A long time coming.

I have long been passionate about the environment. I thought about starting a blog years ago – but the time is finally right to begin. I will post my thoughts, recommendations, ideas, and information for those that feel as passionately as I do about the earth.

A bit about me

I am a public relations professional and have been in the business for many decades.  I feel a strong sense of connection to nature and animals and feel we need to be much better stewards of what we have been given on earth.

Have a question? Feel free to send it to me. I will do my best to get it answered. Have a suggestion? Bring it on! We are a community of compassionate earth inhabitants trying to live our best life and take care of our planet. Here’s a starter post.

Napkins, Paper towels and Compost

I hate to throw things out. I find new homes, repurpose, rehome, regift and recycle (if all others fail). I don’t use paper towels – and have not for at least 7 years.

What do you think I do?

I use dish towels and wash as needed. It’s not hard. We just are so conditioned to use paper towels we don’t even think of the other options. And likewise – I don’t use paper napkins – I use cloth. I think probably if I had babies now I would use cloth diapers (though I know it would be tough). Back when my kids were in diapers I did not. Things change. People evolve.

And finally, compost is not gross.

I compost everything I can. You can too!

At home, we have an undercounter pull out trash bin in 2 parts: one part for trash – the other for compost. My husband takes out the compost regularly and adds it to the compost bin near our garbage. When its full – he empties it and spreads it around on our shrubs and trees. They are growing like crazy!

However if you want to start small -- you can start with a small countertop compost bin like this one -

The idea is to collect scraps of fruit, vegetables and breads/grains daily and regularly dump it into a larger outdoors composter like this if you have the space.

So what's compost? Here's a quick guide on what it is and isn't. In a nutshell (nuts are compostable!) you take food scraps while you are cooking, grabbing a piece of fruit, cracking an egg, and throw them in your countertop bin for composting. The countertop composter is basically a holding zone for when you place it in the larger bin outside. The larger bin outside gets rotated so it composts faster. Composting is the breaking down of organic material - essentially back into soil!

Learn more here: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/composting-101.