My friend Axelle, super minimalist and organizer extraordinaire, sent me an email a few days ago that was so funny I would have snorted milk out my nose if I’d been drinking milk in the first place. Â Axelle doesn’t have a blog–or, she does, but she hasn’t written anything in it since 2010. Â So I […]
I’ve gone commercial!  Well, no I didn’t. But I did make a commercial. Okay, not exactly. Filmmaker Alec Bernal just finished making me an awesome YouTube video promo for my book Plastic-Free. All I did was show up… and bring along the plastic sea monster.  Check out the transformation… Feel free to share this video […]
Recently, several readers, including my dad, have forwarded me articles about a group of Yale students who discovered an Amazonian fungus (pestalotiopsis microspora) that can not only eat polyurethane plastic, but can actually survive on it as its sole source of carbon. Could a fungus be the solution to our plastic pollution problem? And what […]
I am so full of excitement right now I could burst. Â I just received the first case of my new book: Â Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too, and I feel like a proud mama right now. Â A few nights ago, I had a dream that the book arrived and […]
November 2014 Update: Unfortunately, Peppersmith has decided to start adding plastic to its gum base, so I can no longer recommend it. Fortunately, there’s Simply Gum, which is still completely plastic-free, and Glee Gum, which has recently reformulated its gum base to be plastic-free. I am leaving this post up for historical archive purposes (with […]
It’s been all over the news for the past two days: Â Six Oregon girls, travelling to an out of town soccer tournament in Seattle, all got sick with norovirus after passing around cookies in a reusable bag. Â Scientists from the Oregon Public Health department did some sleuthing and traced the virus to the reusable bag. […]
I’m back from my meditation retreat, where one of the common admonishments is “Don’t push the river.” Â What does that mean? Â To me, it’s about being in the flow and not exerting more effort than necessary to live peacefully and mindfully in the present moment. Â After all, the river’s gonna flow whether you push it […]
Sarah Schmiechen is a long-time reader of this blog and prior participant in the Show Your Plastic Trash Challenge. Â She emailed me recently to let me know about some of the successes and challenges she’s had in reducing her plastic consumption, and she suggested that it might be useful/helpful for me to post profiles of […]
Would you believe there is a company not only producing plastic products for the beach, but actually promoting them using a photo of an ocean wave sweeping one of their plastic gizmos, filled with a disposable plastic cup, towards the sea? I wasn’t planning on posting a rant today, as I’m leaving in a few […]
My belief is that there’s enough material in existence in the world that we could probably freeze all new production effective immediately and just get more creative with what’s already out there. –Josh Title, owner of the Cate & Levi Collection toy company. When I heard Josh say those words in his video about his […]