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Our oceans are filling up with plastic: plastic that harms wildlife and never biodegrades; plastic that enters the food chain and leaches toxic chemicals. This blog is a record of my journey to live with as little unnecessary plastic as possible. Won't you join me? Fake plastic fish may be cute, but if we keep filling up our oceans with plastic, they could be the only kind we have left.... |
Category: Show Us Your Trash
All New Updated Plastic Challenge Web Site!
Update: If you tried out the new site and found it broken in Internet Explorer, please try again. I think I’ve worked out the bugs. Let me know if anything looks weird. Thanks!
If you haven’t taken the Show Us Your (Plastic) Trash Challenge yet, now is the time. The women [...]
No Impact Man Book Winner & Discussion
Ready to start reading No Impact Man with me? Do you have your book yet (borrowed or new or electronic?) Oh, wait, one of you doesn’t. And that person is Erin, aka Conscious Shopper, who is the winner of the give-away. Erin, email me your mailing address so I can send [...]
Read the full post.Let’s Talk Diets & Why Guilt Doesn’t Work.
You’ve probably heard the saying, “Diets don’t work.” When it comes to lasting lifestyle changes, radical crash diets certainly don’t work. And I’m not just talking about food. Writers who decide to give up all plastic in one week (as this ReadyMade.com writer did last week) are not likely to succeed in [...]
Read the full post.Update: Show Us Your (Plastic) Trash Challenge
As I mentioned yesterday, many of you have taken the challenge… so many in fact that I felt a separate sub-blog was in order to collect all the tallies. And so (drum roll please) I hereby announce the inauguration of the
which can be found at http://fakeplasticfish.com/showyourplastic/.
Here is a recap of the challenge rules as [...]
General Housekeeping & off on vacation
I’ve got a bunch of random housekeeping items to share (in no particular order) and then I’m off with Michael to get away from the computer for a few days and enjoy trees, fresh air, ocean waves, and perhaps a terrifying roller coaster ride or two. Can anyone guess where we’re going?
Item #1: [...]
Challenge: Show Us Your (Plastic) Trash!
Beth throws down the gauntlet, upon which Soots proceeds to gnaw. Nom nom nom! It is plastic, after all. Yummy!
So as you all know, I’ve been collecting and tallying my own plastic trash for almost two years. The experience has been educational for me, and I hope, for readers of this [...]
Read the full post.Sponsors
Read my post about plastic-free recycled ReBinder school & office supplies here.
Read my post about GreenBoatStuff.com here! Their stuff is not just for boats!
