The Trash Can IS The Environment

The Trash Can IS The Environment

Throwing away trash…It’s so addictively easy. Can’t figure out what to do with all that plastic packaging? How about all these food scraps? Old ripped clothes or a broken TV? Just toss it all in the trash and you never have to worry about it again. Have you ever thought about what you would do if you DIDN’T have that […]

Kombucha Journey, Start!

Kombucha Journey, Start!

As far as sustainable drinks go, nothing beats water. It’s healthy, plentiful, doesn’t have to come packaged in plastic or even bottles. It just gets piped straight into our homes! But drinking nothing but water can get kind of dull, and trying to find other things to drink that don’t come in plastic can be tough. I drink soy milk […]

TSL: SFN – This Sustainable House w/ Anna DeSimone

TSL: SFN – This Sustainable House w/ Anna DeSimone

Anna DeSimone is the author of Live In A Home That Pays You Back, Housing Finance 2020: New Mortgage Programs for the New Generation of Homebuyers, Retirement Planning and Investing, and Welcome to the Agrihood: Housing, Shopping, and Gardening for a Farm-to-Table Lifestyle. She is a nationally recognized expert in housing finance, and author of more than 40 professional guidebooks […]

My neighborhood got a farmer’s market!

My neighborhood got a farmer’s market!

Why having a farmers market makes for the start of a sustainable neighborhood This past Saturday, a brand new farmer’s market started IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. If you’ve been following me a while, you may know that I used to go to a farmer’s market every Sunday, where I had worked it out with one of the farmers to get me […]

TSL: Solve For Nature – Water Is The Way w/ Anthony Ricchio

TSL: Solve For Nature – Water Is The Way w/ Anthony Ricchio

Anthony Ricchio is an entrepreneur and sustainability influencer I connected with on Instagram and had some interesting chats on sustainability so I decided to invite him onto the podcast and have our sustainability discussion via video chat! The resulting chat ended up being an enlightening, open, and stimulating conversation on sustainability! Find Anthony Ricchio online: Anthony Ricchio on InstagramAnthony Ricchio […]

Capitalism Is Dependence

Capitalism Is Dependence

Capitalism Regardless of whether you think capitalism is a good economic system or not, there are certainly reasons to dislike capitalism. In the most fundamental form, it is a system based on the desire to maximize profit and hence greed, even at the expense of others. It incentivizes pollution, it widens the gap between the rich and the poor, and […]

The Arrogance of Man

The Arrogance of Man

We’ve become arrogant. We’ve come to a point where we believe we have conquered nature, and nature bends to our will. But we have not. Increasingly strong heatwaves, hurricanes, and wildfires are mother nature’s warnings: we are not above nature. And if we don’t fix the damage we’ve done, mother nature won’t allow us to live on this planet anymore. […]

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