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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: home improvements
Fantastic Letter from PolarSolar to Fake Plastic Fish
While I was away this weekend, I received this email from a San Francisco company that installs solar water heaters:
from Joseph Wright
to Beth Terry
date Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:05 PM
subject Thanks and Question
Hi Beth,
I wanted to write to let you know what a hero you are of mine and I want to thank you for the positive influence [...]
Help! I’m buried under paper and I can’t get up!
So here’s the deal. I promised to write a post on BlogHer.com about plastic-free organizing tips next week. But I have no business writing any such thing. Just take a look at my desk:
I’ve been trying to organize my office space ever since we moved here in 2005, and it’s just not [...]
Year 2, Week 43 Results: .05 oz of plastic waste… Again!
Just so you know, my scale will only weigh in increments of .1 oz. For the past two weeks, it has measured my plastic waste at 0.00, so I am guessing at .05 because I know that reality is somewhere between 0.00 and .1.
The full tally for last week:
Plastic baggies of nuts and bolts [...]
Read the full post.Plastic-free yogurt? Well, almost. Plus ways to use whey.
Turns out we do have an almost plastic-free prepared yogurt here in the SF Bay Area. Saint Benoît yogurt comes in a reusable, returnable ceramic container and is sold at Whole Foods, Berkeley Bowl, and other natural foods stores. As with the Straus milk containers, you pay a deposit which the store refunds [...]
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!
