Nondisposable Living

After watching a documentary about the negative effects of our garbage, I initiated a challenge to avoid consuming disposable things. The good news is that there are alternatives.

Monday, December 8, 2014

Watch the documentary, Plastic Paradise

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If you live in the United States, the documentary, Plastic Paradise, is now available on hulu.com. It's 57 minutes. Please share: Clic...
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Friday, November 21, 2014

We interrupt our [not so] regular programming to bring you this

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A picture says a thousand words. A moving picture says a thousand moving words.      At First You Think They're Just Pl...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Trick or treat?

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In my last post , I wrote Johnson & Johnson about their product, woven dental floss, which I like but which comes in a disposable plasti...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Reach for what you want

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A few years ago, I found a dental floss that I really like, and I started buying five or more packages at a time to avoid '2-inches-left...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Walk a mile in these shoes

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This morning, I took a pair of leather dress shoes with a torn insole to my neighborhood shoe repair shop. My town is strangely lucky to hav...
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Thursday, August 14, 2014

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can..."

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Today I started to wonder if any one person's individual efforts can possibly make a difference. In sixty to seventy short years, we...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014

Plastic-free fruit? That's peachy.

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On the first day of the plastic-free challenge, my friend, Donna, taught me how to make yogurt . This weekend, I learned how to can peaches....
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Sunday, August 3, 2014

This 35 days' worth of trash < the first 20

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Tomorrow is trash collection day. It's been five weeks (35 days) since I've taken anything to the curb since just before the end of ...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

On the delicate matter of toilet paper

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A s I mentioned on day #11 , I have not included toilet paper in the list of items to avoid as part of my disposable waste reduction...
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Environmental sustainability has been a long-time interest: I started my undergrad institution's recycling club; joined a "Natural Step" discussion group; have had three blower door tests and made successive improvements at home. I compost, and take garbage to the curb maybe every 3 weeks. Still... I'm one of a million people named Sarah who has consumed disposables since I was old enough to walk. This blog is dedicated to 20 days of seeing what's possible, inspired by the movie Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Please, join the challenge - and share your discoveries.
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