Reducing Plastic and Waste Part 2 – Actionable Steps Toward a Better Planet and a Better Life

By |2019-01-10T01:24:15+00:00November 1, 2018|Green Home, Minimalism, Reducing Waste|

This is part 2 of my Reducing Plastic and Waste series (see part one here). Just to quickly recap, one of the best things we can do individually to help our world be a better place is to reexamine our consumerist habits. It may not seem like it matters, but our individual habits are one of the few things we have 100{9994046f29331ee04cc0b5e07eb28364315ea03ccc2f01b5a43e8b85b372d1e9} control over. If we aren't even willing to change our own lives to create and inspire change, how can we expect anyone else (whether it be the government, corporations, etc) to do it? The more we demand [...]

Reducing Plastic and Waste – Small Steps to a Cleaner World Part 1

By |2020-02-29T19:18:23+00:00November 1, 2018|Green Home, Minimalism, Reducing Waste|

While we have known how detrimental excess plastic is for the environment for quite some time now, the average person is only just recently starting to see how serious the problem is. From the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (an area in the ocean spanning about 600,000 square miles that is saturated with small pieces of plastic that pose a great danger to marine life) to plastic mounds found all over the earth (plastic has been found everywhere from Antarctica to Mt. Everest), we have a bit of a problem on our hands. Reducing plastic and waste isn't a simple [...]

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