Things we can do to make our homes, our jobs, our cars, and our personal practices more Earth-friendly.
The shift from outdoor activities to indoor ones can reduce our awareness of the impact we have on the environment around us. Out of sight, out of mind, so to speak. The fact is that many of our actions during the winter months can contribute to climate issues, whether large or small scale. Here are …
Last time, we talked about circularity, which is one way you can reduce your personal or family impact on the environment. But there are many products we use on a daily or weekly basis that can’t be cycled back into the production chain so easily. The next best thing is to lower the waste produced …
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A few issues/posts back, I talked about plastic—that ubiquitous substance on which our societies have become dependent, and for which there is no green disposal method. If we can’t burn our plastic trash, if it won’t decompose in a landfill (not within a reasonable timeframe, and maybe not even then), if the result of so …
I subscribe to the Broiler Room, a newsletter from Bad Manners (https://www.badmanners.com) about “food, pop culture, and everything that makes a meal.” Usually, their content is about—what else?—food. I highly recommend it, though I will warn that they use some … colorful … language. But recently their entire newsletter talked about plastics. No one yet knows …
