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It’s Back to School Lunch Time!  Please Ditch the Ziplocs.

It’s that time again!  Back to school!  Which means, of course, back-to-school lunches and snacks.  It’s important to me to send the kids to school with a healthy lunch, and it’s equally important to me that their lunches and snacks don’t create any waste.  Every time I go to pick up my kids after school, I see an errant Ziploc bag making its way…

Five Simple Ways We Can Stop Using Single-Use Plastics That Will Make Mother Earth Happy and Our Homes Healthier

There seems to be a consensus among many that Mother Earth is using 2020 to put us in a global time-out.  To think about our actions and how we’ve been (mis)treating her.  Between the quarantine and the smoke-laden air from the fires here in California, many of us haven’t been leaving our homes much at all lately.  This has been mentally and…