Hopefully you’ve already read my first post on this topic – Reduce Reuse Rewire. If not, click on the hyperlink and bring yourself up to speed. If you’ve read the post, you know why we should place the most emphasis on Reduce, and Reuse, and why we need to stop focusing on Recycle. Hint – recycling is sadly a huge sham. The vast majority of plastic does not get recycled. Rather it ends up in landfills, getting incinerated, or it gets dumped into rivers, streams and the ocean. Our planet…
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On August 16, 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the strongest U.S. climate action plan in history. The Inflation Reduction Act provides $369 billion to promote clean energy and climate justice. It was designed to create hundreds of thousands of jobs, spur clean energy innovation, and strengthen manufacturing in the U.S. This law moves us closer to President Biden’s pledge to cut climate pollution 50 to 52 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. Hooray! What Does This Mean for You? The most direct and immediate consumer-focused advantages come in…
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We’re all familiar with Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. So familiar perhaps, that it has lost all of its meaning. We see the symbol, we figure we know what it means, we move on. It’s really only the third R (recycle) that gets all of the attention, but recycling should be our last resort. Tons of research has proven that, for the most part, recycling doesn’t even work. Yup, while many of us are doing our part to save the planet and dutifully washing out all of our containers and putting them…
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I lost my mother and lifelong best friend to a rare form of bone cancer in February 2018. She was sick for about 6 months before she passed away. The months leading up to her death were hands-down the worst of my life, but they were also a gift. We knew she was going to die, so we had time to pack in as much living as we could. We also had time to plan for her death. My Mom was a huge greenie like me. She was a true…
