Purchasing your grocery and household items in bulk has many benefits for the planet and for your wallet. Here are some examples: Reduce Packaging Waste I first got the idea to buy in bulk when I realized how quickly my family was going through bags of rice and popcorn kernels. We eat a lot of both. Rice and popcorn come in relatively small plastic bags which are almost impossible to recycle in most areas. If you read my post on the myth of recycling, you know that the bulk of…
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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…
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What is Composting? Composting is the process of allowing organic matter breakdown into fertilizer for soil. Anything organic can be composted – leaves, branches, table scraps, banana peels, watermelon rinds, etc. Why Compost? Our landfills are overflowing, and food waste is the single most common material found in landfills. When food rots, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas that is 80x more potent than CO2. Municipal solid waste landfills are the third-largest source of human-related methane emissions in the U.S. A recent study published in nature.com found that composting organic…
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I purchased a bidet for my home three years ago and I’m not exaggerating when I say it was life changing. LIFE CHANGING! The first time I used it I honestly thought to myself, “What the heck have I been doing my whole life?” Now I know, I was walking around with a dirty butt for the first 40+ years of my life. No longer. Bidets have been around since the beginning of time, yet in the United States they are not common. In the U.S., we’ve chosen to use…
