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…
Hello dear readers, and happy Wednesday! It’s time to Wake-Up for some wins on this Wednesday. If you read my last post, you’ll know that this is a new thing I’m into: sharing “good news highlights” from around the Internet. What I failed to mention was the focus of these “wins” and that, simply, is…
Hello dear readers and Happy New Decade! In honour of fresh starts, I’m offering up a new treat on my blog called Wake-Up Wednesday Wins. This will be a weekly series where-in I share some good-news highlights, curated by me, from around the web. After all, that’s what the whole point of this blog is!…
Chopsticks. We’ve all used chopsticks, or struggled to comprehend how they function as a fork alternative, at some point in our existence on this planet. Chopsticks are a sliver of the massive, global waste stream and yet are an important item to talk about when we discuss single-use anything and the impact our meals have…
A trip to Blackie Spit in Surrey, BC brings beautiful views and musings on trash cleanups.
Friendly PSA: hug your water today. It’s World Water Day! Water Is Everywhere It’s sometimes hard to know where to stop when considering how much of our lives touch water. I started adding up every interaction I had with water today (and today is not even over), then quickly realized every moment of every day…
Let’s be real: it can be hard to be an environmentalist. Thankfully, the path to environmentalist is littered with glimmers of humanity: real, authentic human beings being GOOD. I think it’s safe to say though, that the life of someone hell-bent on saving the planet is not always an easy one. In fact, I think…
Preface: This post is about a recent trip I was fortunate to take with Jan, to Alberta, for a film project with Canadian National Railways that involved some pretty amazing grains. What follows is simply an observation of my experience: I am in no way intentionally promoting or misrepresenting any of the industries or companies…
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…
Recently, I cleaned my closet. No, it had nothing to do with Marie Kondo. Yes, it had everything to do with paring down my stuff. Am I roughing it? Let’s find out… Decisions, decisions… I have a hard time making decisions. Said everybody else under the sun, right? 😉 When it comes to orchestrating my…
What do a winter reading list, an environmental film festival, and a new outlook on 2019 have to do with one another? Read on to find out… This past December, I went through my stacks and stacks (and stacks) of books and instead of purging (thanks for the vote of confidence, Anakana Schofield), I committed…
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…