Julia Smith’s first grade class at Rooftop Alternative School, perched high up in San Francisco’s Twin Peaks area, is different from most, and Julia Smith is a special kind of teacher. For example, in an effort to teach the children how to choose plastic-free grocery options, she actually took them on a field trip to […]
11/09/2016Â Update: Six years after this post was written, California has FINALLY banned plastic bags across the state! I’m pissed off. I live in a city, like many others in California, that wants to ban plastic shopping bags, but we can’t. Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, and other California cities are under attack by […]
Check out what high school students like Jordan Howard, Rudy Sanchez, and Lindsay Williams can teach us about protecting the environment and living joyful lives.
Just say no to those little plastic pizza savers. Is saving a little bit of cheese more important than saving the environment?
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Three years […]
Wow. Watch this heartbreaking video about our plastic legacy, set to Queen’s Who Wants To Live Forever. Many of the images will be familiar, but it also contains haunting footage I’d never seen before.  How does this make you feel? Hide or Take Action? Watching a video like this makes me want to go back to […]
Plastic-Free ways to store produce. Link to useful list from the Berkeley Ecology Center.
What do you do when you have to sit through a very stressful film about how corporate America is destroying the planet, and the screening takes place in a night club so everyone else has a drink in their hand to take the edge off, and you’re trying to keep it together with a glass […]
Plastic-Free Living Discussion covering pantyhose alternatives, bulk foods packaging, plastic kids’ toys, plastic-free fishing bait, and other fun stuff.
They’re plastic-free (Whole Foods bulk bin), meat-free, and at the rate I’m eating them, I should be three sizes bigger by this summer. (That jar was full a week ago.) This is the opposite of conscious eating, I think. Not beating myself up. My addictions are doing a good enough job of that already. Just […]