The Gift of Water
Water is a precious gift: precious because it is essential to all life and a gift because it is freely given. How are we interacting with this gift? Years ago I had the privilege to work […]
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Things Fall Apart: A Tale of Planned Obsolescence
Do you remember when you first heard the phrase “planned obsolescence”? Was it in some sort of classroom, or used by your local repairman, or by a parent frustrated with a broken toaster, lawn mower, phone?
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Fast Fashion/Slow Fashion
When discussing the clothes that we wear and how those clothes affect our world, we have to start with the fact that fast fashion is bad for our planet and detrimental to the people who make
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Why Care? Reusing and Recycling is Part of Our Human Heritage
Our ancestors valued materials and household items before “zero waste” came into fashion. It is part of our history and a way of life we must adopt again. As we sped towards our path of “progress”
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Reducing Food Waste
The first time I raised hogs for my own family’s table, I got a strange request from my Grandma Lou Lou. We were chatting about how to make the perfect sausage-she was letting me borrow her
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Tips to Reduce or Reuse Plastic
Plastics, named from the Greek plastikos (meaning moldable), is an amazing product with a myriad of uses. It is petroleum derived, with additives, that in the early 1900s became widespread, due to it being light, durable
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