Nothing is ever just black and white, there are many more than 50 shades of gray
said the incomparable Maya Angelou. and, the same thing, from a different angle, “Anything I can do we can do better” is the name of this website I think one of the hardest things with this whole climate situation is that we feel so alone, and that just by ourselves there is not much we can do. As I said before I have started a course at the U of M about action one can take on a personal, communal…
As I have mentioned before I have started a course about acting on climate change on the individual, communal, and political level. One of the items that we were offered was this fun TED talk. Enjoy, it takes less then 3 minutes. What do you think? Who will you be?
This is a quote given to me by a friend from one of her friends….. this lady tried to express how small acts can make a difference. I am exited to share that I started a free course given by the university of Michigan about how you can make a difference on a personal, community and national/political level with regards to the environment. It is not so much discussing climate science, but more behavior science, different models of how to…
I am going to repeat a few things from now on, we all have SO MUCH on our mind right now but I do not want this site to disappear because of that. I would like to share some of the changes I have made. I just bought some toothpaste tablets, and shampoo bars. I also started to use laundry sheets in stead of liquid detergent. My tooth brushes are bamboo (and my dentist’ report card is very good). I…
I have actually mentioned this resource before. They would have been the key note speakers at the Natural product convention in LA in the beginning of March we were slated to go to, and we decided literally 15 minutes before we would leave for the airport to cancel our trip……. only to find out that the next day the entire convention with 10.000 + vendors was cancelled. And that was the beginning of the pandemic era for us. Because most…
Now that we are all in lock down and have all this time to our disposal, (right ??) please take a moment to browse this fantastic website I found. I am always struck by how we all have the same way of thinking, no one has to be perfect, no one has to (or can) do it all or all at once, but TOGETHER, we can make a difference, there is power in numbers. The site is easy to read,…
we REALLY can make a turn around, if we work together! https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/mountain-gorilla-numbers-grow-in-spite-of-threats and finally this one about my beloved city where I was born and raised.
For a long time I have been hoping to find alternatives for the plastic bags I continue to use. I no longer use the plastic bags in the grocery store, both for fruit and veggies as well as the bigger grocery bags. These were very easy adjustments that did not cost any effort at all. For garbage and doggy poop, I still am using plastic 🙁 Recently I saw true compostable bags from Trader Joe’s which made me very happy….
there are many videos like this on Youtube, but with our limited time and attention span I decided to share only one. But how uplifting is this idea. Reduce Reuse Recycle, the solution to our “house on fire” (c) Greta Thurnberg has to come from all levels, from the ground up and from the top down, from stopping to produce all this waste to finding a way to use all this waste. These videos/ideas/initiatives give me great hope and it…
I came across this today. Knowledges Empowers. “When you know better you do better” Maya Angelou