It’s about mindset – and that new mindset will put pressure on the economy that the corporations can’t ignore. This week we had Greta Thunburg to remind us that “bit by bit what ever I can do” isn’t enough anymore. Our resources are not only finite… they are literally running out. Mindset – not bit by bit whatever small thing I can do adds up – but what big change can I do that will wake up and scare the establishment. I have no economic basis for this but figure but I feel like even 5% of the market saying “no, I won’t buy it if it comes in packaging” would have a big impact on companies. “Well, just for today but maybe not tomorrow” doesn’t have the same weight.

However, I still believe that big changes have to happen bit by bit in order to be sustainable. We’ve been working hard on getting single use plastic out of our lives… making changes every week to our routine, diet, habits – for nine months and I’d say we are only just starting. But – the changes that we have made have stuck. Make sense? Bit by bit, and fast, and maybe small changes… but LOTS of them. That’s where I’m headed.

Today we had a school BBQ. We’ve been before and know how it rolls. The school serves the hotdogs and hamburgers on coffee filters, but sell drinks in plastic bottles. Knowing that, with a little bit of prep, I can reduce our impact by a lot.

I prepped and packed a lemonade. I make it in the Vitamix – which makes it really fast. Brought some cloth napkins and cups. That way the only waste we create (besides the secondary waste of the packaging that the burgers were in) are the coffee filters. Besides, I get to carry this pretty basket (which I bought second hand) – makes me feel like Little Red. It’s heavy and a bit inconvenient. More inconvenient than figuring out how to create oxygen when the ecosystem collapses? Nope… not that inconvenient. 


Thanks Greta for reminding me to talk it straight.