference By Giving These 10 Sustainable Gift Options
|PR| This post contains gifted products. As always, all thoughts are our own. Please read more on our Privacy Policy and Disclaimers Page. The holiday season is here! And with that comes the need to think about gift giving. We love a good experience or homemade item as a gift, but sometimes it’s nice to give a quality physical gift to someone as well. This guide is all about helping you find items you can feel good about gifting–items that are thoughtful, practical, have good style and are, of course, good for our planet. Sustainable Gift Guide 2023 Choosing a sustainable gift can be both easy and complicated. There is a lot…
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6 Fantastic Organizations Working To Reduce Food Waste and Scarcity
This month for our Climate Change Collective conversation, we are looking at the concept of food scarcity and how climate change is impacting this. Caroline from Enviroline Blog is leading our conversation this month with her post “The impact climate change has on food security and how to help.” The Reality of Food Scarcity Caroline does a great job in her post of drawing attention to all of the factors that are going to affect food scarcity, such as changing temperatures and extreme weather events. We’ve experienced these two things recently in British Columbia with heat domes and atmospheric rivers and flooding causing extremely challenging growing conditions for farmers. As…
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6 Options for Halloween Candy with Recyclable Packaging
Holidays tend to come with a lot of waste and Halloween is no exception. It’s why Krista and I have both written posts about how to reduce waste on Halloween (Read the post by Krista here and by me here). Halloween candy is, of course, a BIG contributor to Halloween waste, so I wanted to give some options for Halloween candy with recyclable packaging. There aren’t a lot out there anymore, but below are a few for you to consider. Cardboard vs. Plastic Packaging of any kind inevitably creates some kind of waste and some kind of impact on the planet. Simply put, producing packaging creates a carbon footprint, but…
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4 ways to use your home to combat climate change
The Climate Change Collective Welcome to the Climate Change Collective series, through which a group of environmentally minded bloggers are trying to keep climate change at the top of people’s minds! In this series, one blogger writes a topical post and the Climate Change Collective participants write a response to their post, sharing thoughts or more information on the topic. This month, Michelle from Boomer Eco Crusader shares about the impact that microforests can have on the environment in the latest Climate Change Collective post here. As I read through Michelle’s post about the impact that microforests can have on an area, I began to think about how we all have…
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Introducing Clementine Greetings and their Creative Message Peels
|Ad| This post contains sponsored content. As always, all thoughts are our own. Please read more on our Privacy Policy and Disclaimers Page. We love getting creative with using and reusing items because single use items are a big contributor to waste creation and climate change. This is one reason I was so excited to learn about a way to reuse greeting cards and extend their life before placing them in the recycle bin. Clementine Greetings has created a unique way of reusing greeting cards with their Message Peels! Created with the intention of reducing waste, these greeting cards are a more sustainable way to spread some cheer. The Problem of…