52 zero waste resolutions - one for every week of the year! In no particular order, feel free to tackle these in any way that makes sense for you.
Living sustainably can look a million different ways but it doens't have to be expensive. Here's how to practice sustainability on a budget!
Here are my top 20+ suggestions to help writers create a zero waste home office as part of a mindful and sustainable lifestyle.
My name is Lauren Singer and I live a Zero Waste lifestyle in New York City. So how did I get here? I was an Environmental Studies major in College and have always been interested in the environment, but I made the conscious decision to live Zero Waste in 2012 when a fellow Environmental Studies classmate would bring lunch to class every week in…View Post
In search of how to go zero waste? Here are 10 super simple ways to start your zero waste journey today! Welcome to the club!
Biodegradable and highly durable multi-purpose scourers, which have been designed to bring sustainable style to your kitchen, with the functionality to deliver a superior clean. The bristles are made from sustainably farmed coconut husks. The brush cuts through tough grease and is safe on non-stick fry pans and is non-
A large misconception by many people is that zero waste living is expensive. But, living a zero-waste lifestyle is not nearly as expensive as you might believe it to be. In fact, if you do it properly and with moderation, it can actually save you money over time.
These zero waste apps have been game changers for my zero waste lifestyle goals! From zero waste food waste apps to
Its easy to get over excited when starting a new lifestyle. But that can be really off putting. Heres how to talk to your friends about sustainability.
52 zero waste resolutions - one for every week of the year! In no particular order, feel free to tackle these in any way that makes sense for you.
It can be difficult to live with people who are not as inspired as you are to live in a more eco friendly way. Here are some ways to be sustainable in everyday life with your family. With these tips, you can inspire others to live a more sustainable lifestyle.
Author Megean Weldon, aka The Zero Waste Nerd, gently guides you on an attainable, inspirational, mindful, and completely realistic journey to a sustainable living lifestyle. Find tips, strategies, recipes, and DIY projects for reducing waste in this approachable, beautifully designed and illustrated guide. What is zero waste living? Although the practice has been around for generations out of necessity, it is making a comeback as concerns grow about the fate of our environment. To put it simply: it is attempting to send no waste to landfills. Although you may have read or heard about “zero waste,” “sustainable,” or “green” living, the concept can sometimes seem too complicated, the author’s tone a bit self-righteous, or riddled with advice geared for people with 5 acres of land in the country with dreams of raising livestock and homesteading. This is not that book. Can a “regular” person do this? Absolutely! Zero waste isn’t necessarily about zero, but more about changing or altering the way we see the world around us, how we consume, and how we think about waste. It’s about making better choices when we can, and working to reduce our overall impact by reducing the amount of packaging and single-use plastics we bring into our life. Focusing on the positive, An Almost Zero Waste Life presents simple ways to reduce waste in every aspect of your life: Cleaning: Recipes for natural cleaners and how to ditch paper towels for good.Meal plans: Weekly menus and recipes for zero waste meals that use bulk pantry staples.Shopping: How to shop zero waste at big chain stores and ways to reduce food packaging.Bathroom: Sustainable beauty routine.Recycling: Ingenious ways to repurpose old clothing and how to recycle small metals, like razor blades.Compost: The basics of composting.And much more! An Almost Zero Waste Life will change the way you see the world around you, how you consume, and how you think about waste for a healthier planet and happier you.
Written by Holly Rose of Leotie Lovely | Photography by Shane Woodward Over the first two weeks of October, a group of Ethical Writers Coalition members took a zero waste challenge. Read about the beginning of the challenge here. Over this two-week challenge, I finally figured out the balance b
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How to make a zero-waste home, garden, and lifestyle. Practical tips for reducing waste in your permaculture design.
ONE FAMILY'S REVOLT AGAINST EVERYDAY POLLUTION When a beanbag sent thousands of polystyrene balls flying through her garden, Kate Hughes decided to make a break with the throwaway society. She and her husband transformed the lives of their ordinary family of four. They ditched plastic, shunned supermarkets, cooked all meals from scratch, bought only second-hand clothes, and made their own cleaning agents. Then they went deeper - greening every aspect of their home life, from their gas and electricity to their car, from their money to their IT. The Hugheses have achieved the 'zero waste' goal of sending nothing to landfill. Now they are going even further... Told with refreshing humility and humour, this eye-opening story shows that a well-lived life doesn't have to come wrapped in plastic. Packed with handy tips, it reveals much about what makes a fulfilling modern family - and how readers can empower themselves to preserve the climate, forests and seas. And, heart-warmingly, how that can lead to a more relaxing life. Extract Cooking our own meals Wrestling out of the firm grip of the supermarkets has had other, unexpected benefits, too. It's undoubtedly cheaper to cook from scratch, especially if you can batch cook and fill every available space in your oven to reduce energy costs. The need to become the more organised, list-writing type of shoppers has also helped dramatically cut our food waste. We're lucky that we can and do buy our raw ingredients from small, independent retailers that source from nearby suppliers and growers and pass on our questions about sustainability, sometimes even with enthusiasm. But what we hadn't anticipated were the indirect effects of a brand vacuum. If you ever pop round to ours and start randomly opening our kitchen cupboards, fridge or freezer they would probably remind you of a blind taste test or an episode of the BBC's Eat Well for Less. There's definitely food in there, but it's all in label-less jars, paper bags or sometimes even sacks for bulk items like bread flour and oats. At first, visitors find the lack of familiar packaging quite unsettling. We get a lot of questions that start: 'Is this proper/real/like...?' as guests hold jars up to the light with badly disguised scepticism. On the plus side, our children now have zero pester power. We don't need to navigate the snack shuffle at the supermarket checkout because they have no hope of deploying the 'It's not the one I like' argument at mealtimes. Nor, for that matter, have the adults. ... But we were starting to realise that making the journey was leading to more questions than answers, more grey areas, misinformation and conflicts of interest than we ever imagined - and that was just about food. We hadn't even got started on anything else that came into our home yet. Take a single, uncontroversial ingredient, let's say peppers. Should we buy them grown in a UK hothouse or ones trucked in from Spain? What if the Spanish ones are organic? Or the only UK option is wrapped in plastic? Which is better for the environment? Or at least less harmful? If we ever want to eat peppers again without negatively impacting the planet in some way are we going to have to grow our own? Because self-sufficiency wasn't really part of the plan.... All we could do was dive in and hope we didn't drown in the detail as we swam around looking for food that worked for us and the planet. We started with the problem of transport because food mileage was a well established measure that meant we could actually make some decisions based on numbers for once. Or, at least, we thought we could. Three quarters of all the fruit and veg now eaten in the UK is imported. Almost all the fruit we eat has been grown overseas, and soft fruit in particular is flown in. It turns out that the UK only produces half of all the food that is consumed on these shores - which is somewhat patriotically disconcerting as well as practically unsustainable. Global sourcing is not a new approach to feeding a nation. One of our family stories is the recollection of the first banana my great uncle ever tasted after the Second World War, shipped from the other side of the world and unloaded onto the Liverpool docks. We were very aware that bananas came from overseas. But the fact that such a vast proportion of the apples eaten in Britain are imported from South Africa, or at best France, when the fruit grows very well in the miles of orchards you can see from the motorway near our house seemed to be absurd. The obvious solution appeared to be only to buy food produced not just in the UK but as close to our immediate vicinity as possible. That immediately threw up two questions. The first we were becoming increasingly familiar with. Were we really prepared to give up things we took great pleasure in for the sake of an unquantifiable, but undoubtedly minuscule effect? Or even just to settle for not adding to the runaway levels of damage that our disconnected food shop was causing each and every day? We are children of the 90s. We grew up safe in the knowledge that the world's produce was at our fingertips at any time of the year. When we were kids, cuisine was regularly valued on the exoticism of its ingredients. Even if your palate was resolutely British, a Sunday roast at an ageing auntie's always included the smug mention that the family was consuming lamb imported from the other side of the world. Even in our twenties, the craze for exotic bottled water shipped, plastic encased, in vast quantities from tropical islands thousands of miles away, packed a serious economic punch. And then there's the avocado - a native of Mexico and now all but a dictionary definition of the British Millennial. We had come of age and then brought our children into the world on the assumption that it was normal to buy exotic food cheaply all year round. Things were clearly going to have to change, starting with my obsession with avocado on toast. But the second question was whether a straightforward food mile approach was even a worthwhile aim. When I put the question of food miles to Riverford Organic Farmers, the sustainably produced veg box people, they told me that for most of the year our carbon impact would be smaller if we bought organic tomatoes trucked in from Spain than those heated thanks to fossil fuels in a UK hothouse. That means the answer has to be to eat food grown in the UK at the time of year it is traditionally produced. We finally arrived at a robust solution - seasonal, native eating. Buy the book to find out how they tackled this! 1 bibliography; 14 black and white illustrations
Introducing the 2024 sustainable lifestyle challenge, a guide to lead you through the intricacies of a zero waste life without fear and uncertainty!
The city has reduced its trash more than any other American metropolis. But eliminating all garbage, it turns out, is an impractical goal.
Oh heyyy, it’s May! That means we’ve completed four months of our zero waste challenge. It’s really becoming second nature and that’s so cool. Here are some random insights …
The Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center stands as a beacon of sustainability in the heart of Tokushima Prefecture's Kamikatsu town. This remarkable initiative is
Do you feel like you are failing at your zero-waste lifestyle? My zero waste fails are plentiful, but remember, zero waste is a journey, not a destination!
Last week I spent the day with Lee Tilghman, the badass babe behind #leefromamerica, and made smoothie bowls! I met Lee through some friends in the clean food movement and was instantly drawn to her e
I love composting with bokashi. Okay, rewind. What is bokashi anyways? Bokashi is a way of fermenting food was
As of October 2023, Bornholm recycled roughly 70% of its waste and received most of its electricity from renewables, with an aim to install new renewable energy in the coming 18 months.
I've worked on compiling a huge list of zero waste swaps in alphabetical order! I'm sure I've left a few out so make sure to let me know in the comments
52 zero waste resolutions - one for every week of the year! In no particular order, feel free to tackle these in any way that makes sense for you.
In search of how to go zero waste? Here are 10 super simple ways to start your zero waste journey today! Welcome to the club!
Zero waste living can seem intimidating, but starting a zero waste lifestyle isn't as difficult as it may seem if you take it step-by-step.
Start small, start slow. An entirely zero waste life can be a daunting goal, but what if we could all make small steps in just one room of our home? Today's podcast guest is Max La Manna, a zero waste vegan chef and voice for low impact living through small changes every single day. Aileen
