Tomorrow is Amalia's first day of Kindergarten and my day (probably) of sobbing quietly while looking at her baby pictures. Jokes aside, it felt like the perfect time to bring back my sustainability challenges with...

We're back with a new sustainability challenge for the first month of 2021! For new readers and for those of us that need a refresher on these challenges, here is a little recap: It all...

It's November which means the holiday season is upon us (depending on who you ask). I went to the grocery store over the weekend and somehow it magically had changed from pumpkin-spiced everything to egg...

Junk mail is annoying. I think we can all agree on that. But more importantly, it has a huge environmental impact. Each American receives an average of 41 pounds of junk mail per year which...

Before we built our garden, I had thought that there wouldn't be any use for compost, so we waited to start, but I now know that you can use it for indoor plants, outdoor plants,...

Eating less meat and dairy is the number one best thing you can do as an individual for the environment (according to many sources). So while giving up plastic water bottles and cleaning up our...