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How Your Clothing Helps the Planet: 5 Easy Changes
Krista and I have been spending time looking at different areas of our lives where we can take personal action and help the planet. The recent IPCC Report on climate change was fairly overwhelming, so we wanted to check in and dive a little deeper on a few areas. We’ve looked at a few areas of our lives so far, such as our food choices, energy choices, and even our internet use choices. This week I’m looking at how our clothing helps (or harms) the planet and some choices we can make. The Problem with Fashion The fast fashion industry has sold us on the idea that we constantly need new items in our…
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How Your Internet Use Choices Help the Planet: 5 Simple Actions
Introduction After being overwhelmed by the IPCC Report on climate change, Alison and I wanted to spend some time focusing on personal actions that could help the planet. We’ve looked at a few areas of our lives so far, such as gardening, our food choices, our energy choices and how we can use our time to help the planet. This week I’m looking at how our internet use choices help the planet. How Data Gets Around the World Internet use choices such as streaming, searching, emailing – they all seem like they shouldn’t have much of an impact beyond maybe the electricity to run our computer. Somehow I thought that the data I download, upload,…
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How Your Food Choices Help the Planet: 3 Simple Actions
After being overwhelmed by the IPCC Report on climate change, Krista and I wanted to spend some time focusing on personal actions that could help the planet. Krista started off last week by continuing her series on How Your Garden Helps the Planet. This week, I’m taking a look at how our food choices help the planet. There will be simple actions we can make in all areas of our lives to lessen our impact on the planet and our food choices are no exception. Small, collective actions can add up not just to help prevent climate change, but also to influence policy makers and big businesses to create change.…
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10 Unique Recycling Programs you Need to Know About
In this post, I’m sharing some unique recycling and upcycling programs that you may not know about. While we may be mindful of the amount and types of things we buy, eventually we will likely need to dispose of worn out or unwanted belongings. I’ve talked before about 10 ways to dispose your unwanted items, but some items need even more creativity. How do you recycle your contact lenses? What’s the right way to dispose of your yoga mat? Read on! I’ve got answers for you! 10 Unique Recycling Programs These fantastic initiatives include recycling programs for: Computers and hardware Contact lenses Sewing supplies and fabric Yoga mats Chop sticks…
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26 Great Ways to Reuse Your Glass Jars
I love saving glass jars from the recycle bin! They are so versatile for reusing, that I feel I can never have too many–though my cupboards tell me otherwise some days. Mason jars are probably the most popular jars for their esthetic, but I find it useful to keep all types and sizes of jars–everything from pasta jars to spice jars and everything in between. Inspiration for Reusing Your Glass Jars But what to do with them all? Jars can be used for so many things. I’ve got a list of 26 ways to use your glass jars to get you started. 1. Gift Wrapping I love finding creative ways…
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Waste Audit: What, Why, and How to Complete One
This January I was introduced to the “Waste Audit” concept by my local zero waste group on Facebook. It was an idea that felt a bit daunting, but also was an exciting challenge. What is a Waste Audit? In basic terms, the waste audit is looking at your garbage and identifying areas where you can do better and create less waste. How to do a Waste Audit To complete a waste audit for your household garbage, here are some steps to take: Choose a start and end date, such as January 1st to 31st. Choose some accountability partners–challenges are always more fun with friends! Collect all of your garbage for…
