Four ways to tackle wasted food on Food Waste Friday
In honour of Canada’s Waste Reduction Week and Food Waste Friday, we’re here to talk about wasted food and what you can do about it!
Success Stories
Local Food Security During COVID-19: A Reflection
Local food is one thing I get really excited about. It is so damn important to close the gap between food producers and consumers. Buying local food means supporting our neighbours and local economies, using less plastic, saving the oceans, and becoming more healthy. There is no reason not to support this movement, people! This…
Thrifted Threads with Purpose
Happy Monday, dear readers! Last week, I wrote about sustainable coffee solutions and how my Internet community connected me with the exact reusable product I needed. This week, I’d like to share another, similar story…this time about thrifted threads – with purpose! I’m about to go on a yarn about a collaborative effort by a…
Sustainable Coffee Solutions
Happy Saturday, readers! I hope wherever you’re tuning in, that you have a cup of something warm in-hand. This post is all about community connections and sustainable coffee solutions. Let’s brew it up! Recently, I was brewing myself a cup of coffee using a cone brewer, when I remembered hearing about a reusable solution to…
Plastic-Less Flower Power
I’m not much of a flowers kind of person; I typically think they are a colossal waste of money and resources. All the plastic packaging, and the shipping…I mean, do we really ship flowers halfway across the world, just to have colourful bouquets grace our dining room tables in the dead of winter? It seems…
Serving Up Success (One Plant At a Time)
Last night I went to a film screening of the documentary “Eating You Alive” a feature length film about the science behind why we’re dealing with such prevalent chronic illness in North America, why we’re being fed the wrong information about food, and how a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle can have a tremendous, positive impact on…
Flying Above Plastics
Good news! Recently, Portugese airline Hi Fly announced that it would offer four (count ’em!) flights from Lisbon to Brazil. Seems like pretty standard stuff…planes take off every day Ryan, what’s so special about this news? Oh just that all passengers flying aboard these planes would receive no single-use plastics during the entire flight, that’s…
The Kootenay Co-Op: A Community Haven
Success story time! I recently traveled to Nelson, BC – a place revered by environmentalists the world over (apparently – I’m new to Canada and still learning the ropes) and while there, we frequented a non-chain grocery store called The Kootenay Co-op, which is an independent cooperative grocery store in the downtown region. The experience…
Back to the Old Ways
We are parked alongside the highway, joining the throngs of cars parks on either side of this busy road, as far as the eye can see. We hike through a lush, green forest, the path occasionally littered with the evidence of humans that have come before (and blackberry brambles, from which we feast). Finally, we…
Serendipity In Princeton, BC
Road trips are good for many things: they get us out of the familiar and put us in touch with our surroundings in a whole new way. We see places differently, we meet people we wouldn’t normally, and we get inspired. This is why I love road trips! Right now Jan and I are on…