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Holiday Giveaway: My Favorite Airtight Stainless Steel Kitchen Container

(Note: Life Without Plastic is offering a New Year’s discount code. Read to the bottom of this post to find the code and enter the drawing.)

Three years ago, when Jay and Chantal from the online store Life Without Plastic sent me a sample of their new HUGE rectangular airtight stainless steel freezer container to review on this blog, I couldn’t think of anything I would use it for. They touted the container as useful for freezing large quantities of produce prior to canning because the sil...

Can Beeswax Cloth Wraps Replace Plastic Cling Wrap?

A few weeks ago, blog reader Sandy Lansdale posted a question in the Discussion Forum:

I would love to hear how this beeswax wrap works if anyone has tried it. Does it keep food well? How long does one wrap last? Has anyone bought from this site – http://www.beeswrap.com/pages/our-pro...?

Thanks,

Sandy

Well, Sandy, as it happens, I did try three different beeswax cloth wraps all the way back in January of this year and meant to write a review of them at the time. But, to be honest, I was le...

Plastic-Free EcoEtsy Holiday Gift Give-Away

EcoEtsy is giving away 7 different holiday gifts to 7 different readers of My Plastic-Free Life. They are also offering holiday discounts. Please read the full post in order to enter the drawing.

Cory Trusty, whom you might remember from my September 9 post, is the owner of Aquarian Bath and offers many plastic-free personal care products in plastic-free shipping materials.

Cory is also a member of Team EcoEtsy,a global team of eco-minded Etsy sellers, whose mission is dedicated to protecti...

A Tale of Two Plastic-Free Salad Spinners

We’ve had a Copcoplastic salad spinner (aka lettuce dryer) for years. Actually, Michael has had it since the 90′s before I was even a thought in his head.

I use it because we already have it, but I’ve never liked it. It’s plastic, so it gets slimy and hard to clean out. And it’s big. It takes up a lot of valuable real estate in the kitchen. From time to time, I’ve gone online and searched Google for “plastic-free salad spinner” or “stainless steel salad spinner.” But I just keep getting tr...

Thanksgiving Dinner with Less Plastic

What are you doing for Thanksgiving? Michael and I are going to a potluck feast at the home of our friends David and Nancy. Our contributions will be baked yams, mashed potatoes, and a persimmon orange pomegranate salad. And nearly all of the ingredients will be plastic-free:

Salad greens, orange, pomegranate, persimmon, lemon, yams, and potatoes are from the farmers market.

Other ingredients like pecans, brown sugar, olive oil, and vinegar are from bulk bins in our own containers.

The only...

New Plastic-Free AudioBook is out now with updated content

Do you ever feel like you have a little Beth Terry sitting on your shoulder whispering into your ear things like, “Remember your reusable bags. Do you really want raw, organic cashews packaged in plastic? See if you can find them in bulk. Does that water bottle have BPA in it?” Well, now you can listen to my voice for real. (I think you’ll find my actual voice may be kinder and gentler than the one in your head.)

This summer, I spent many hours in a recording studio in Berkeley, CA, readin...

Thinking About Toothpaste at a Meditation Retreat

It’s been a busy two weeks, and I haven’t had a spare minute to write a blog post. I shouldn’t actually be writing one now because I’m at a silent meditation retreat, and it’s not really allowed.

But being here at the retreat center, a place I’ve come twice a year for the past 14 years or so, I remembered something that happened here 9 or 10 years ago, and thought I’d share.

On one particular retreat, I forgot to bring toothpaste. And I remember walking down the hill to the local drugstore, the...

Quick Action: Ask Vita-Mix to bring back the stainless steel blender pitcher!

Did you know Vita-Mix, the high speed blender that is so fast it can make hot soup, originally came with a stainless steel container instead of plastic?

If you don’t have time to read this whole post, please click the following link to sign and share the brand new petition I posted on Change.org last night asking the company to bring back the stainless steel container.

http://www.change.org/petitions/vita-mix-please-bring-back-the-stainless-steel-pitcher

Okay, I’m guessing you have questions. I...

Do I Look Good in Plastic?

Artist Tess Felix creates amazing portraits out of plastic trash she collects near her home in Stinson Beach, CA. She reached out to me in early 2012 when I was finishing up the manuscript of my book to see if she could do my portrait for the book’s jacket. Sadly, it was too late for that. But this summer, she did a series of portraits of ocean advocates–including me–and displayed them this weekend at the Bioneers Conference in Marin County, CA. I think we all look amazing in plastic, if a bi...

It’s #BlogActionDay and My Smartphone May Be Violating Your #HumanRights

On Blog Action Day, bloggers around the world all post articles on a single topic. This year, the topic is human rights, and as I sit here typing (or Swyping) this post into my Android mobile phone, I’m acutely aware that having a smartphone is very definitely NOT a human right. (Okay, this is going to be one of those weird, winding, philosophical posts that may not end up where we think it will. Let’s just see where it goes, okay?) So yes, human rights. But first, let me explain why I bought...