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  • Week 30: Connect to your Community⠀ ⠀ So far, most of our weekly topics have covered ways to become more personally or individually resilient. But what about community resilience? What might it look like to become more environmentally friendly as a city or neighbourhood? Over the last few years I’ve had the pleasure of connecting to my community through my local neighbourhood group as well as the Transition Movement initiative in Guelph (Transition Guelph). The experience was been so wonderful that I feel the need to share some of the benefits that we have felt as a family: https://www.52togreen.com/connect-to-your-community/⠀ ⠀ Sign up at 52togreen.com (link in bio) to get started on your path to becoming more environmentally conscious and eco-friendly.⠀ ⠀ #52togreen #52towaystobegreen #community #transitionguelph #connections #localresiliency #local
  • Fix and fix and fix and fix. I was going to finally retire these jeans to scrap when @marleegrace reminded me in a recent post how rewarding it can be to reclaim the life of your favourite jeans. #52togreen #52waystobegreen #zerowasteirl #lowwaste #mending #diy #fixit #reuse #sewing #sewingmachine #handstitch #handsewn #handmended #makeemlast #lesswaste
  • Week 29: Ride a Bike⠀ ⠀ Some people are natural bike-riders. They learned when they were young children and never looked back, riding all the way through high school and/or college and into their adult lives. And there are those of us who are not natural bike-riders. We stopped riding bikes as we hit teenaged years. To be fair, I gave it a good try when I was in university but my overall health wasn’t the greatest and it never stuck. It wasn’t until I made the decision to learn to ride my bike again for health and environmental reasons that I actually fell in love with active transportation. https://www.52togreen.com/ride-a-bike/⠀ ⠀ Sign up at 52togreen.com (link in bio) to get started on your path to becoming more environmentally conscious and eco-friendly.⠀ ⠀ #52togreen #52towaystobegreen #rideabike #bicycle #activetransportation #rideyourbike
  • All the jars! Glass jars seem to be the poster child of the zero waste movement, and with good reason. You can use these babies for almost anything and if you shop strategically, you never need to spend a penny on them. My go to items for jar saving are pickles, tomato sauce, salsa (especially Neil Brothers!!), and homemade jam from the farmer's market. What jars do you love to reuse? #52togreen #52waystobegreen #masonjars #zerowaste #lowwaste #reuse #recycle #saveyourjars #glassjars #lowimpact #lowimpactliving #zerowasteirl #pantrygoals #jargoals #allthejars
  • Week 28: Choose Sustainable Businesses⠀ ⠀ Spending dollars is like voting for the kind of world that you want to live in. Every time you give your money to a business, you’re telling that business that you like their products and that they should create more products like the one you’re buying. It’s important to make sure that you’re voting for the right products and the right businesses as often as possible. https://www.52togreen.com/choose-sustainable-businesses/⠀ ⠀ Sign up at 52togreen.com (link in bio) to get started on your path to becoming more environmentally conscious and eco-friendly.⠀ ⠀ #52togreen #52towaystobegreen #bcorp #sustainable #spendwisely
  • Sometimes you go to grab a coffee in a mug at the coffee shop but your two year old has a serious screaming meltdown because his banana bread fell apart which is most likely because he's going through a regression and isn't sleeping (which means you aren't sleeping either) and all you want is a goddamn cup of coffee so you get it in a to go cup that you know can't be recycled or composted and feel horrible about it and then remember all the amazingness you do everyday and forgive yourself and your two year old and have snuggles to feel better. And coffee. #52togreen #52waystobegreen #zerowaste #zerowasteirl #lowwaste #fuckinggarbadge #sleepregression #toddlermeltdown #allthecoffee #itsactuallydecaf
  • Week 27: Learn to Can Food⠀ ⠀ Now that you’ve got your backyard garden planned, the next thing you’ll definitely want to take up is canning. Canning food is a great way of preserving fresh food to last year round (or even many years). Once you get the basics down, it’s fairly simple. It’s a great way to eat sustainably even when fresh food isn’t in season. http://www.52togreen.com/learn-to-can-food/⠀ ⠀ Sign up at 52togreen.com (link in bio) to get started on your path to becoming more environmentally conscious and eco-friendly.⠀ ⠀ #52togreen #52towaystobegreen #canning #preserving #diy #food #growyourown
  • This little guy is deep into independent play these days, especially after breakfast. He's started exploring Lego which I'm way into. I've been doing a lot of thinking about education and kids these days. My older guy is unhappy at school so we are exploring alternatives (with some reluctance from other family members) like homeschooling and unschooling. I recently read "Free to Learn" by Peter Gray and I'm quickly falling in love with the idea of Democratic Schools and the Sudbury system. I wish there was an option for us locally but all private school systems are too expensive for us to afford. It makes me sad to think that my child spends the bulk of his time in an environment where he feels bored and trapped. I think it speaks to a broken public education system and I'm hoping that we can find another option for him before the school year is out. Fingers crossed. #unschooling #homeschooling #play #learn #lego #independence #trustyourkids #sudburyschools #education #kids #letthemlearn #alternativeeducation #independentlearning
  • Week 26: Share Tools⠀ ⠀ The art of sharing resources such as tools can be tricky to navigate. Lucky for you, others have done a lot of the heavy lifting! http://www.52togreen.com/share-tools/⠀ ⠀ Sign up at 52togreen.com (link in bio) to get started on your path to becoming more environmentally conscious and eco-friendly.⠀ ⠀ #52togreen #52towaystobegreen #lendingisthenewspending #sharingiscaring #toollibrary #share

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