Make some of these bags with or without the drawstrings and use them as holiday gift bags, produce bags, or for organizing kids’ stuff.
GREEN LIVING
Changing how we do things – adopting eco-friendly habits – can make a huge impact on our environment and the sustainability of this planet. Green living means making subtle (or okay, sometimes drastic) changes in our lives.
There are so many small things that can collectively make a difference in our footprint on the earth. Green living efforts can include using less caustic cleaning materials, skipping single use plastic, and SO much more.
DIY Dryer Sheets from Old T-Shirts
These DIY dryer sheets are easy to make, reduce your family’s exposure to toxic chemicals, and save you money.
Making Soap: A Simple How-To for a Basic Bar
Making soap at home is a fun and satisfying DIY project. Better yet, making soap is easy. How to make soap at home? It’s like making cake with safety gear.
Linen Bread Bags: The Trick to Store Homemade Bread Longer
Wondering how to keep homemade bread fresh? Here’s how to store homemade bread in DIY linen bread bags so it lasts longer. Here’s how to make a bag from thrifted linen in 15 minutes!
Healthy, Less Waste Lunchbox Ideas for School
If you send kids off to school every day, you know just how hard it is to pull together a zero-waste lunch. If you’re trying to skip plastic products as well, it’s even harder.
How to Freeze Food Without Plastic – 8+ Easy Tactics for Less Waste
In recent memory, the consumers’ go-to for freezing foods has been plastic. But now that we’ve discovered that BPA (bisphenol-A) comes with certain health risks (and now, whoops! its replacement, BPS, might be even more damaging!) lots of people are looking for alternatives.
10 Ways to Cut Food Waste
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), every year 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted. Here’s how to save money and waste less in your kitchen.
20+ Ways to Reduce Single Use Plastic (Recycling isn’t the Answer)
We’re being overrun with plastic. Recycling plastic is NOT the answer. It’s time to talk about how to reduce plastic use in our homes & offices.
4 Steps to Creating an Eco-Friendly Backyard Oasis
If you’re ready to turn your yard into a non-toxic oasis for both you and the critters who live nearby, these tactics will give you some ideas on where to get started!
Aloha! I’m Kris Bordessa, author, hobby farmer, gardener, chicken wrangler, and eternal experimenter.
If you’re ready to shake up your pantry routine and shift from boxed to homemade, be sure to check out Attainable Sustainable Pantry (National Geographic Books), launching in March 2025.
My earlier book, Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living (also from National Geographic Books) was awarded the best how-to book of 2020 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Here at Attainable Sustainable, I encourage readers to embrace a more self-reliant lifestyle, one small step at a time.
