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Welcome to Bluedot Living’s BuyBetter Marketplace, a biweekly newsletter that navigates the confusing world of stuff.
If your friend sent you this, you can sign up for yourself here to receive the BuyBetter newsletter every other Monday. Do you know someone else who would enjoy it? Forward to a friend. |
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Bluedot Living’s BuyBetter Marketplace newsletter features items we believe in. When you make a purchase through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. |
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It’s been about fifteen years since I last shopped for school supplies, but I recall the process as being truly thrilling. Lisa Frank! Hello Kitty! Gel pens! Holographic folders! And while the excitement remains, I’m a bit more discerning about my purchases. Back-to-school season is about new beginnings, potential, and a clean slate. Maybe this year, that clean slate can be a green slate — shopping differently by looking for organic, compostable, refillable, and reusable items. |
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We’re all for making use of what you already have, but every now and then you’ve got to go shopping.
Photo by Masheter Movie Archive, courtesy Alamy Stock Photo |
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Terra Thread’s durable, ethically produced organic cotton backpacks top our list. The smaller sizes will be available in a full range of colors in about three weeks. Read our review. |
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Bluedot Institute: Amplifying Student Voices |
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Bluedot Living runs a very cool non-profit public benefit corporation: Bluedot Institute. Bluedot Institute supports students and their teachers in creating local, solution-oriented projects that address the environment and climate change. We established this non-profit in 2021, motivated by the realization that the younger generation has big challenges to manage. We broadcast their voicesand create a community of young people who can learn from and be inspired by each others’ actions. In this way Bluedot Institute seeks to empower a new wave of environmental stewardship.
To amplify students’ voices, reflections, and initiatives, we established the Emerging Leaders Program. We share students’ personal essays, research papers, poetry, and more on the Bluedot Institute website so that others may learn from them and affect change in their own communities. Read about one student’s experience with extreme flooding in her hometown, learn how another approached reducing plastic waste in her high school, and hear a plea for preserving the wonder of fireflies.
Bluedot Institute is always looking for young trailblazers who wish to share their work with peers and become a part of the larger climate and sustainability conversation.
Email Lucas Thors at lucas@bluedotliving.com and visit bluedot-institute.org to find our more about the Bluedot Institute. |
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Want to get in touch? I’d love to hear from you. Tell me about your favorite ways to keep school shopping under control, your favorite sustainable products, or anything else that’s on your mind — email marketplace@bluedotliving.com. I’ll see you again in two weeks.
–Elizabeth |
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Elizabeth Weinstein, Bluedot’s Marketplace Editor, lives in Manhattan with her husband; her papillon, Finley; and her cats, SanDeE* and Modell. When she’s not asking the folks at Bloomingdale’s and Nordstrom to try on all of their sustainable sneakers in a size 9½, she can be found at the Union Square Greenmarket or gardening on her rooftop terrace. |
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