Sustainability
Recycling lives
A time came in my life when I felt a burning desire to start a family. I had grown tired of it all being about me. I felt ready to pass along the little that I knew to someone else. I was ready to see someone grow, change and blossom. I was longing for a house full of chaos, joy, and laughter. I was game for some good-old highschool drama.I wanted to get excited about Santa coming down the chimney once again. I wanted to see my parents melt as they watched their grand-kids learn to ride a bike.
By Silvia FIammenghi3 years ago in Earth
How To Help Save The Planet
Today, at long last, I took personal responsibility for doing my bit towards saving our beautiful blue and green planet. At a time when there are highly justified, continuing global concerns about the health and well being of planet earth, I do believe it is incumbent upon each and everyone of us as individuals to reduce our carbon footprint. Collectively, we can do an awful lot to reduce wasting valuable resources only to create evermore unnecessary, unjustifiable pollution and contamination all around the world, very much to all of our detriment. What did I do? I bought a new bike.
By Adam Evanson3 years ago in Earth
Tree Planters
It is easy to feel hopeless with the climate crisis we are facing in our world today. It may seem like one individual's contribution may not amount to much. However, every choice we make does have an impact, regardless of how small it may be, every little thing helps.
By Andree Major3 years ago in Earth
How Bokashi Composting Can Surprise Anyone with its Effectiveness
Ok, so you have want to call me on a bluff. No bluff. You were were not told the whole truth about plants in primary school and with the knowledge in this article, your plants and gardens will grow like never before.
By Richard Soulliere3 years ago in Earth
Our Exemplary Urban Journey to No-Smell Compost
Anyone with any amount of green on their thumb appreciates good compost and soil. Rich soil smells good. Well, I have good news for you - your compost can have the same good smell right from the beginning, too. Can you say ‘year-round gardening’?
By Richard Soulliere3 years ago in Earth
Being The Change
“Nothing focuses the mind like a crisis” - Liam Neeson (Brave Blue World) Quarantine life has given me ample time to reassess the world and our impact on it. After a year of forgoing the usual social obligations, I find myself happier than ever. It amazes me how much joy can be gained by “going without”.
By The Creative Chimera 3 years ago in Earth
An Average Joe's Cup of Joe
The Mason jar: perhaps most known for household storage, or, more notoriously, as the mark of a surface-level hipster planning a struggling podcast in a gentrified café, the Mason jar needs no introduction. At the risk of appearing similar to the aforementioned hipster, I have found the Mason jar to be useful for me in my efforts to reduce my carbon footprint. Instead of using the plastic cups and straws characteristic of Starbucks Coffee (the favored caffeine refueling spot for many of my fellow teenage girls), I have found that using a Mason jar for my morning iced coffee to be much less guilt-inducing. Of course, there is the remaining oh-no-am-I-developing-a-caffeine-addiction-at-the-fresh-age-of-18 guilt, but it is a weight to lift off of my environmental conscience.
By Liz Newsom3 years ago in Earth
Style Doesn't Have to Hurt
All of a sudden "sustainable fashion" has just become a thing - activewear made of recycled plastic, ethically sourced cashmere, dye-free cotton, and eco-friendly denim...The idea is great, but the price tags are shocking. Looking at a $85 basic white tee the other day, I just felt like the only way I could rationalize buying it was to think of it as some kind of donation. But then I'd probably just make a donation to a trusted charity.
By Shuuka Lee3 years ago in Earth