SF Teaching Zoo Zero Wasters

Have you seen the commercials where snack and beverage companies are working to reduce/reuse and make sustainable changes with plastic?

Saw this idea on social media. The comments were quite entertaining to down right rude. You can use TP or paper towel rolls for this idea.

Do you know you can borrow movies for free from the library? Save your membership fees to these online movie services and borrow old and new releases for free! You can keep them for 2 weeks to 6 weeks at our local branches. Plus, you can rent stacks at a time! For example, I picked up the whole avenger series to watch over a couple weeks! You...

I like keeping my clothes and altering the look for the season by mixing with other items. For example, I have a cute skirt that I wear with a Christmas shirt. After the holiday, I wear a different sweater with it for the rest of winter, then put a different top with it for the rest of the year. I mix these tops with other bottoms and jeans too...

I learned so much on the tour of the Leveda Brown Environmental Center. I am being more selective in what I purchase and saving containers to reuse. I will also be expanding my classroom teaching unit about plastics so that my students will understand how their daily habits impact our environment and that they can make simple changes to reduce...

I enjoyed swinging into Whole Foods yesterday to see they use paper grocery bags for purchases (we brought our own reusable bag) and for their buffet to-go food section, there are cardboard folding boxes! Plus if you have Amazon Prime-you can get discounts on so many items!

I hate how much food we waste. Our home needs to minimize the meal amount each day so leftovers can be consumed I. A reasonable amount of time. So by making careful purchasing decisions can help reduce waste. For example, purchase less fruit so can be eaten before going bad, make more frequent purchases in smaller amounts to extend freshness....

It’s unfortunate how many factories are creating high volume plastics and dumping waste in water supply, air and ground. This reminded me of the Erin Brokovich story. Another movie is The Distinguished Gentleman where Eddie Murphy is elected as a lawmaker because of his name, but discovers the dirty back room agreements that take place. He...

We didn’t realize what defined environmental justice, or how exposed people are to such negatively toxic things. It’s almost sickening thinking of environments I’ve lived or stayed, I can’t imagine what others have been exposed that are not financially stable.

Today I was able to pick up some litter on a walk around my community. Found a lot of random stuff including socks.