Anne-Marie Bonneau

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Feed a Freezer, Starve a Landfill You have a powerful tool in your kitchen that reduces wasted food

The freezer is a giant food preserving machine that requires no skills, no time and no additional kitchen tools.

Go here to read more: zerowastechef.substack.com/p/feed-a-fre...

The life of microplastic: how fragments move through plants, insects, animals – and you Microplastics have been found in the placentas of unborn babies, the depths of the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest and the organs of Antarctic penguins. But how do they travel through the world,...

The soil contains even more microplastic pollution than the oceans. We need regulation to mitigate this crisis. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Thank you for attending!

The birds that visit our hanging bird feeder planted themselves a beautiful yellow bird feeder. It should be ready for harvesting in a month or so.

The DARK side of toilet paper In North America, toilet paper is king, but all that wiping is bad for the planet. It’s estimated that in the U.S. alone, each person uses about 141 rolls of toilet paper per year. So we’re chopping d...

We have used enough TP over the last 30 years to stretch across our solar system 😳 And most of it comes from virgin wood pulp. Make Bidets Great Again. Thank you for your attention to this matter 💩

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

I'm almost finished reading The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth, by Zoë Schlanger.

Plants communicate, recognize (and favor) their kin, hear sounds, store memories and some even change their shape to mimic nearby plants 🤯

Thank you!

Reminder: Your food doesn't need to look Instagram-worthy and neither does your kitchen 😉

On July 23rd, from 5 to 6pm PT, I'll be chatting with David Crow, a plant medicine expert, clinician, consultant, researcher, educator and author, on Zoom about microplastics and how to avoid them at home. Please go here to register for this free event: www.crowconsultations.com/opt-in-page-...

If you don’t live in California, you might be unaware of all the ICE mayhem. Here’s just part of the @latimes.com front page right now

The economy is just a distraction from the concentration camps

It's hot... 🥵☀️

Make sure to put out plenty of water for birds & wildlife so they can keep cool and have enough to drink.

They'll thank you!

Are We Thinking Too Much About Politics? It's worth asking.

To resist, stay calm.

I'll be giving a talk on plastic-free living this Sunday at the Sunnyvale Public Library at 1:30pm. Please go here to register: sunnyvale.libcal.com/event/14602391

Shown here: Cutting mushrooms (or any food) on a wooden cutting board sheds no microplastic. #plasticfreejuly

Yum! That looks delicious. Thanks for sharing the pic 😋

I made your any fruit galette yesterday using some gorgeous plums. So pretty and so good.

Strawberries and boysenberries for stress baking this weekend. I transport them home in my own container to prevent both squishing and plastic pollution.

#plasticfreejuly

Meredith Lee Hill on Twitter: “Speaker Johnson this morning acknowledges he doesn't have the votes to pass the rule yet - "we're working on all that right now" he tells @nicholaswu12 "working through everybody's concerns and letting them know this is the best possible product we can produce."”

As of right now, House Republicans don’t have enough votes to pass Trump’s Tax Scam that would gut Medicaid to give billionaires more tax cuts.

Keep calling GOP representatives: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Join a phonebank to contact voters in key GOP districts: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

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Fruit stickers are annoying and bad for the environment. So why did an Australian ban come unstuck? Governments flagged fruit stickers for the chopping block but then South Australia shelved its September deadline after industry asked for more time

Why is this hard

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My daughter Charlotte made another notebook. For this cover, she cut up a lemonade carton. She saves the cardboard from her spiral notebooks for back covers.

Working on a burger bun recipe

#plasticfreejuly

Isn’t it?! I’ve only started the book but am loving it so far.

Currently reading The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Crisis, by Mark J Easter

More info from @bookshop_org: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Today would be a great day to cancel Amazon Prime (if you haven’t already) and vow to shop small as much as possible.

Check out my new post on cutting plastic in the garden!

Every time we put a bag of raked leaves out at the curb only to then buy mulch, a marketer gets their wings.

Go here to read more: open.substack.com/pub/zerowast...

Berry ice cream in a jar

Mix ingredients for your favorite frozen dessert in a wide-mouth, straight-sided jar. (I quartered my recipe to fit.) Leave 3 inches of space at the top. Put it in the freezer. Remove every 30 mins to stir until frozen (mine took 3 hours). Return to the freezer until firm.

Greetings from the hellscape of San Francisco