Seasonal Living and Reducing Consumption Cycles
Modern life often feels like it runs on a constant loop of buying, upgrading, replacing, and optimizing. The calendar barely matters—new products arr ...
4 Swaps for a Zero Waste Bathroom (or Sailboat Head)
While learning how to reduce our waste footprint has been super inspiring, sometimes, yes, it can feel daunting too. Take, for instance, one of ou ...
Heading Towards Zero Waste from Our Boat
In the past, Michael and I would’ve described ourselves as pretty environmentally-savvy. I mean, we dutifully recycle, we’ve maintained a worm c ...
Zero-Waste Groceries For Sailboat Life
Our journey to reduce our plastic usage and waste footprint continue to involve some highs and unexpected challenges too! For starters, we’ve than ...
10 Reasons For Living On A Sailboat In Winter
This was our first winter on Hope, our 35′ sailboat, and we’re learning that living on a sailboat in winter offers, well, of course, its share of cha ...
2 Expert Books You Need To Handle Every Boat Problem
Since moving aboard our sailboat, my nightly bedtime reading has often alternated between two of the best boat maintenance manuals around—Nigel Calde ...
Economy, Ecology & Excrement: Why we installed a composting toilet!
Ecology, Excrement (sorry, I couldn’t resist this one), and Economy—the three E’s of why we decided to ditch our marine head with a holding tank and ...
9 ways we can avoid plastic during the pandemic (and after)
As many aspects of our everyday lives have come to a standstill during the Covid-19 pandemic, the global climate fight, too, faces a major challenge ...