Visit my sponsor: I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about Tru Earth Laundry Strips. This blog was founded thanks to one of my very first zero-waste lifestyle choices: cloth diapers. After nine years of consistent cloth diaper usage for four children, so many other ways to reduce waste have infiltrated my life. It’s […]
Öko-Teens: Cloth Pads for Teens and Pre-Teens
Warning. The following post contains a lengthy exposition about periods and how my relationship to my period has changed thanks to cloth pads. If all you want is a review of Öko-Teens pads, you can skip ahead, I won’t hold it against you! I still remember the moment I first learned that reusable cloth menstrual […]
My Favourite Zero-Waste Products from Öko Creations
I receive a small commission for purchases made using my coupon code. I went on an indefinite maternity leave from my role as social media manager at Öko Creations when I had the twins. Now that they’re toddlers and I have so much more spare time (ha ha), I’ve taken on the role once again. […]
Maintaining A Zero-Waste(ish) Lifestyle During a Global Pandemic
So this is a blog post I never imagined writing. Ever since last year’s climate strikes, more and more families interested in making zero-waste swaps for their households have been reaching out to me. Anything and everything I post about the zero-waste or waste-reduction strategies I employ has been getting more and more traction, and […]
Zero-Waste Gifts for 100% Success
I’ve been actively trying to reduce my at-home waste footprint for about eight years now. Efforts to bring waste-reducing changes to my former workplace were met with a lot of poorly camouflaged resentment, but I am now happy to observe from afar that this very same workplace has implemented the changes for which I advocated […]
Make the Easy Switch to Zero-Waste Coffee
Zero-waste living is not without compromise. If it were possible to avoid single-use items and over-packaged products and choose 100% reusable 100% of the time—all without spending extra time or money—well … a lot of the world’s current problems would be solved. But don’t be discouraged. The most sustainable changes are the easiest changes, and […]
Out of the Bottle and Into the Bar: Shampoo in a Bar is a Thing.
It’s been about eight years since I started re-evaluating the products I use in my bathroom. It all started with a concern about the ingredients in my body care products. I started reading ingredient labels and realized that I wanted to choose products with fewer synthetic ingredients; I wanted to use products that would be […]
Eat, Spray, Love: My Quest for a Pristine Posterior
A guest post by Maman Loup’s baby brother, Sean Gallimore This year has been a rollercoaster. Every day there seems to be a newer, crazier story and there seems to be a never-ending parade of upsetting events. We continually hear how we’ve never been more divided over issues such as immigration, gun control, race and […]
10 Ways to Reduce Plastic in Your Bathroom
One of the most single-use-plastic-ridden rooms in our homes is the bathroom. I realize that many forms of plastic packaging can be recycled. Alas, recycling is not the holy grail of waste reduction—it’s the least effective of the three Rs. In fact, I’d rewrite the 3 Rs if I could: Reduce, Reuse and Refuse. Many […]
Eco-Friendly Stocking Stuffers for Kids
Just like the dreaded birthday party loot bag, the Christmas stocking can be stuffed with a whole bunch of useless doodads that ultimately wind up in the trash. I get it: Christmas is expensive, and the dollar store is full of inexpensive fluff with which to stuff those Christmas stockings. But, ultimately, can we as […]
Why Compost Diapers?
Soiled Diaper Composting is a dad-run diaper composting service currently operating in Calgary. This article is by co-owner Mark Arishenkoff. Article updated April 23, 2021: Soiled Diaper Composting now has their composter and is actively composting disposable diapers in Calgary and Edmonton! Now that your baby has arrived, your heart is overflowing with love for […]
What’s In My Green Bathroom?
I’ve always been a bit of an eco-warrior. In elementary school I was the kid picking up beer cans full of slugs and rinsing them out in my driveway so I could bring them back for the deposit. In high school I became a vegetarian. As a high school teacher, I was known by my […]
Organiponic: Farm to Table Just Got a Whole Lot More Local
My husband and I have a dream of self-sufficiency. One day, we want to sit on our porch swing with our miniature donkey and gaze upon our vegetable patch, our grape vines, our apple orchard, our chicken coop and our barn full of rescued cats hanging out with our cows and think: “We never need […]
Reusable Alternatives to Wrapping Paper
Updated Dec. 2018 Wrapping paper. The epitome of our single-use, throwaway culture. It is designed to be immediately discarded. Unlike take-out cutlery, plates and cups or paper towels and disposable diapers—items that at least help us accomplish vital tasks—wrapping paper is just for show. But trust me, I know wrapping paper is joyful! It can […]
How Reusable Panty Liners Are Still Helping Me Save After 3 Years
Updated May 2019 I realize it’s kind of a bizarre milestone to be celebrating, but what can I say? I’m excited and proud to announce that it has been almost exactly three years since I banished disposable panty liners from my bathroom cupboard and switched to reusable panty liners. Because I am blessed with excessive […]
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