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Pantry status. A little empty and shuffled from daily life. I like a clean and organized home - everything has a purpose and place. I love the beauty of organization, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t get messy. And when it comes to trash, not every last thing I buy comes from a bulk store or a farmer’s market either. My allergies and my husband’s preferences bring trash into our home here and there (we only have one large glass jar that accumulates our landfill materials for the entire home - trash goes out once or twice a year). I think what we have to come to terms with - with anything we take on or do is the fact that is there is no perfect. No one can do it all, there are natural contradictions, and there are spots where it will take time to shift. We inherently live in world that isn’t perfect and a current global infrastructure that is off balance and designed intentionally to be wasteful and to be inaccessible. While we have a lot of work ahead of us to reshape our world, we can still be attentive, make changes where possible, and be a kind voice to others. It looks differently for everyone, don’t compare yourself to others and don’t let others tell you you’re not doing enough either. The root of this movement is this: build better and more responsible, tolerant, kind, open conversation and relationships between yourself and the world around you. •
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#organization #homestyling #eco #plantbased #gogreen #zerowaste #mindfulness #veganlifestyle #compassion #refuse #reuse #slowfood #inspiration #biomindful #zerowastehome

Stopped at @isabellefarmorganic to get a few things for the week. We don’t always buy a ton of produce. I’ll scope out the week ahead (I don’t meal plan or use recipes) and put together an idea of what I’ll make and generally what I’ll need. Versatile foods for salads, soups, sautés, and bowls are normally on our plates. We have a few things from last week like cucumbers, sweet potatoes, cauliflower and some dry goods like dried beans, rice, and pasta! I also made a big thing of peanut butter too! What’s on your menu this week? How do you get resourceful and thrifty in the kitchen? ⤵️ share below 🌈💙
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I could hold all the conversations around zero waste and other environmental issues with myself and others, but it would all mean absolutely nothing if I didn’t have a relationship with nature or understand WHY I was doing it in the first place. The biosphere doesn’t design waste, we do. The petals of this flower will eventually shrivel and die and fall back to the earth. The pieces of this flower are not designed to stay on the ground for years or centuries polluting the surrounding soil, water or entangling animals in its wake. The flowers are designed by nature to return back - nutrients reabsorbed into the soil, food for other animals or insects, circular again and again. This is a relationship that our modern world has more or less forgotten. We would be surprised how much we can learn from pausing, quieting, listening, and paying attention to our natural surroundings and to ourselves and others. Relationship building isn’t easy, but it’s necessary.
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Photography by me! Olympus Pen-F macro-lens
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You can’t be 100% zero waste. That’s impossible. We can though in many ways make less trash. If we understand the infrastructure we live in now (linear), how things are designed, made, and the lack of recovery globally, we would see that we have a lot to relearn, attitudes to shift, and conversations to grow - and a global infrastructure to reshape. But as I mentioned in my last post, it’s all about doing something and holding good intention that we can get to where we need to be. We can rethink our relationships to materials, to consumption, to our food, and our communities. When it comes to reducing our single-use waste, especially now, there’s loads of different reusable cups, bags, water bottles, reusable straws, bamboo toothbrushes, and everything in between that wasn’t available on a larger scale 10 years ago. It’s good that there are now more options and companies are rethinking (hopefully with good intention) how we use things and make reusables accessible (though not really when we think how much more these things often cost compared to just reusing an old pickle jar). I’m not here to tell you what reusables to buy (I’m never sponsored by brands or offer ads), but I will tell you to use what you have first. Head to a thrift store, reuse something, be thrifty, resourceful, and if you really want to buy new (and it’s ok!), really think about how you’ll use it. In the end, it’s not about the stuff it’s about our relationships to the things we use, the food we eat, the people and communities that create and make, and the planet that supports us. Be an under-consumer. Be a purposeful consumer. •
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