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Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen our sustainability-minded community ask: “What does this global pandemic mean for the zero waste movement?” We...

Is it  hypocritical to promote the buying of new stuff on a zero waste blog? I hope not, because the following items were bought new (our could be...

You’ve rewatched The Office for the nth time and finished Tiger King… now what?  There’s a lot of great entertainment out there, but most of it is...

Anyone attempting a zero waste lifestyle knows the exasperation when a lunch date packages their leftovers in a Styrofoam clam shell and plastic b...

Surfing turned me into an environmentalist. Though I wasn’t exactly a tree-hater ten years ago when I lived in a landlocked city, I was generall...

With 2019 coming to an end and 2020 just around the corner, we’re reflecting on all our steps taken towards zero waste this past year and looking ...

Gifts - We all want them, we all get them, but what do we do with them? As we are socially obliged to buy holiday gifts for parents, siblings, cou...

After forty years in the same kitchen, my grandma’s potato peeler finally broke. It wasn’t a particularly interesting peeler - what kitchen utensi...

Sometimes, life’s problems encroach on you like a pack of angry dogs, but you never have enough time, money, or energy to fight back. Instead, you...

Like all of my zero-waste idols, I have now hopped on the vinegar train. It took a little while to get started (mainly because I was finishing up ...

We live in a plastic-burdened world, and the effort to avoid the pervasive material entails some obvious inconvenience. We must remember our ...

The passion to live a less wasteful life didn’t hit me overnight and I did not go cold turkey-zero waste. To be honest, I’m really glad I didn’t!...