Category Archives: Eco-Sustainability
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We’re Going on a Plastic Diet
Posted on January 22, 2012 by Dona in Eco-SustainabilityUnless you’ve been living under a rock, chances are you have a pretty good idea that plastics are destroying our environment. Whales ingest plastic bags thinking its food, birds getting tangled up in it, dolphins suffocate when it gets caught over their blowholes. We’ve managed to create a giant floating island (or maybe it’s more [...]
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How To Encapsulate a Placenta
Posted on October 16, 2011 by Dona in Eco-Sustainability, Tummy TalkI know this is a post that people have been curious about, so here it is. I wrote a few weeks ago about our plan to eat the placenta after Kaiya’s birth. It was much less labor intensive than I had expected and with a little help from my mom, we had the placenta cleaned, [...]
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Simple Choices Can Save 200,000 Sharks
Posted on May 1, 2011 by Dona in Eco-SustainabilityI don’t usually re-post blogs from other websites, but this one by Tim Ferris (you know, the 4 Hour Work Week Guy?), is important for everyone to read. I’m a big advocate of knowing where our food comes from, be it the eggs that we fry up with toast for breakfast, the milk that we [...]
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CBC News Interview: Living Without a Fridge
Posted on June 19, 2010 by Dona in Eco-SustainabilityWe’ve taken Charlottetown by storm! Last week we were interviewed by local reporter, Steve Bruce, about our lives without a fridge. This story has sparked quite a debate online, which you can check out here. Enjoy!
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How To: Make Dish Soap
Posted on June 15, 2010 by Dona in Eco-SustainabilityLike many products that fill the store shelves, dish soap is full of chemicals that are detrimental to our health. I pulled the list of ingredients off of Palmolive Dish Soap out of curiosity, here’s what I found. Not only does Palmolive have 12 ingredients, most of which I can’t pronounce, but it also has [...]
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Tips for Living Barefoot
Posted on June 15, 2010 by Dona in Eco-SustainabilityIn April I posted about the benefits of barefoot running and began incorporating barefoot and minimalist shoe running into my routine. After pushing through some setbacks, I’ve built up enough strength In my legs and feet that I can now comfortably manage about 15 miles a week without shoes. I’ve enjoyed the feeling of the [...]
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The Controversy of Hemp
Posted on June 14, 2010 by Dona in Eco-SustainabilitySunday evening was winding down and after a hectic weekend, all I wanted to do was lie on the couch and not move. I had been scrolling through Project Free TV looking for a documentary to watch and for some reason or another, felt compelled to click on the link, “Run from the Cure: The [...]
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Living without a Fridge, Month 5
Posted on May 26, 2010 by Dona in Eco-SustainabilityLong gone are the days of perfectly chilled food. As you know, we unplugged our refrigerator in January in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint and for the challenge of doing something slightly radical. It’s been 5 months now and while its been rough going at times (think frozen milk in February and stinky [...]
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Running Barefoot…Too Much too soon.
Posted on May 20, 2010 by Dona in Eco-SustainabilityI’ve leapt full force into barefoot running over the past two weeks, and my enthusiasm has left me with aching muscles and sore feet, but addicted to a new kind of running. Just down the street from my house is a multi-use public park that is frequented by joggers, pick-up soccer games, and intense games [...]
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How To: Making Your Own Drain Declogger
Posted on May 19, 2010 by Dona in Eco-SustainabilityI’m sure I don’t have to convince you that things like bleach and Draino are bad, not only for us, but for the water systems they contaminate. But even if we know something’s bad, there’s the convience factor and all that damn marketing that have made these products staples in our homes. But it doesn’t [...]
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