Simply Sustainable

Zusatztext Simply Sustainable guides you through the why and how of zero-waste, while emphasizing the importance of finding the sweet spot between sustainability and self-care. Lily acknowledges the pitfalls of striving for perfection and instead offers encouraging tips for creating a plastic-free outlook that is every bit as sustainable for people as it is for the planet. Whether you're just getting started or an old hat, there's a bit of something for everyone, but newbies in particular will walk away feeling encouraged, excited, and prepared to embark on a low-waste lifestyle. The tone is refreshing and the photos and design are simple, minimal, and beautiful. Julia Watkins, author of Simply Living Well If you're looking for fresh, practical tips on how to live a more sustainable life, look no further. Lily Cameron's Simply Sustainable is a beautiful and thoughtfully curated handbook filled with bite-size tips, hacks, and resources to help you achieve a low-waste, plastic-free way of life without sacrificing on style. Shira Gill, home organizing expert and author Informationen zum Autor Lily Cameron is passionate about living a minimal, zero-waste lifestyle and helping others do the same. She launched her store, Wild Minimalist, to make it easier for more people to switch to low-waste living, and shares tips and advice from her own family's plastic-free journey on their blog and Instagram. Lily lives in Marin, California, with her husband and business partner, Max; their son; and their rescue dachshund. Klappentext Break your plastic habit with simple, actionable steps and jumpstart your journey toward a minimal, beautiful, low-waste home. Transitioning to a zero-waste lifestyle means eliminating unnecessary clutter from your home and reducing your dependence on disposable goods, but it also comes with practical challenges that can seem daunting. In Simply Sustainable , perfection is not required. Whether you are looking for easy changes to get you started, or more advanced, high-impact tips for your low-waste home, these simple, effective steps will forever change your relationship to disposable plastic products. Lily Cameron shows readers how to gradually transition away from plastic and curate a minimal, beautiful home in the process. Her approach teaches you how to "make plastic-free living work for you, savor your progress and celebrate that with each small change, you are making a positive impact on the environment, your health and your family's well being." Simply Sustainable proves that zero-waste living can be easy and deeply satisfying, whether shopping at the farmers market, throwing a dinner party, or packing for a getaway weekend. With practical, manageable strategies organized by room, and inspiring photographs of plastic-free homes, you can begin your journey toward intentional, low-waste living. Leseprobe Chapter 1 Going Plastic-free(ish) I never considered myself part of the plastic problem. I grew up in California, the land of hippies and tree huggers, and my parents bought groceries in reusable totes long before plastic bag bans. I knew littering was wrong and recycling was good, and we even had an outdoor compost pile for kitchen scraps. As an adult, I felt good about my environmental efforts. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, I landed a job managing public relations for clean technology startups in the solar, energy storage, and water purification industries. I also rode public transportation to work or walked, ate a vegetarian diet, and lobbied my landlord to add a compost bin to our building. I knew climate change was a serious issue and scoffed at the drivers of gas-guzzling SUVs. It wasn't until I read about the zero-waste movement that I realized I could be doing better (like, a lot</i...

“Simply Sustainable guides you through the why and how of zero-waste, while emphasizing the importance of finding the sweet spot between sustainability and self-care. Lily acknowledges the pitfalls of striving for perfection and instead offers encouraging tips for creating a plastic-free outlook that is every bit as sustainable for people as it is for the planet. Whether you’re just getting started or an old hat, there’s a bit of something for everyone, but newbies in particular will walk away feeling encouraged, excited, and prepared to embark on a low-waste lifestyle. The tone is refreshing and the photos and design are simple, minimal, and beautiful.”—Julia Watkins, author of Simply Living Well

“If you’re looking for fresh, practical tips on how to live a more sustainable life, look no further. Lily Cameron’s Simply Sustainable is a beautiful and thoughtfully curated handbook filled with bite-size tips, hacks, and resources to help you achieve a low-waste, plastic-free way of life without sacrificing on style.”—Shira Gill, home organizing expert and author

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Lily Cameron is passionate about living a minimal, zero-waste lifestyle and helping others do the same. She launched her store, Wild Minimalist, to make it easier for more people to switch to low-waste living, and shares tips and advice from her own family's plastic-free journey on their blog and Instagram. Lily lives in Marin, California, with her husband and business partner, Max; their son; and their rescue dachshund.

Klappentext

Break your plastic habit with simple, actionable steps and jumpstart your journey toward a minimal, beautiful, low-waste home.

Transitioning to a zero-waste lifestyle means eliminating unnecessary clutter from your home and reducing your dependence on disposable goods, but it also comes with practical challenges that can seem daunting. In Simply Sustainable, perfection is not required. Whether you are looking for easy changes to get you started, or more advanced, high-impact tips for your low-waste home, these simple, effective steps will forever change your relationship to disposable plastic products.

Lily Cameron shows readers how to gradually transition away from plastic and curate a minimal, beautiful home in the process. Her approach teaches you how to "make plastic-free living work for you, savor your progress and celebrate that with each small change, you are making a positive impact on the environment, your health and your family's well being."

Simply Sustainable proves that zero-waste living can be easy and deeply satisfying, whether shopping at the farmers market, throwing a dinner party, or packing for a getaway weekend. With practical, manageable strategies organized by room, and inspiring photographs of plastic-free homes, you can begin your journey toward intentional, low-waste living.

Leseprobe
Chapter 1

Going Plastic-free(ish)

I never considered myself part of the plastic problem. I grew up in California, the land of hippies and tree huggers, and my parents bought groceries in reusable totes long before plastic bag bans. I knew littering was wrong and recycling was good, and we even had an outdoor compost pile for kitchen scraps.

As an adult, I felt good about my environmental efforts. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, I landed a job managing public relations for clean technology startups in the solar, energy storage, and water purification industries. I also rode public transportation to work or walked, ate a vegetarian diet, and lobbied my landlord to add a compost bin to our building. I knew climate change was a serious issue and scoffed at the drivers of gas-guzzling SUVs.

It wasn’t until I read about the zero-waste movement that I realized I could be doing better (like, a lot). I learned about a no-nonsense French woman, Bea Johnson, who fit an entire year’s worth of her family’s trash into a single 8-ounce Le Parfait jar. Seeing how little waste she produced ma…