zero waste – Thousand Year Picnic

Nothing Breaks, It Just Turns Into Art

One truth’s been running through my head lately, pacing through the attic of my mind.

“Nothing breaks, it just turns into art.” It’s a good reason to make all things beautiful. When they break, they won’t just be works of art, but beautiful works of art.

Once I realized this truth, I kept seeing proof of it everywhere.

Freeganism: What, Why, And How?

Freeganism is a lifestyle and diet based on consuming resources that have been (or would be) thrown away. In shorter words, eating food from the trash.

For the past 8 years, I’ve lived the freegan life. I get about 85% of my food from dumpster diving, and I’m eating good. I get so many questions about it, and I wrote this up to answer some.

Zero Waste Cooking: What, Why, And How?

I’ve been doing it for years, but to many folks, “Zero Waste Cooking” is just a cryptic combination of three random words…it might as well be “Full Contact Zucchini.” So, I wanted to write a little bit (or a little lot) about the “What, “Why,” and “How” of zero waste cooking.