Challenge Toolkit: Reduce Waste

Custom Pages   |   March 19, 2018

10 Ways Changing Your Consumer Habits Can Change the World for Animals

Blog   |   by Stephanie Feldstein   |   June 6, 2018

How you spend your time and money affects the lives of those around you—including other animals.

Freecycling: Don’t Throw It Away, Give It Away

Blog   |   by Dale S. Brown   |   August 13, 2012

How can you assure that your unwanted items get to people who would find them helpful? Try Freecycling.

Christmas Is About Presence, Not Presents

Blog   |   by Sarah Allison   |   November 9, 2018

New Dream Youth Fellow Sarah Allison shares her experience and faith-based values around keeping the Christmas holiday focused on transformation and healing.

Making the Shift to Zero Waste Living

Blog   |   by Julie Fathy   |   February 23, 2017

A zero waste lifestyle might seem hard to implement and complicated to follow. But by taking small steps, you can make it a reality.

Easy Steps to Waste-Free School Lunches

Blog   |   by Tovah Paglaro   |   September 25, 2012

By choosing to forgo packaged or cafeteria food, we can teach our children healthy eating habits and minimize the garbage that ends up at landfills.

Young Leaders: We Need You!

Custom Pages   |   June 13, 2018

Stories of Going Veggie

Blog   |   by Hanaa   |   April 14, 2009

What’s the “Real” Climate Footprint of Your Community?

Blog   |   by Lisa Mastny   |   February 23, 2012

By measuring consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions, we can chart a path to more sustainable ways of living and doing.

Whatever Happened to Waste Reduction, or Preventing Waste in the First Place?

Blog   |   by Kelley Dennings   |   January 10, 2019

Advisory Council member Kelley Dennings considers why the recycling community may be abandoning the once-worthy goal of waste reduction, and offers thoughts for refocusing these efforts.

Why I Stopped Combing Through Chemicals and Took My Hair Care Into My Own Hands

Blog   |   by Jasmine Curtis   |   February 18, 2020

Many of the hair and beauty products marketed to Black women—from dyes and relaxers to lipsticks and makeup—pose serious health and environmental risks. Jasmine Curtis wants to change that.

Activism in a Place Where Eco Isn’t the Norm

Blog   |   by Christine Kane   |   October 18, 2018

Retiree and New Dreamer Chris Kane shares some of her strategies for being an eco-activist in her adopted home state of Florida.

What We See and What We Know (Or, Why We Need to Question Overabundance)

Blog   |   by Kate Parker   |   February 18, 2020

What is lost when we're confronted with a constant state of overabundance? What are the hidden systems that prop up these manifestations of largesse? And who are they good for?

Rethinking Plastic, Consumer Choices, and Our Values as Americans

Blog   |   by Dyaami D’Orazio   |   September 18, 2019

"We consume to have fun, to fit in, for convenience, to fill the spaces between ourselves and our families...and because the structure of society forces us to."