Treading Lightly is a blog series on ways to lighten our carbon footprint. I have a confession to make – I am a hoarder of old calendar pages. I love the photos and artwork, and some of it I just can’t bear to throw in the recycle bin. So I…
On Memorial Day of 2020, as the pandemic was really getting going and many were sheltering in isolation, a new tradition was initiated: Taps Across America. Assisted by publicity from Steve Hartman of CBS’s On the Road, the movement inspired thousands of Americans to pause at 3:00 p.m. local time…
Remember all the spinach recalls a couple of decades ago, because the farms were watering with contaminated water and people were getting sick from eating the spinach? Or more recently, the “throw away your romaine” warnings, for the same reason? I’ve been fed up with commercial produce for quite a…
Our capitalist culture wants us to throw away any garment that is slightly damaged. Socks aren’t expensive – why not buy a new pair? But there are costs to that practice that have nothing to do with our bank accounts. Costs to the planet, in the form of trash in…
