Hey friends! I hope things are warming up by you, last weekend we got hit by the worst snowstorm. I haven’t filled you all in on what’s been going on around here so here’s our life currently.
10 Ways to cut plastic that you didn’t think about before
A part of my minimalist journey has been focusing on going a step further in reducing my plastic consumption. I have been actively reducing my usage of plastic bags, single-use water bottles, and other plastics since I was in high school, but I wanted to take it a step further. We use way too much plastic and we use it without even thinking twice about it all. It’s just become second nature to just buy plastic products and take without thinking. So because I have been working to reduce plastic in my life, I decided that I wanted to take it to the next level by thinking about those items that we don’t often consider swapping out. Below you’ll find those items that I have now cut from my life that typically have always been plastic. Basically, I want this earth to be more beautiful for my children than it was when I was a child. Realistically, that will not be the case but I can do everything in my power to make it happen. At this point, there’s more plastic in the sea than fish which is heartbreaking and it’s not going to go away unless we physically remove it because as we all know, plastic doesn’t biodegrade. Okay, it does but not in your or your child’s or your grandchild’s lifetime. So here are the things I’m avoiding or changing to reduce my plastic consumption.
How I’m Minimizing My Life
We live in a decent sized apartment in Philadelphia, we have two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a balcony. I actually love our home but it has never felt light or like a relief when I come home to work. Yes I’m so happy to be home and I can get away from all the work crazy but I come home to clutter and a mess. I feel like something is always messy and disorganized. If it’s not the kitchen then it’s the bedroom or the office and there’s only two of us! It’s horrible so I decided to work on changing our home to make it clean, light, and relaxing. If you know me, you would know that I would be the last person in the world to be working on this project so keep reading to learn how I’ve tackled it and if you’re anything like me, how you can too!
Menstrual Hygiene Management & Student Absenteeism in Rwanda
While there has been great success and strides made in human rights, particularly for women, the glass ceiling is nowhere close to being shattered. The lack of ability and support for women and young girls in managing their menstrual health is holding them back from achieving economic empowerment and independence, especially in developing states. The stigma associated with menstruation, despite it being a very natural and healthy function exacerbate the issues around menstrual hygiene management. When there’s a lack of awareness compounded by the lack of affordability and access to resources, girls either miss weeks of schooling or they drop out entirely. A woman’s ability to complete her education is a large factor in her ability to have economic empowerment and have power within her family and community. These also help her to move her family out of a crisis economic situation and towards more resilient sources of income. While analyzing the plethora of challenges women and girls face in their schools and communities, realistic programming and policy can be implemented to create a better society for women and measurable change.
How Fast Fashion is Destroying the World and How YOU Can Stop It
Despite being in the age where we are all connected through social media and information is available at the touch of our fingertips, we are more disconnected than ever before. As a nation we are spending increasingly more time in front of screens watching television marathons, looking through endless pages of photos of ourselves, and videos of our newest clothing haul. With ads constantly being fed to us, as a society, we have moved to a life of single use purchases and constant consumption. One of the biggest growing industries and the one that creates incomparable waste is the clothing industry. Quickly, the clothing industry has turned into a hidden environmental crisis and even a human rights concern. Little has been done to control the waste in this sector, and the few attempts at solutions have turned into problems themselves. Breaking down the crisis to its’ causes and resulting complications will allow for new recommendations and actions to be taken by individuals, and companies.
Fair Never Tasted So Good: A Guide to Ethical Chocolate
The last time Conor and I had friends over, they were a little horrified that we didn’t stock “real” food in our cupboards. In reality, we eat mostly organic and locally sourced food and very rarely have snacks in the pantry other than a bag of popcorn or granola. On occasion I’ll buy “bunny snacks, ” but recently I’ve been buying a few bars of chocolate to have on hand if one of us get a sweet tooth. More often than not the regular chocolate wasn’t getting eaten, so I decided to look for some new flavors, ethically sourced chocolate and fair trade options. We decided to switch to ethically made chocolate because of the hidden horrors of the industry, which include and are certainly no limited to child labor, poor wages and working conditions and slavery.
If you’re new to ethically made chocolate, here are a few things that you want to look for.
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