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Welcome to The Weekly, a Bluedot Living newsletter that gathers good news, good food, and good tips for living every day more sustainably. |
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Welcome to The Weekly, a Bluedot Living newsletter that gathers good news, good food, and good tips for living every day more sustainably. |
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SIMPLE / SMART / SUSTAINABLE / STORIES |
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Bluedot founder Victoria Riskin just got back from an expedition to Little St. Simons Island, in Georgia’s Lowcountry. “The ferry carried us from the fully developed world of neighboring St. Simons Island, with its traditional Southern homes, to something altogether different,” she wrote in this story about the trip. “As we stepped ashore, we looked up into an endless canopy of live oaks draped with Spanish moss that hung like antique lace. … Behind us, a bird rose from the water’s edge, and the rush of its wings was amplified in the stillness, introducing us to the exotic sounds of the wild. We immediately surrendered to the place.”
(These are roseate spoonbills pictured).
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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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“Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”
– Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat’s Cradle
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Skip scrolling! Here's what you'll find in this edition of the Bluedot newsletter: |
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FEATURED STORIES |
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BIG IDEAS AND LOCAL CHANGEMAKERS |
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Whether you’re adventuring down waterways and new roads or just going about your usual routine, the way you get around makes all the difference.
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Visit ClimateTrade to calculate your carbon footprint and get tips on reducing it.
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The beauty of the tomato sandwich lies in its simplicity: soft bread, a slather of mayo, and a tomato ripened in the heat of summer, juice sliding down your wrists. It is the perfect quick summer lunch; no frills needed.
Get the recipe.
Try making your own mayo with a few kitchen staples. It’s easier than you think!
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We’re not saying that you need to mow your lawn with the ancient cutting tool that you probably most readily identify with the Grim Reaper. But you could. On Nantucket, Will Kinsella did just that with his meadow. Beyond the exercise he got, beyond the Earth-friendliness he partook in, there was the quiet: “Nationwide, noise may be the most widespread and most underacknowledged pollutant. … While the sound intensity produced by a gas-powered push or riding mower is comparable to that of a motorcycle, the scythe makes about as much noise as grasses rustling in the breeze.”
If you can’t scythe yourself, you can read about it.
That is not Will in the painting, by the way. It’s “The Veteran in a New Field,” by Winslow Homer.
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Illustration by Elissa Turnbull |
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“Today’s small act of resistance is this: Put the phone down. Not to be more present in some self-improvement way, but to practice the older, slower way of seeing Jaouad is mourning — the kind where you’re not the recorder of the moment, but part of it. The unnamed flower, the anonymous bird, the hilarious thing your pet just did: It happened. You were there. That’s the whole thing.”
Read the whole thing. |
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Heavy coolers are one of picnicking’s pains. Out of the Woods solves that problem with lightweight, soft-sided, easy-to-carry coolers that keep frozen food chilled for up to five hours. They also make great-looking totes. Like Bluedot Living, Out of the Woods is a 1% for the Planet member and plants a tree with every order, so every purchase you make will result in two trees being planted. (Totes from $9; coolers from $32.)
Pack a Lighter Cooler
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Want to preserve the trails in your community? Become a steward. Bluedot contributor Corey Burdick told us how it works in Burlington, Vermont, where an organization empowers hikers to maintain these wild spaces. What’s more, they’ll help you organize in your community. Click here to find out how.
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The World at 15 MPH |
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I was just 24 when I had the chance, while studying in Europe, to cycle through northern Italy. Friends and I pedaled our way through small towns and across islands, stopping for picnic lunches on the lawns of old castles, pausing to gulp down grapes tossed to us by workers in vineyards, and resting at day’s end for dinner at local inns. This, I said to myself at the time, is the best way to see the world.
So I jumped at the chance when, a few years ago, a friend celebrating a milestone birthday invited my husband and me to join them cycling the coast of Croatia. And then, just last month, we reunited to bike the Cycladic islands of Greece.
We at Bluedot are big proponents of what we call “human-powered travel.” Whether on two feet or two wheels, by slowing down we can see more, savor more. The world looks different — it feels different — at 15 mph.
We’re already planning our next cycling trip (and shopping for e-bikes as our knees become less enthusiastic about hills). This, we tell ourselves, is the best way to see the world.
Enjoy the weekend, and we’ll see you next week.
– Leslie Garrett (and Jamie Kageleiry, Emily Cain, and Robin Jones)
Editors
Write us at editor@bluedotliving.com |
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Leslie Garrett has been covering climate stories for close to two decades. She makes her home in Canada, west of Toronto. She’s still figuring out her favorite spot but it’s definitely near the water.
Jamie Kageleiry, a longtime magazine and newspaper editor from Martha’s Vineyard, says her favorite spot on earth is out on a kayak there, looking at birds.
Robin Jones is a Southern California native who served as an editor at Westways magazine for more than a decade. She lives in Long Beach and teaches journalism at Cal State Long Beach.
Emily Cain is a recent graduate of Cal State Long Beach, where she wrote and edited for the university’s award-winning magazine, DIG. |
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