As a follow up to my first Kitchen plastic rehab, I am continuing to work through the items in our kitchen where there is plastic. This is a process and I am always mindful that the goal is progress, not perfection. Plastic is everywhere in our lives and in our stores. It is difficult to…

Can I just say I LOVE San Francisco! We are such a progressive city and I feel so fortunate to live here! Just this past weekend the first annual Zero Waste and Plastic Free Holiday Market was hosted at Fort Mason in the old firehouse. This event featured 20+ local vendors selling eco friendly gifts and…

If your kitchen is anything like our kitchen, there is plastic everywhere. It was not until I started this journey that I became extremely aware that seemly everything we purchase is wrapped in plastic. As I evaluated my kitchen and the food + beverages we eat in our home, I employed my rule of tackling…

I recently started traveling for work taking me all over the country. As my travel increased, so did my plastic usage! I became acutely aware of how much I was throwing away on a daily basis. As I mentioned in a previous post, I like to make these changes in achievable pieces so I thought…

Did you know there are 552 million shampoo bottles produced a year that could be ending up in landfills. And since it’s plastic, some surely lands in our oceans, breaking down into micro and nano plastics and therefore entering our food stream through fish and impacting many other loved ocean creatures. If you just listen…