Sara is a ceramics teacher and told me that while always wanted to participate in an organized beach cleanup, she routinely found herself working and was never able to make it to one of them. So when she moved close to the beach this February, she took it upon herself to create her own...
From what I’ve seen, the stock for the bulk bins comes in much bigger bags than we would buy on the shelf. Even if the packaging is plastic, a huge bag of something is going to require much less plastic than multiple small bags. But stay tuned on this because I’m planning a visi...
San Francisco’s stall shows that a city’s biggest obstacle to achieving big goals may be the people it serves. No matter how progressive the people are, how long they’ve had to assimilate the mission, how convenient it is to use the freely provided recycling and composting bins, how st...
1) Travel Mug Water bottles are great, but for me, a travel mug is eminently versatile. At the airport, I carry it through security empty and then fill up at a water fountain on the other side. I did hear that TSA has been screening insulated mugs a little more heavily lately, but ...
(as well as Berkeley and San Francisco) we have city-wide composting. We can put all of our food scraps (including meat) and food-soiled paper, along with yard waste, into our green bins. It’s then picked up with our garbage and taken to a commercial compost facility where our food...
Well, recently, several readers have excitedly informed me that Stahlbush’s packaging is now labeled as biodegradable. So I went out and bought a bag of frozen spinach just so I could look inside. Here’s what I found: Looks like plastic, right? TheStahlbush web sitedoesn’t give any ...
This post is about toxic adhesives used to apply labels to food packaging and whether or not those chemicals can migrate into our foods. But it's also a convoluted story about the foul odor emanating from the general direction of my dishwasher. Stinky Di
Six years ago, Michael and I got a notice that a Trader Joe's grocery store was going to be opening down the street from our house. This was back before I had woken up to the problems with plastic, and the news thrilled me. I had visions of all the fresh
For those who are able, there is a system for composting dog poop in your backyard. I haven’t tried this myself (because we don’t have a dog) but I’d be interested to hear from someone who has. Here are instructions formaking your own dog waste composter. And here is adog was...