You may have noticed I haven’t been blogging super regularly. That’s because I’ve been traveling around giving talks on plastic-free living in lots of cool places and meeting some amazing people. Last week, I got together with Danielle Richardet (of the blog It Starts With Me), who cleans up plastic trash on her local beach […]
Hey, remember my rant last spring about the plastic Turtleback cup holder meant to be used at the beach? And how I thought it was so ironic to name a product for a sea animal that is routinely harmed by ocean plastic pollution? A bunch of green bloggers created quite a stir on Turtleback’s Facebook […]
A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from Gabriel Lamug-Nanawa (Gabby), a Jesuit priest in Cambodia, who has a proposal for churches in his local area to promote Plastic-Free Lent this year.  Last year, Gabby went on a plastic fast for Lent and found the experience to be not only good for the planet […]
We’ve all heard of the Bag Monster — that scary mountain of disposable plastic bags that accumulate in cupboards and closets–or worse, blow down the streets and into waterways and threaten wildlife. But have you encountered the Reusable Bag Monster? Â Witness the one in my kitchen: Good lord! Â How many reusable bags do two people […]
01/29/2013 Update: Richard Branson responds to my letter on his blog today: Plastic On Our Airlines. Dear Richard Branson & David Cush, This letter serves two purposes.  First, to express my sincere gratitude for all you have done to make Virgin America the only airline I can fly without crying the whole time, and second, […]
For those of us working to reduce the amount of plastic we consume and the plastic waste we produce, the holidays can be challenging. What do we do about plastic gifts and wrapping we might receive from well-meaning friends and family? First, it’s important to have some strategies for avoiding acquiring a lot of holiday […]
Hello, people and Happy New Year. Our human mom, Beth, is very very busy, so we wanted to help her out by writing a blog post to tell you about the amazing thing we got for Christmas this year. We’re not exactly sure what it is, but mom acted really excited when she opened it, […]
Of course, I don’t really believe that the world is going to end this Friday. Â That would be too easy. Â The damage we are doing to life on planet Earth is a slower process and one that has the potential to cause much more prolonged suffering. Â And as I sit here typing sentences and […]
I had lunch today with Pam Marcus, the founder of Lifefactory, a company that makes reusable glass water bottles and baby bottles. Â She is also one of the organizers of the Plastic Pollution Coalition’s “Think Beyond Plastic Innovation Competition.” Â There is a $50,000 prize at stake for the best idea for reducing plastic pollution, […]
Every year I visit the San Francisco Green Festival and wander up and down the aisles of vendor booths, looking for interesting plastic-free products but always finding a ton of plastic packaging. Â Organic foods packaged in plastic. Â Natural drinks in plastic bottles. Â Compostable products shrink-wrapped in plastic. Â But this year, my jaw hit the floor […]