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 ...
No Yard? No Problem—Here’s How to Compost No Matter Where You Live
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 ...
10 Common Recycling Myths That Need to be Talked About
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 ...
6 Tips for Developing (and Maintaining) Eco-Friendly Habits
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 ...
Small Sustainable Steps Matter: Here’s Why You Should be an Imperfect Environmentalist
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 ...
9 Sustainable Living Tips That’ll Make Your Life Easier
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 ...
Here is the Most Effective Way to Talk About Climate Change According to Experts
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 ...
A Guide to Greenwashing: What it is and How You Can Spot it
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 ...
Curious About Plant-Based Eating? Here are Some Tips to Get You Started
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 ...
All The Tips You Need to Have a More Sustainable Thanksgiving
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 ...