I have been thinking about being a conscious consumer. It’s not easy, not when our consumption habits have been made so effortless. Companies and brands want us to buy their products, and they have made it as easy and mindless…
How to Switch to Cruelty-Free Personal Care Products
Let’s focus on looking at how we can reduce causing harm to animals, namely by talking about using cruelty free personal care products. All of us, each and every one of us, is complicit in some way or the other…
Simple Guide to Meal Planning for a Zero Waste Kitchen
Let’s learn some skillful meal planning for a zero waste kitchen. Now that we’ve covered switching to glass and cloth, composting organic material, and segregating waste, let’s attack the primary source of kitchen waste: the food! Everyone loves food. It’s…
Waste Segregation in your Zero Waste Kitchen
This is Week 4, and this week we look at how to waste segregation according to type – so we can either recycle, or dispose of them responsibly. How I’d arranged this Zero Waste Kitchen series is that we first…
The Role of Composting in a Zero Waste Kitchen
Eliminating waste materials from our homes is not easy, so cut yourself some slack. Just stay focused on the goal, and remind yourself why you’re doing this, why you’re obsessing over kitchen composting of all things. This week, we look…