The following is a guest post from Balaka B. Ghosal who contacted me last year to share her zero waste, plastic-free journey. Enjoy! Most big journeys in our lives start with a story. Mine does, too. Right after coming from India to Houston, Texas, with a six-year-old in tow, I was excited about the amazing […]
13-year-old Cambria Bartlett contacted me last year to do a phone interview about living plastic-free.  She and a group of other homeschoolers, calling themselves Heirs to Our Oceans, were creating a video about caring for our oceans, and Cambria’s personal focus was on plastic. Since then, I’ve met Cambria in person and learned what exceptional […]
Hannah Testa, a 14-year-old student in the state of Georgia, has joined the ranks of other influential kids raising awareness of the plastic pollution problem.  In fact, she’s managed to get the State of Georgia to declare February 15, 2017, Plastic Pollution Awareness Day.  Here’s her story, in her own words. People always ask me how […]
The following is an email I received from reader Susan Siu about how much she loves having to take her recycling to the local transfer center instead of having curbside pickup.  I loved it so much, I asked her if she would send me pictures and let me post her email here.  Don’t get me wrong: […]
Last week, I received an email from a new blogger who calls herself Little Urban Greenie. Â She’s a mom and “homesteader in the making.” Â She’s also expecting a new baby in the next month or so and plans to significantly reduce the amount of disposable products and plastics used in the birthing process this time […]
The following is a guest post by two German students, Laura and Sophie, who tried an experiment to live one week without plastic trash. Â Please enjoy, and if you know of good resources in Germany, please be sure and leave a comment for them. Sophie: The first plastic-free shopping The first plastic-free shopping was not […]
Last year, I received the following email from blog reader Melliny: Hi…I recently began converting plastic to glass in my kitchen. It has been such an exciting experience to me that I took photos along the way to inspire my family to hopefully do the same…. The fact is that storing good food in glass is very beautiful, which is […]
Do you have a hard time letting go of things because they might be useful one day? Are you reluctant to give away your old plastic kitchenware for fear that someone else will be harmed by it? Or that they won’t dispose of it properly when they’re done with it? Do you resist tossing things […]
Photo Restaurante Praia Arrifana © Michelle Cassar is a long-time reader of this blog and committed anti-plastic activist, although I’m not sure she would actually call herself an activist, nor anti plastic.  She’s also a surfer, photographer, and world traveller who has been living in Portugal for quite a while.  Back in 2011, she sent […]
I love meeting people from around the world who are taking the plastic-free challenge in a very public way. Â The more people do this, the easier it will become for others to get started. Â I especially enjoy learning about how people around the world see the issue of plastic and what challenges they face. […]