Treading Lightly is a blog series on ways to lighten our carbon footprint. You know that cliche about Mondays? Yeah. Well, it’s sort of like that for me today, so I decided to do a Treading Lightly post to get me back on track about what really matters. Cheese! And,…
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…
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…
In recent years, there have been numerous stories about lettuce being contaminated by (ahem) unhealthy watering practices. “Throw away your Romaine!” has been in the news over and over. I don’t like being frightened of produce. Before Romaine, it was spinach. Again and again, spinach contaminated. It actually gave me…
