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    December 2018

    Holidays Without Plastic

    December 2, 2020 /

    Holidays Without Plastic By Lisa Catterall If the year 2020 has taught me one thing, it’s to be less judgmental. We’ve all been through loss and fear and seen our friends and family handle it in so many different ways. It’s a year to grow and a year to try new things. My family is enjoying using the extra time at home to start our preparations for the holidays early. I love the traditions of the season. I am from Minnesota and we always hunkered down in the freezing weather and made a very busy Christmas. My grandmother had lived through the Great Depression and it meant so much to…

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    February 2020

    Avoiding Plastic Bags: Green Tip February 2020

    February 1, 2020 /

    Avoiding Plastic Bags Green Tip February 2020 By Meredith Keet Americans throw away 100 billion plastic bags annually.  That’s 307 bags per person per year!  Recycling for these bags was estimated to be around a measly 1%.  With plastic bag bans becoming more prevalent, you may be finding it easier to avoid them, but for most of us there may be places where we are finding them hard to avoid.  Here are a few suggestions that may help you skip the bag then next time around:  Trash Bags: Composting is key! Once you eliminate all that yucky food waste from your trash you’re left with very little (if anything) that…

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    February 2020

    One Tree at a Time: Green Family Living February 2020

    February 1, 2020 /

    One Tree at a Time Kids Who Plant Together Save the Planet Together Green Family Living: February 2020 By John Louis Koenig It was more than just a day in the park on a Wednesday for hard working kids from Santa Cruz Waldorf School, as 5th graders helped to plant 25 trees, oaks and maples, as part of Waldorf’s goal of planting 100 trees this school year.  “The kids had a blast,” said Leslie Keedy, said City of Santa Cruz Urban Forester and supervisor of the day’s tree planting at University Terrace Park near UCSC.  Keedy has been demonstrating to young and old how to plant trees as volunteers help…

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    January 2020

    Make 2020 a Year of Less Waste: Green Living January 2020

    January 1, 2020 /

    Make 2020 a Year of Less Waste Green Living: January 2020 By Meredith Keet Happy New Year!  Who has resolved to use less plastic and generate less waste in 2020??!!  We have! Here are some tips to start you off on your way towards changing your impact on the planet this year: 1) Eat less meat and dairy, even if just a little.  This may be one of the most impactful things you can do. 2) Skip the air travel and adventure locally. 3) Try a waste challenge:  choose a time period to collect your trash and then evaluate what trash you’ve created.  How could you produce less the next…

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    January 2020

    Calling All Ideas: Green Living January 2020

    January 1, 2020 /

    Calling All Ideas Waste-Free 2020 Green Living: January 2020 By Lisa Catterall Periodically our faculty comes together to review our school’s mission statement and our three pillars of Academic Excellence, Positive Character Development, and Creative Self Expression. Often during our discussions, the idea of “environmental stewardship” as a fourth pillar arises. Whether it is a pillar of our school, a curriculum program crossing all ages, or a shared value infused throughout the community, it is something we strive to model for our students and children. While reducing plastic waste is a very common goal in our homes and at our school, many of us deeply value the ability to bring…

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    October 2019

    Green Family Living: October 2019

    October 1, 2019 /

    Green Family Living October 2019 By Linnaea Avenell An important facet of green living is changing our mindset, not just for us as adults, but for our children starting out in the world.  That is, teaching children to respect our natural world and to want to take action to preserve it. At my farm camp, Little Garden Patch, we approach green living from many fronts:  boosting imagination and creative thinking, learning social skills to help them work better with others, Linnaea Avenelli’s Garden Patch program gets kids away from their digital toys and into sharing the joys of nature. She suggests parents get their kids into some gardening to help…

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    September 2019

    Put an End to Wish-Cycling: Green Tips September 2019

    September 1, 2019 /

    Put an End to Wish-Cycling Green Tips: September 2019 By Meredith Keet of The Zero Shop Wish-cycling is a term used to describe the action of tossing those questionably recyclable items into the blue recycling bin in hope that they can be recycled. We’ve all had that moment when you’re holding some plastic object, maybe a child’s broken plastic toy or the twisty thing that seals the lid on your milk jug, and you wonder if it’s recyclable. You’re not sure, so you throw it into the recycling bin anyways and “wish” for it to be recycled. With a 9.1% recycling rate in 2015 that is expected to be dropping precipitously…

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    August 2019

    Is it Trash or Treasure? City of Santa Cruz Offers Free Tours of Recycling Center

    August 1, 2019 /

    Is it Trash or Treasure? City of Santa Cruz Offers Free Tours of Recycling Center By Karen Kefauver Did you know Santa Cruzans place 30 to 50 tons of material in their blue recycle bins every day? It’s a staggering amount. I strive to recycle as much as possible to help our beautiful city and to reduce my impact on the planet. However, after 25 years living in Santa Cruz and being a devoted recycling nut, I had grown complacent, thinking I pretty much knew it all. Recently, I learned from a local expert that I can do a better job at recycling. Last month, I fulfilled a long-held goal…

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    July 2019

    Join Plastic Free July: Green Living July 2019

    July 1, 2019 /

    Join Plastic Free July: Green Living July 2019 By Meredith Keet of The Zero Shop Join the millions of individuals and families worldwide in cutting your plastic use for Plastic Free July!  This campaign, started by the non-profit, Plastic Free Foundation, has become a global movement that is both decreasing plastic use as well as increasing awareness around plastic pollution.  What can you do?  Challenge yourself, your family, friends and coworkers to use as little plastic as possible for the month of July.   Get started by taking a look at where most of your plastic use come from, then brainstorm ways you might be able to avoid producing that waste. …

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    June 2019

    Try a Trash Challenge: Green Living June 2019

    June 1, 2019 /

    Try a Trash Challenge: Green Living June 2019 By Meredith Keet of The Zero Shop We first discovered the Zero Waste movement about 6 years ago when we heard about Bea Johnson and her family of four producing only a mason jar of trash over the course of a year.  Our minds were blown!  How in the world did they accomplish that? We began to puzzle over every aspect of our lives and what changes we could make to lessen our trash. We started with a week-long challenge to see how little trash we could produce.  We found a jar (ahem, a large one!) and kept it on our kitchen…

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