By Liesl Clark Well, I wasn’t the only one who created it. But the first iteration began with a pile of trash on my dining room floor. I had an hour to spare one day a year ago when I was inputting hundreds of reduce, reuse, and recycle solutions into a database we were creating […]
By Liesl Clark It was an “Ah ha!” moment for me. And it came from my husband whom I’ve lived with for 10 years, so you can imagine my surprise. No need to toss out your burnt toast. Just scrape off the brown/black carbon with a….cheese grater! That’s it. Enough said. Enjoy your carbon-free toast. […]
By Liesl Clark This weekend is one of 2 weekends each year we can recycle styrofoam on our little Puget Sound island. Our favorite store on the island, Bay Hay and Feed (a feed store of course,) will accept clean block styrofoam from islanders who have stockpiled it over the past 6 months. They chose […]
By Liesl Clark It’s getting obscene. Something has to change, or I’m going to have to take back all our claims of being a “near-zero waste family.” The pooper has become a one-dog-microplastic-producing-chewup-machine the likes of which has never been seen this side of the Mississippi. We went away for the holidays and left our […]
By Liesl Clark Have you ever been to a 3D movie and walked out with a pair of 3D glasses before remembering to toss them in the drop box at the door? I have. My whole family has, so that means 4 pairs of glasses. Worse yet, we’ve been to theaters where there is no […]
By Liesl Clark Refuse & Reduce: We never buy anything for shipping like envelopes, bubble-pack mailers, Tyvek pouches, padded envelopes and boxes because we receive so many of them. Why would I buy new ones when I have plenty coming in the door? “Because they’ll look used and that won’t look professional if you reuse […]
By Liesl Clark Visiting grandma means we get to dive into her boxes of fabric scraps. For 40 years, no fabrics have been wasted in her house. Just last month, she passed on several boxes to a local quilt-making organization, but luckily we found a few more up in her attic. We looked in the […]
By Liesl Clark As we’re ringing in the new year, baking gingerbread men is a tradition our family has endured since I can remember. True to form, my mom, “Grandma,” has come up with yet another innovative reuse for an everyday kitchen tool: Use a garlic press to make gingerbread people hair! Use a knife […]
By Liesl Clark When it’s time to take down your wreath after the holidays, get out your pruning clippers and cut the wreath frame free from the pine boughs, compost your pine boughs and you’ve got a wreath frame for next year. We place our aging wreaths around the chicken coop fence to adorn their […]
By Liesl Clark You should never need to buy ribbon for wrapping gifts. Here’s why: “If every family reused just two feet of holiday ribbon, the 38,000 miles of ribbon saved could tie a bow around the entire planet.” I tried to find the source for this fact but was unsuccessful, even though there are […]
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