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9 Apps That Have Made My Sustainable Living Journey *So* Much Easier

April 22, 2022

Forming sustainable habits takes time, patience, and sometimes a little help from your phone. I'll fully admit, I have a love / hate relationship with my little pocket computer. Yes, it can draw me into hours of doom scrolling, but it also has plenty of ...

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No Yard? No Problem—Here’s How to Compost No Matter Where You Live

April 1, 2022

Did you know that organic matter (i.e., food) doesn’t break down properly in landfills? It's true. When buried under layers and layers of trash, organic matter lacks access to light and oxygen—two things it needs in order to decompose correctly. Without ...

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10 Common Recycling Myths That Need to be Talked About

March 3, 2022

Raise your hand if you were today years old when you realized how complicated recycling is. When I was growing up we had two bins in our garage—one for paper and one for plastic. In them I'd toss newspapers, boxes, and all my single-use plastics, blissfu ...

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6 Tips for Developing (and Maintaining) Eco-Friendly Habits

February 16, 2022

How many times have you tried to form (or break) a habit and failed? I'll wait while you count. If you're like me, you've determined that number is much larger than what you can add up on your fingers and toes. Because forming new habits, even eco-fr ...

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Small Sustainable Steps Matter: Here’s Why You Should be an Imperfect Environmentalist

January 4, 2022

If you’ve never heard the term “imperfect environmentalist” it’s time to add it to your mental dictionary (or your actual dictionary if anyone still has one of those). In my opinion the phrase is a tad redundant. Imperfection should be considered an i ...

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9 Sustainable Living Tips That’ll Make Your Life Easier

December 23, 2021

When I ask people what their biggest struggle is with sustainable living, the response I most commonly hear is "convenience." Convenience is king, and many eco-friendly living tips can have the tendency to require a bit more effort. It's not always condu ...

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Here is the Most Effective Way to Talk About Climate Change According to Experts

December 15, 2021

About 70% of Americans say that they “rarely” or “never” discuss climate change with family and friends. That's 230.7 million people neglecting to talk about a global crisis. Now, maybe it's because those people don't know how to talk about climate c ...

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A Guide to Greenwashing: What it is and How You Can Spot it

November 8, 2021

According to the Webster Dictionary, Greenwashing is "expressions of environmentalist concerns especially as a cover for products, policies, or activities." In other words, it's a deceptive marketing practice that companies use to make you think you're b ...

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Curious About Plant-Based Eating? Here are Some Tips to Get You Started

November 2, 2021

The word "vegan" can be intimidating. For some it may trigger images of of bland tofu, meatless burgers, and cheese that doesn't taste like cheese. If this is you, I encourage you to challenge these beliefs. Not because I'm about to tell you that you nee ...

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All The Tips You Need to Have a More Sustainable Thanksgiving

October 28, 2021

Thanksgiving—it's a holiday I (and probably many of you) associate more with food comas than sustainability. After all, each kilo of turkey consumed contributes 10.9 kilos of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. So the consumption of 45 million ...

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Hot girls consciously declutter their closets. 💁‍♀️

And by that I mean, we don’t drop a giant bag at Goodwill because a lot of those items go unsold, end up landfilled, or shipped to developing countries where they often become more of a burden than a “gift” to locals (more on that below).

➡️ So here are some more sustainable options:

1. Give away clothes in good condition to friends or on your local Buy Nothing Group

2. Sell gently used clothes on apps like @Poshmark or @Depop (p.s I just posted some new stuff on my Poshmark if ya wanna check it out, link in b!0)

3. Upcycle or downcycle unusable clothes for your own use

If you can’t do any of the above the landfill may be your best option (which I know is a hot take 😅)

I don’t love clothing recycling programs because many in store drop offs (like those at certain fast fashion retailers) only recycle a *very* small amount of the clothes put in their bins.

The rest is sent overseas to be resold at markets, like Kantamanto Market in Ghana where ~40% of clothes received are of such poor quality they’re deemed worthless and dumped in the landfill anyways.

(The article “Dead White Man’s Clothes” by Linton Besser goes very in depth into this if you’d like to learn more).

So, programs like For Day’s takeback bag program (which I get a lot of Q’s about) may be good to use every once in a while if you have some truly unwearable clothes to get rid of since some of it is put to good use.

But the priority should always be taking care of and using what you have. 💚

#declutteringtips #sustainablefashion #declutter #closetcleanout
Emerging from my photo hibernation. ⛅️ Fit de Emerging from my photo hibernation. ⛅️

Fit details ✨
-Top: originally Aritzia, thrifted via @Depop
-Jeans: abercrombie
-Earrings: idk they’ve been sitting in my jewelry box so long

#outfitoftheday #thriftedfashion #secondhandstyle
Forever convinced it “will only take me an hour” to clean and declutter my whole home. 🙃

#springcleaning #cleaningday #decluttering #cleaningvideos #relatable #funnyvideos
A lil vlog of a week in my low buy year. 💛 The A lil vlog of a week in my low buy year. 💛

The non-essential spend this week was a tad higher than usual with date night and girls night falling on the same weekend, but I’m glad that every non-essential I spent money on was either:

1. Secondhand
2. An experience
3. Supporting a local small biz

Lmk if you want see more of these low-buy mini vlogs ☺️

#lowbuy #minivlog #consciousconsumption #secondhandfashion
A lil sustainable self care musical 🥰 Inspired A lil sustainable self care musical 🥰

Inspired by the queen of 30 second musicals, @annaxsitar 

Featuring: My @versed skincare products, sparkly water from @drinkspindrift, and my secondhand outfit, puzzle, and cups. ☺️

#sundayreset #selfcareroutine #selfcare #sustainableselfcare #sundayresets #sustainableskincare #satisfyingvideos #selfcaresunday #getunreadywithme
My bathroom cleaning ✨essentials✨: 1️⃣ B My bathroom cleaning ✨essentials✨:

1️⃣ Bamboo scrubber from @zefirowaste (link in b!0)

2️⃣ DIY cleaning paste (1/3 cup of baking soda + 2 tbsp hydrogen peroxide + a couple pumps of dish soap + a pinch of salt (optional) for extra scrubbing power)

3️⃣ Laundry sheets from @truearthmovement to wash my shower liner

4️⃣ 1/4 cup of vinegar to add to the fabric softener dispenser when washing aforementioned shower liner

Drop your favorite bathroom cleaning tip in the comments. 👇

#cleaning #cleaningtips #sustainableliving #sustainablecleaning
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