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Karen Madej
Mi Vecino is hiring; it wants everyone, especially first-time voters, in Florida to vote; and they need your help
Mi Vecino has a mission, and it's possible to feel their positive energy and determination in the Tweets and their website. The grassroots Florida nonprofit is registering and empowering black, brown, and other minorities. They have a goal for December 2021 of 1500 first-time voter registrants. Its main focus is first-time voters and giving people the tools to help themselves.
Opinion: society demands we take daily showers; why would we go without them?
In addition to washing my hands with antibacterial soap approximately fifty times a day (probably not that much in reality - but I do drink a lot of water), I shower or have a bath once a week, and my skin rewards me with perfect hydration. No dryness. A non-itchy, naturally oiled skin is why I choose not to shower every day.
Buy Nothing this Christmas, gift what you don't need, reduce clutter, and touch the brakes on climate change
Two friends Rebecca and Liesl started Buy Nothing when they realized the Pacific Northwest beach they were sitting on with their children was littered with plastic. All shapes, sizes, and color.
Why walk away from a life of instant hot or cold air, light at the touch of a button, and safe to drink running water?
A log cabin similar to the house in the story.Photo by Mary Winchester on Unsplash. The majority of Westerners live in urban settings, comfortable, secure, surrounded by neighbors. There's safety in numbers and economies of scale for local councils to provide water, energy, and refuse collections. Many other services exist in our communities. All we need to do is Google or visit them in person.
The Story of Solutions compares how we consume more of everything rather than choose better for us and the planet
The Story of Solutions presented by Annie Leonard takes us through the story of more. Firstly, the ability of humans to solve the problems of productivity. This started with the Industrial Revolution when Sir Richard Arkwright borrowed design ideas from others to create weaving machines. But that was later.
Swap SheIn cheap fast-fashion disposable clothing for ethical and sustainable slow-fashion brands
Ethical slow fashion companies like Patagonia and Pact Apparel have been planet-friendly for decades! The Good Trade lists 35 Fair Trade & Ethical Clothing Brands. Let's look at some of the reasons you might like to consider buying from them and other sustainable slow-fashion brands.
Sustainability is about noticing how much unnecessary stuff we consume and reducing it where we can
In a recent article, so many folks’ wrote negative comments about the title: The U.S. consumes the equivalent of five planets; for one U.S. resident, that’s about 17 U.S. football fields, caused me to wonder what made them so angry.
The U.S. consumes the equivalent of five planets; for one U.S. resident, that's about 17 U.S. football fields
Did you know the US consumes the equivalent of five planets?. The UK and EU consume around three to four planets worth of food and other products. The average Ecological Footprint for a U.S. resident (as of 2005 data) is 9.4 global hectares (23.5 acres), or about the size of 17 U.S. football fields. If everyone in the world lived like an American, it would take almost five planets to support humanity. Global Footprint Network.
Will you help Greta, Vanessa, Dominika, and Mitzi end all fossil fuel uses immediately and keep the 1.5°C goals alive?
People reject climate change because of money, and they believe that stripping a planet of ecosystems and habitats for profit has nothing to do with global warming. These are the very people who we have tasked with the actions. Greenwashing exists.
Would you spend $300 or $4000 on a temporary or permanent Airstream, earthbag, or hobbit house?
If you are thinking of building your own home, a good place to start is with a temporary place to live on site. Unless you are rich and paying professionals to build your mansion or a grand design, you will need a roof over your head.
What's America's reason for a shortage of delivery drivers?
Longhaul, truckload drivers benefitted from higher pay as a result of sky-rocketing online ordering in 2020. They stopped driving for weeks at a time and went to work for companies that paid them more. Some drivers were offered higher pay and local routes. Many drivers took advantage of extra pay and reduced their hours to spend more time with their families.
A young couple live debt-free in an off-grid house made from muddy straw using their hands and feet in Montana
Gerry Thomasen from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0 - Not the actual house featured in the story. About 14 years after seeing a cob house and ten years of researching and dreaming up designs for one, a young couple built their own straw bale cob house in Bitterroot Valley, Montana.
How can you save money while earning barely enough to live on?
According to a 2018 survey of 2,000 Americans by MidAmerica Nazarene University (MNU), men want to earn $445,000, and women desire $279,000 per year. We need to pause for a reality check here. The average middle-class salary checked in at $61,372. Boom! There goes that dream.
Affordable and natural alternatives to traditional, overpriced, and monopolized burial and cremation caskets do exist
Humans, in general, don't want to think about dying. We leave our funeral arrangements to the last minute or for our families and friends to deal with when we die. Some organized people, of course, plan way ahead. By acting sooner rather than later, we can even lock in a lower price.
Unlike throwaway fast fashion, Levi’s® makes their jeans to be worn and get better with age
Introduced during WW2, Levi’s® became more than the hardwearing materials needed to stand up to the wear and tear of good old-fashioned manual labor, on farms, and in factories. Movie stars like Marilyn Munro in River of No Return and The Misfits and James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause made 501’s famous and desirable to fans.
How hard can it be to keep six chickens and four roosters in a shed?
Me and my hen. Image Author’s Own. The day before the demonstration of how to get the chickens out of the shed and into their assigned cages, I happily accepted responsibility for ten chickens and their rickety shed. For a long weekend. My neighbor, Andy, a friendly chap who teaches pole dancing at his studio just off the High Street, had to visit his mum. Luckily, his four tiny dogs would go with him. Phew.
A woman lives in the woods and has no gas or electricity, no running water, and no internet
Photo by Joy Deb from Pexels - Not the actual house in the woods. This remarkable woman has cut herself off from everything we use every day without thinking. She has no gas or electricity, no running water, and no internet! Also, she’s not a big fan of furniture, so she has none.
Living with bad skin: rosacea flushes, red veins, and acne Dermatica prescription treatments may help
Like you, I’ve used all sorts of cleansers, washes, creams, lotions, and potions. They worked for decades, then one day in March, I woke up, and my face was red and angry and spotty! I hadn’t had zits since I was a teenager. My step mum would stand me against the kitchen door and ease my blackheads out with a tissue wrapped around her talon-like nails. But I never had spots.
Who's willing to stop eating beef and turkeys and using fossil fuels to save the planet?
We probably won’t meet the target of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees C without a change in what we consume. It’s even less likely we’ll reach the 1.5C target because we don’t want to change our diets. We have enjoyed delicacies from all over the world for decades, and why should we worry about the droughts, floods, freezes, tornadoes, and hurricanes? Nothing to do with us. We have no control over those conglomerates who buy up every mom and pop business when ripe for the picking.
Was Member of Parliament Dawn Butler right about Prime Minister Boris Johnson ‘lying’?
Dawn Butler was removed from Parliament chambers for 24 hours because she called Boris Johnson a liar and refused to retract her accusation. She could also have avoided her removal if she’d reflected on her words and withdrawn them as warned by the temporary deputy speaker, Ms. Cummins.
Karen Madej
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Passionate about climate change and living a debt-free, sustainable life. Determined to learn how to and build an adobe house or Earthship. The goal is to live off-grid and off the land. Energy for heat and to power electrical devices and appliances will use solar, wind, and hydro-powered electricity. No trees will die to make my home.
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