Ready? OK, now that we’ve all freaked out, let’s take a breath. *Exhale* After about 2 weeks, it’s finally starting to sinking in and I can finally broadcast the news: I’m going to Midway. Not only am I going to Midway, I’m going there for 4 months. 4 whole months!!! For those of you who are…
While cleaning out the grounds from a recent French Press, I being my usual spastic self, somehow managed to chip and crack the glass beaker of the press. I was not happy. It wasn’t my French Press to break and now I had a fully functional lid and handle to go with a destroyed beaker….
If you think this is going to be another rant about another wasteful, single-use plastic items…you’re kind of right, but it’s more than just that. Ranting is fine and all, but I want to help you, my dear readers figure out solutions to this big plastic world we find ourselves in. I know from experience…
Sorry for the bad pun, but I had to grab your attention somehow. š Today I’m going to deviate for a moment and discuss something not entirely related to plastic. Today’s topic is wind. Wind farming, to be exact. Why do I want to devote an entire blog post to this? Well, for one, all…
Something we all know:Ā Nature. Is. Awesome. Why are we leveling rain forests for corn and cattle, when there exists fungi that have the potential to partially solve the growing global waste-management crisis? Why are you ruining nature, big faceless corporations?! *shakes fist* Because we are in a crisis. If you weren’t aware of it five…
GOOD…what were you thinking? Sometimes I forget that there are still a ton of people out there who don’t realize how wasteful single-use plastic items are. So first, a brief thanks to you, GOOD, for grounding me a bit and for giving me fodder to write this post. First, if you haven’t yet, please read…
Three weeks after Christmas… So why am I even bothering writing a post about Christmas when it’s mid-January? Because my Christmas was too awesomeĀ not to write about! Yes, there were great gifts (more on that in a minute) but there were also great friends, family and more food than I care to think about. Not…
Dear Readers, I think I can safely say that this last week is the first since the conference that I have felt as elated, accomplished and generally PSYCHED to talk trash. I amĀ inspired. I had a moment today when I realized that what I’m doing now is exactly what I want to be doing and…
Hello Friends! Today I’m going to take a break from ranting about plastic to instead write about a totally awesome event I participated in this past weekend: Moving Planet Vermont. What was Moving Planet? Well…first, you need to know that it wasn’t just a Vermont thing. No, this event spanned 175 countries…all on one day….
Readers, I need to blow off some steam, so pardon the following rant. I’m hoping some of you can empathize: Maybe it’s just me. Maybe it’s because I’ve seen what trash does when it gets out of your garbage can and into a part of the world where people rarely are. I’ve seen the waste…
Where did summer go? One minute I setting up a garden with my roommates, the next I’m staring at my now-defunct cucumber plants and watching as all the college kids come back into town. Shipyard Pumpkinhead is on the shelves at our local grocery store, so I suppose I had better accept my fate. Autumn…
The date: December 3, 1993 (incidentally, this was a Friday. I was probably in kindergarten?) The show: Bill Nye the Science Guy The episode? GarbageĀ (watch below) Bill Nye Episode 13: Garbage Bill Nye, along with a cohort of awesome elementary-age students, explain to us that garbage can be natural and a lot of the time,…