Monthly Archives: June 2009

Day 365: The End!

Can you believe it has been a whole year!  I have all kinds of things on my mind for the last day of our buy-nothing-zero-waste year, but I only have an hour on my lunch break, so I’ll make it … Continue reading

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Day 362: Simple Savvy

Christine over at Simple Savvy got married last week (Congrats Christine!), so she graciously let me take over her blog for a day while she was tied up with the festivities. If you don’t read the Simple Savvy blog, well, … Continue reading

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Day 361: Clean Bin in the Globe and Mail

With only 4 days left in our project (and at the risk of upstaging our final weigh in on Wednesday) the Clean Bin Project was in an article in the Globe and Mail today! A national publication like this definitely … Continue reading

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359: Day Waste Watch Wednesday – Food Inc

I think a lot about food.  Well, food and food packaging, but they’re somewhat inseparable aren’t they?  I’ve commented to many people that this year of watching our waste output has translated to a strange and unforeseeable obsession with food. … Continue reading

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Day 357: DIY Reuse Crafts

I have a backlog of topics I’ve been meaning to post about, and this is one of them: reuse craftsters. The first example is do it yourself plastic bag bags. Lyanda of The Tangled Nest sent me this story (and … Continue reading

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Day 354: New Look, Same Less Waste

Get “same less waste” . . . . like “same great taste”? . . . . You may have noticed that we have a bit of a new look around here.  It’s all thanks to Hop Studios, web designers extraordinaire, … Continue reading

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