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SIMPLE / SMART / SUSTAINABLE / STORIES
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SIMPLE / SMART / SUSTAINABLE / STORIES
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Bluedot photographer Randi Baird (here’s a story she shot on mushroom growers, and another about kelp farmers) recently covered a whole slew of stories for us in California. This is Blossom the bunny, and she’s eating greens planted just for her. You can read about pet-friendly gardens when we launch Bluedot Living in San Diego in a few weeks! Sign up for Bluedot’s San Diego newsletter here.
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DISPATCHES FROM ALL OVER · SUSTAINABLE LIVING ADVICE · ECO-FRIENDLY RECIPES
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DISPATCHES FROM ALL OVER
SUSTAINABLE LIVING ADVICE
ECO-FRIENDLY RECIPES
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“When we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action.”
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–Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg posted this on Twitter in 2018 but it’s a point that is as relevant today as it has always been. Thunberg speaks to the urgency of this moment — when every delay means a hotter, costlier future — but also to the shift in our perspective when we take climate action. We don’t act necessarily because we’re hopeful but we become hopeful when we act. And hope grows when we see the actions of so many others around us.
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Skip scrolling! Here's what you'll find in this edition of the Bluedot Newsletter:
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Make it happen: Shopping locally means you don’t need catalogs, right?
Eco-advice maven Dear Dot tells you how to banish them from your mailbox.
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THE BLUEDOT KITCHEN
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Prioritizing seasonal and local ingredients gives you sustainable eating at its very best. You might have missed this news: The United Nations declared 2023 the International Year of Millet. Millet looks like the grain of the future: It can be grown without fertilizers or pesticides, is able to withstand temperature changes, can be safely stored for years, and is nutritionally dense (and makes a mean burger). Make a Winter Triple Orange and Fennel Salad to go along with your mouth-watering millet burger.
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When it comes to navigating the world of eco-conscious wines, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the vast viticultural vocabulary folks in the beverage
industry use to categorize winemaking practices: natural, biodynamic, organic, low-intervention, single-vineyard, unfined and unfiltered … But what about “grower”? Julia Cooper takes a deep dive into the category of grower Champagnes to help us understand what goes into some of the world’s most sought-after bottles of bubbles.
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Dear Dot: The Picture About Paint
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Dear Dot,
What’s so bad about paint? Is there any good paint?
–Tiz
Dear Tiz,
“Manufacturers use somewhere in the vicinity of 50 to 150 chemicals in paint,” Joel Hirshberg tells me over the phone from where he lives in a small community in Iowa. Hirshberg is the founder of Green Building Supply, a 32-year-old company dedicated to vetting and selling building materials that are healthier for us and for the environment. But with building supplies and finishes, he tells me with a deep sigh, it’s not as simple as this-not-that.
For folks like you and me who maybe just want to splatter-paint our rental, it’s a bit of a Wild West in the paint aisle. What he’s also telling us is that, while VOCs have become the symbol of villainy of the paint world, there are other dangers lurking in the shadows.
What’s a wannabe wall Picasso to do? Read on for Dot’s advice.
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BUY LESS/BUY BETTER
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This week, slake your thirst with three products that Bluedot’s editors enjoy every day.
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Numi Tea
Marketplace editor Elizabeth Weinstein loves this climate-neutral, organic, fair-trade tea company. Her top picks are the Emperor’s Pu-erh, Congest Away, and Jasmine Green.
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Joi Plant Milk Concentrates
“I have never been so pleased by a non-dairy cappuccino,” raves Social Media Manager Julia Cooper, who loves the “foamability” of Joi almond milk concentrate.
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SodaStream
Bluedot’s Director of Publications Jamie Kageleiry positively bubbles over with enthusiasm when she talks about her SodaStream; she even brought it along on a recent vacation.
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The Social Hour
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Tis' the month of St. Patrick and we're celebrating all things #green:
Greenmarkets, green salads, and green reads!
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SIMPLE / SMART /
SUSTAINABLE / STORIES
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SIMPLE / SMART / SUSTAINABLE / STORIES
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