Shorelight - Green Committee

See baby swing! See baby swing and eat a raspberry. I'm not a very good - grow and consume my own food person, though I like to grow things. We have accidentally been wildly successful with everbearing raspberries under our deck and everyone, including the dog who now knows how to pick his own, enjoys raspberries from July through the frost....

One of my loves in life is our native garden right outside our front door. My husband thinks it looks messy and he's not wrong, but it's fun to watch the bumblebees and other pollinators. We are on the monarch migration path and we have caterpillars during the summer and they fly over our house in the fall on their way south. I'm sure there are...

First and most obviously way I've removed destructive forest products is to buy local. I am intental about shopping at my own local grocery store that has a focus on localized, organic and clean-ingredient products. This not only ensures my grocery purchases aren't negatively affecting the rainforests, but also puts money back into my community. 

On Sunday I walked in a conservation land I'd never visited before, just 18 minutes from my house. The trail was beautiful and filled with glacial rock formations you could climb up. A sign told us on the way back that this area had been one of the 1st settlements around here and was founded by a few family's from Chelmsford. The settlement...

I almost didn't give myself credit yesterday for work-life balance, because I didn't work. But I didn't work. So that counts for something, right?

Its noon and I'm going to go have lunch not at my computer! It makes the time I spend at work more productive and more positive. It makes coming back to work and dedicating myself every day easier and a generally better experience. My kids ensure I step away outside of their daycare hours or I can see how it would be easy to just get one more...

I'm ignoring this question, because I don't like it. But what I do want to reflect on is the affordability of "sustainable fashion." It's soooo hard for me to spend money on things that are probably (maybe) more sustainable. Like my kids' clothes that they're going to grow out of in five seconds. It's so expensive!  I've been trying...

I think that equality for trans, femme, and non binary folks is important to a just and sustainable society because it builds humility, compassion, understanding and acceptance towards all of humanity. To have a sustainable society, it requires human beings moving and living through the world in a peaceful way. Every person is an important part...

I don't know!! Ha. Please tell me. Conscious spending. Not taking items just because they're free. haha. I'm working on rolling out the things my kids are outgrowing, which is what makes this task both easy and a good choice for me. But I have years of "unburying" of stuff to accomplish as I work towards better streamlining our home.

This has been the weirdest thing since moving here, but apparently yes and apparently it's "normal." In the older parts of Kansas City, the infrastructure results in sewage flooding back into homes when we experience heavy rain and flooding - which we do, every single spring. I had one former coworker released from her lease and move...