How much do I need to do in my life to have an positive impact on the environment? How can I live a zero waste lifestyle and still have time for my life? Why do individuals have to bear the burden of being eco-friendly. Isn't about time the corporations that produce the single use plastic products take responsibility for the environment and make changes to their processes. Let's join the movement to #breakfreefromplastic.
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What can we do with old broken bicycles and the things we don't want anymore? Recycle, repurpose and ultimately change our relationship with the lifecycle of everything we own and have yet to buy.
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Fixing up old furniture is not only good for the environment as it keeps it out of the landfill, but it can also be a fun and creative exercise.
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Managing all the photos we take these days is hard. Managing the photos we took before digital and all the images our parents and grandparents took is harder. We need to find the time and energy to review and preserve the images we want to keep now so that it doesn't become a burden for others later.
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Finding sustainable, ethical AND local fashion that you like can be a challenge it's worth it.
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During a sunny winter vacation in Miami, we started to see environmental cracks in the surface of this urban paradise . Between rising seas, plastic pollution and diminishing drinking water, Miami faces some hard choices ahead if it is to maintain its draw as a vacation hotspot.
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As a photographer I was totally attracted to my parents collection of Silverplate. So much so I turned it into a photo project called Refections. You can see more of the group here. But as I worked on this project and kept finding more and more, I wondered if there were more houses like ours, brimming with Silverplate that looks great on a shelf but is seldom used.
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On my reading list this month is the book The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson. As harsh as that term seem to us in North America, Death Cleaning perfectly describes the act of purging and sorting the belongings of a lifetime before you die. This process should be done by everyone.
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I don't think minimalism could get any trendier right now. It is so widespread that the backlash has begun. In this article in The Guardian, Chelsea Fagan argues that minimalism is just another form of conspicuous consumption available only to the rich. In this post, Kimberly Button argues that minimalism made her life harder rather than easier. Like everything that humans tend to overwork, ruin or misinterpret, minimalism doesn't have to be done to death.
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As a self proclaimed environmentalist, one might be surprised that I would write a post about Las Vegas. But if there ever was a place that needed some environmental scrutiny it would be Vegas.
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