Posts tagged as: reduce
1. Buy Your Food From Bulk Bins. Most natural food stores, and many supermarkets, offer a variety of loose goods like flours, powders, pastas, beans, nuts, dried fruit, coffee, tea, and spices – and there are awesome advantages to buying these items bulk. Firstly, you don’t pay for anything other than the [...]
Who loves alliteration? We do! We do! The Monday Monthly Mission is our latest installment, and the name pretty much says it all. On the first Monday of every month, I’ll assign a new ‘mission’ – a shift, a habit, a source of inspiration – for all of us to work on. There’s strength (and [...]
Itty Bitty Bonzai is a collection of tiny tips and tricks for living a life more mindful. Small actions, collectively and compounded, become a powerful force of change. #4 If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you’re probably hearing the first whispers of spring. Here in the Pacific NW the daffodils have popped up, virtually overnight, [...]
Itty Bitty Bonzai is a collection of tiny tips and tricks for living a life more mindful. Small actions, collectively and compounded, become a powerful force of change. #3 Looking for a new way to further curb your energy consumption? What about incorporating dimmers into all of your home light fixtures? These easy-to-install devices are [...]
Being an Ethical Sartorialist is a multi-pronged approach to fashion and lifestyle, and one of the major tenets aims to maximize versatility in order to minimize consumerism. The key to a low-consumption closet is to build a core collection of diverse pieces – ones that can be worn year-round and in multiple styles. Everyone has [...]