How to Make Lunch Packing Easy: 5 Tips for Back to School
These five simple steps can help make lunch packing easy, especially as we head back to school. Involving kids, planning meals, and sourcing durable lunch supplies are the most effective tools for eating healthy, saving time and saving money—with ease! 1. Let kids choose their favorite foods It always helps encourage kids to eat healthy…Read the full article
5 Tips for Zero-Waste Living this Earth Day
Zero-waste living is more than just tossing something into the recycling bin with all the best intentions and crossing our fingers that the item will get recycled into something useful. It is about making a commitment to reduce waste in all aspects of our lives. But we also like to think of zero-waste living as…Read the full article
Straws are the Gateway Plastic: These Three Products Might be Next
Plastic Straw Bans Take the Lead. What’s Next? The ubiquitous and often unnecessary plastic straw has been seen as a symbol and a gateway plastic—helping to jumpstart changing behavior to reduce other single-use items. As awareness grows about plastic straws, staggering facts and images about plastic pollution hit front-page news (see the CBS 60 Minutes special),…Read the full article
Responsible Goods for Back to School: The Best Picks and Tips
Gearing up to go back to school can be stressful if you’re trying to tread lightly on the planet. Conventional school supplies, disposable sandwich baggies and packaged food wrappers usually head straight to landfill and stay there forever, breaking down into small pieces that pollute the environment. Cheap, single-use plastic products for young students also…Read the full article
Lunch Makeover Recipe #2: Vegetable Spring Rolls
Together with Thrive Market, we’re bringing you wrap recipe #2 of our lunch makeover series: Vegetable Spring Rolls. Don’t forget to cut back on plastic waste by packing your wraps in eco-friendly reusable containers, totes and insulated food jars. Vegetable Spring Rolls Yield: 1 roll Time: 5 minutes Ingredients 1 piece rice paper ½ cup…Read the full article
Lunch Makeover Recipe #1: Sesame Salmon Salad Rolls
Together with Thrive Market, we’re bringing you a week’s worth of healthy, tasty recipes to makeover your lunch. And you can cut back on plastic waste by packing your wraps in eco-friendly reusable containers, totes and insulated food jars. Sesame Salmon Salad Rolls Yield: 2 rolls Active Time: 20 minutes Total Time: 30 minutes Ingredients…Read the full article
Road Trip Essentials: What to Pack When Traveling with Kids
Everyone looks forward to summer vacation: school is out, work slows down and it’s the best time to plan a few trips with your family. Whether they are short trips for a weekend away, or a long flight across the country, traveling with kids is a challenge, so here are some tips to help you prepare…Read the full article
Traveling Zero Waste – Tips from the Freid
Below is a guest blog post from Alex Freid at PLAN, who just wrapped up the Patagonia Worn Wear College Tour, and his attempt to travel zero waste for 14 weeks and 15,000 miles across the US, visiting 21 college campuses that are leaders in the Campus Zero Waste Movement. Impressive! Traveling Zero Waste: Successes and Failures We’ve…Read the full article
The Turning Green Waste-Free Starter Kit
Our New Waste-Free Starter Kit New this month, we’re teaming up with our partner, Turning Green, to offer our first waste-free starter kit with four of our most popular reusable essentials. When transitioning to a zero-waste lifestyle, preparation is half the battle. Most people see the benefit and have the motivation to change habits, but they just don’t know where…Read the full article
Reuse and Repair: Worn Wear College Tour
Reuse and Repair on the Road As a mission-driven company our decisions are guided by our desire to offer products that will help change our throw-away culture. We get our inspiration from companies we admire, including the outdoor retailer Patagonia. This month, they are teaming up with our partner, PLAN (Post-Landfill Action Network), to lead an…Read the full article