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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.... |
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Please Pardon My Dust!
I’m currently working on transferring this site to WordPress. Eventually, it will be great beyond our wildest imaginations. But right now, there may be a few glitches, links that don’t work, and doors to nowhere, not unlike the Winchester Mystery House. Thank you for your patience.
Here are a few things you [...]
EARTH DAY 2009 LESS PLASTIC PLEDGE
Last Wednesday, at Oakland’s Earth Expo, I asked attendees to fill out green pledge cards vowing to give up some plastic from their lives. Those who pledged were entered in a random drawing for a gift basket, containing all kinds of less-plastic goodies: ChicoBag, reusable water bottle, & bamboo cutlery donated by Whole [...]
Read the full post.Goodbye to Fake Plastic Fish. Hello Johnson & Johnson.
April 2 2009 Update: The following was written on April 1. Please keep that in mind as you read it. I have not stopped writing this blog!
Well, it’s been a good run. But just this morning, I accepted a job in the marketing department of Johnson & Johnson (Shhh… my current employer [...]
When Life Insists on a Time Out
I came down with the flu a week ago. I tried very hard to keep on blogging, keep up with my job, and arrange for the final Take Back The Filter event to deliver our 611 collected Brita filters to Clorox on Friday. But working through fever and chills is not a good [...]
Read the full post.Carnival Of The Green #154
Welcome to the 154th edition of the weekly Carnival of the Green, a collection of environmentally-focused blog posts which moves from one blog to the next each Monday and is managed by Tree Hugger.
Last week, the Carnival of the Green was hosted by Natural Collection’s ooffoo site. Next week’s is scheduled to be [...]
Taking a little blog break
Just when all kinds of exciting things are happening, I’m feeling under the weather (physically) and need to recharge and refocus. So, I’m going to take a little blog break until next week. I know, I teased you on Sunday. Don’t worry. I have a fun post up my sleeve. [...]
Read the full post.Stay tuned for a guest post from Michael
I’m off to my meditation retreat in a few hours. Tried to get a post up tonight and just didn’t have time. But stay tuned for another guest post from Michael. I have no idea what he’ll write about (maybe bottles, maybe something else) but I’m sure it will be entertaining and [...]
Read the full post.Zzzzzzzzz………….
Yes, I am still alive. Yes, I know I’m late with my Weekly Tally. No, I haven’t forgotten it. But I have been BUSY BUSY Bzzzzzzz!!!
Did another Rethinking Plastics presentation this morning for the Waldorf School in San Francisco. Had to edit the presentation for kids and also for the time [...]
Happy Birthday Terrible Person!
Michael’s 40 years old today. Whew! Look how mature he’s suddenly become.
We celebrated by first attending a seminar on “Greening Your Law Firm” followed by a long walk across San Francisco from the Embarcadero to Ocean Beach and back to the Pacific Cafe.
I saw all kinds of plastic stuff to write about, but [...]
We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Blog Posts…
I was happily surprised this morning to discover that this blog has been added to Blogger’s list of Blogs of Note which means that it appears on the front page and dashboard of Blogger for 10 days, available to anyone who logs on to their Blogger account. This was completely unexpected and welcome. [...]
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!
