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So in a previous blog, I talked about how many trees it takes to wipe a bum in a lifetime (well, really all parts) which turns out to be 384. Three hundred eighty-four trees to wipe our bottoms over a lifetime. So here’s how this plays out. Trees grow, and then we cut them down (even from ‘protected’ sources such as national parks – there’s a real travesty), then we mill them, make paper, and then literally flush those trees down the toilet. Now, when trees were so abundant, it wasn’t such a big deal. But now, because as a...

Baby steps. I think we have become accustomed to think that everything we do to make change has to be huge or on a grand scale. I think we have forgotten that small, methodical, consistent action creates huge impact, especially when used by many people, a whole neighborhood, or country.  If you wanted to lose weight, you would unintentionally sabotage yourself if you started to change a bunch of things at once. So imagine if you started eating raw and vegetarian, severely cut back on carbs, cut out all the junk food you eat, started running 5 times a week...

When more and more people opt to not have plastic straws for their drinks, we tell the restaurants we frequent and the companies we buy from that we don’t want them, which sends a message and leads to change.

Now please, don’t misunderstand me. There are legitimate needs for straws. 

I’m not what I used to be. None of us are, right? Well, the truth is that as we age, we do change and of course that is to be expected. One unexpected way in which I have found a significant change is travel fatigue.  In my 20s and 30s I would not have known a smidgen of what that felt like. My brother and my son are the types of people such that when they get in a car or on a train, they fall asleep. And it doesn’t take an hour. I mean, like 10-20 minutes. I could...