tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77153581008437113532024-03-13T22:36:49.282-07:00Good Economic/Ecological Practices for ConsumersWe are all consumers by necessity (to live is to consume). As a consumer, here are the best economical, ethical, and ecological practices and products that I've been able to find.Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-55662960463726040352020-11-16T01:17:00.019-08:002021-02-07T13:10:43.184-08:00Zero Waste Restaurant Takeout<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S7oiWBvZEpo/X7I51E0_sHI/AAAAAAABoQI/wqzKUjgApC8zcNeCOFcy8LPDdLiFlquwQCNcBGAsYHQ/s1280/IMG_5984.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S7oiWBvZEpo/X7I51E0_sHI/AAAAAAABoQI/wqzKUjgApC8zcNeCOFcy8LPDdLiFlquwQCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_5984.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Take out food containers are mostly trash and cannot be recycled due to mixed materials and contamination. The good news is that it is legal and super easy to <b>get zero waste takeout from most ANY restaurant in California</b> that can serve onto its own reusable plates!! This way you can get your food to eat at home on real plates with real cutlery and not create any trash. Read on to learn how!</p><p>In the picture above I am picking up a pizza in as Zero Waste way as possible from Jake's of Sunnyvale -- the pizza goes into an aluminum pizza container I made from two 20" pizza pans. The paired set of aluminum pans then goes into a reusable pizza bag that keeps the pizza warm -- watch out, a fresh pizza makes the aluminum pans very hot (and sterile)! I bike it all home in my covered all purpose bike trailer. I use a clean sheet to line the inside when carrying food.</p><p>Here is a sequence of pictures I took at a different pizzeria that show off the pans I use.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h3qNRRU0UBU/X7I-rcM7h1I/AAAAAAABoQU/INZZYMcU7DkNP1qs48GZqBEsmuZUf6mwwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1280/IMG_9913.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h3qNRRU0UBU/X7I-rcM7h1I/AAAAAAABoQU/INZZYMcU7DkNP1qs48GZqBEsmuZUf6mwwCNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/IMG_9913.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hywiuWhI32I/X7I-rcDameI/AAAAAAABoQY/JkvFsC86L5Uam-TtJz8V-j1kFFcVhWXOACNcBGAsYHQ/s1280/IMG_9914.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hywiuWhI32I/X7I-rcDameI/AAAAAAABoQY/JkvFsC86L5Uam-TtJz8V-j1kFFcVhWXOACNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/IMG_9914.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-plUiBaryM0g/X7I-rQIzYII/AAAAAAABoQc/QxsGvOc60l8qWGzh6-v3N2q6i4oAa5DZACNcBGAsYHQ/s1280/IMG_9916.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-plUiBaryM0g/X7I-rQIzYII/AAAAAAABoQc/QxsGvOc60l8qWGzh6-v3N2q6i4oAa5DZACNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/IMG_9916.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I tried to find a couple of pans with a deeper dish but ended up bending the edges of one of these very large pans to create a lid with deeper clearance. I've gotten pizza from 5 different local pizzerias dozens of times in my area and they all are very accommodating and appreciate the business. Now I just need to find a pizzeria that makes a whole wheat pizza from organic ingredients...<br /><p>While my pizza pickup technique requires some specialized equipment, getting zero waste takeout from most restaurants is really pretty easy. Below is one important tip, one important factor, and three simple options to getting zero waste takeout from just about any restaurant.</p><p>Important tip: always call ahead to make sure the restaurant in question can handle your zero waste option even if you have picked up from them before. There is staff turnover and you don't want to be embarrassed or disappointed. This is also a great marketing opportunity for zero waste!<br /><br />The one important factor is the restaurant MUST NOT be a typical fast food restaurant that only serves into its own disposable containers. A restaurant that normally serves onto its own reusable plates is key plus <b>local restaurants (not chain restaurants) are the best and more accommodating.</b></p><p>The three simple options are:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>The restaurant serves its food onto its own plates and puts them on a table where the customer can use utensils and/or their own spatula to transfer the food to their take home reusable containers.</li><li>The restaurant takes your reusables and washes them thru its high speed commercial dish washing machine then serves into your containers.</li><li>The restaurant has some other safe and cross contamination free mechanism to get food into your container -- like simply dropping it in.</li></ol><div>For food other than pizza, we use standard polyethylene quart size deli containers to get take out Chinese, Indian, and others instead of the using disposable cardboard/plastic or disposable plastic clamshell containers. For other restaurants that use clamshell disposable containers, we use a variety of other Tupperware style containers made of polypropylene. Polyethylene and polypropylene plastics are the safest to use with food, don't break easily (like when carrying by bike), easy to clean, and are also somewhat recyclable.</div><div><br /></div><div>Remember to tell the restaurant you don't want any disposable condiments, napkins, or plasticware. It is amazing how they automatically toss all this trash into their bags. If you do need condiments, bring some small containers to hold these waste free. </div><div><br /></div><div>Hope you find these tips useful and are able to get zero waste takeout too! </div><div><br /></div><div>If you like this article, please also visit my Zero Waste website at <a href="https://www.ZeroW.org">ZeroW.org</a> and consider joining or donating to the <a href="https://bikesiliconvalley.org/donate">Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition</a>. Even if you don't bike, they do more to reduce waste than most any other organization around.<br /><br /><b>December 2020 Update:<br /></b><br />I forgot to include links to the laws covering consumer provided containers. Please see:<br /><div><a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB619">https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB619</a></div><div>and</div><div><div><a href="https://thespoon.tech/new-california-law-sets-protocol-for-reusable-food-and-drink-containers/">https://thespoon.tech/new-california-law-sets-protocol-for-reusable-food-and-drink-containers/</a></div></div><div><br />Also, I generously tip restaurants that allow me to pick up food in a zero waste manner.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, my mom made some cushy cozies for my 1 quart wide mouth mason jars so I can now carry these jars safely on my bike without breaking them. I used this new system (along with some silicon cozies as well to be extra safe) to get takeout from <a href="https://thegurkhaskitchen.com/">The Gurkha Kitchen</a> in Sunnyvale. Yay!</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n3OiwqajCuc/X-qs2PYuFRI/AAAAAAABoWk/RreGG9lp0mYAyO4NhbFJ8brQmVVIbAXpACNcBGAsYHQ/s1280/IMG_6535.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n3OiwqajCuc/X-qs2PYuFRI/AAAAAAABoWk/RreGG9lp0mYAyO4NhbFJ8brQmVVIbAXpACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_6535.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SpX14CMgHtE/X-qs2POj1qI/AAAAAAABoWo/ytvYSGhEKVwIxZV5x-Q8U-FPBS9gZnv3gCNcBGAsYHQ/s1280/IMG_6536.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SpX14CMgHtE/X-qs2POj1qI/AAAAAAABoWo/ytvYSGhEKVwIxZV5x-Q8U-FPBS9gZnv3gCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_6536.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><p></p>Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0Sunnyvale, CA, USA37.36883 -122.03634969.0585961638211572 -157.1925996 65.679063836178841 -86.8800996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-1610896390935865112020-10-10T10:53:00.005-07:002020-10-19T19:59:50.930-07:00Help make the CA DMV bicycle friendly! <p>Bicycling is inexpensive, healthy, and the most efficient form of transportation around.</p><p>Please write to California Governor Gavin Newsom and encourage him to make all California DMV offices truly friendly to bicyclists. Below is the email I sent him at <a href="https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/">https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/</a>. Alas I could not send along pictures in the form based email submission but here are some pictures from my recent DMV visit. </p><p>At the DMV in Santa Clara:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T1y878VPN5Y/X4HzKbsrpSI/AAAAAAABoKc/cpels7By7Gk3v-PCE1gt2wPC9c3bSbqBQCNcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5167.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T1y878VPN5Y/X4HzKbsrpSI/AAAAAAABoKc/cpels7By7Gk3v-PCE1gt2wPC9c3bSbqBQCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_5167.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Their lonely and isolated wheel bender rack is flush against a wall so the center section that bends your wheel cannot even be used:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YvgU-YnNjM0/X4HzeiU3MGI/AAAAAAABoKk/ho7GFVSXkKcgQ3ka03AfMrukg_r7B1XAACNcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5165.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YvgU-YnNjM0/X4HzeiU3MGI/AAAAAAABoKk/ho7GFVSXkKcgQ3ka03AfMrukg_r7B1XAACNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_5165.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Luckily with COVID there are lots of guards and staff outside at their entrance so they watched my bike next to the front door while I was inside:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O4tBsb9hcA4/X4HzwisScgI/AAAAAAABoKs/91n5EMh-m80mv0Z4HIT0UE4FWg_tF7VKQCNcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5166.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O4tBsb9hcA4/X4HzwisScgI/AAAAAAABoKs/91n5EMh-m80mv0Z4HIT0UE4FWg_tF7VKQCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_5166.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Locking my commuter/shopping bike to an outdoor bike rack is a big pain and risky -- it is much easier to roll it inside with me. I tend to only shop where I can bring my bike inside because I bike everywhere and use my bike as my shopping cart. Most places do not have good bike parking.<br /><p></p><p>------------------</p><p>Dear Governor Newsom,</p><p>Today I bicycled to my local DMV to get a RealID. It is really tough for bicyclists at the DMV. The bicycle rack was in an odd place, badly designed (a wheel-bender rack that was shoved against a wall so that didn't even work), and leaves my bike and all its attachments -- lights, tool bag, pump, speaker, and other necessary attachments -- all exposed to theft. I've had my lights stolen twice after parking my bike at grocery stores. Other people have had their bicycle seats stolen. Do you need to dismantle your car each time you park it?</p><p>California DMVs could really benefit from first class bicycle parking like cars get first class parking. The best parking for bikes is to just bring them inside with you -- they are just like a stroller and many people consider their bikes their babies. </p><p>The next best are electronic bike lockers like those from BikeLink (https://www.bikelink.org/). Outdoor racks are not that good -- like leaving the doors on your car open all the time while you are parked. Would you do that on a regular basis?</p><p>Could you change our California government bicycle policies to let bikes inside as much as possible and when that is not possible make sure bicycles have bike lockers to park in at all our California state offices?</p><p>Cars carry tons of heavy metal to keep them and their contents secure. This wastes megatons of fuel and creates megatons of CO2 powering climate change. Bikes are super efficient and prevent climate change but lack safe and secure weatherproof parking at most locations.</p><p>We need to shift people away from cars and providing safe bike parking would help. Many people still need drivers licenses for identification purposes and need to visit DMVs.</p><p>So can you make bike parking weatherproof, safe and secure for bicyclists at DMV offices? And big enough to fit all sorts of bikes including those with panniers that carry stuff people need? Then do this for all other state offices too.</p><p>Thanks!</p><p>Sincerely,</p><p>Tim</p>Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-69883513231013786262020-07-27T00:35:00.006-07:002020-07-27T09:40:57.035-07:00Would you like to be $2 Million Richer?<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DMj0_7y81PM/Xx5_M34clwI/AAAAAAABn-I/B-xK78AGCbED80rq9jzIKE1U9R0z8kD8ACNcBGAsYHQ/s500/ChildCost.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="500" height="309" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DMj0_7y81PM/Xx5_M34clwI/AAAAAAABn-I/B-xK78AGCbED80rq9jzIKE1U9R0z8kD8ACNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h309/ChildCost.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">How would you like to be a millionaire? One way to help you get there is to save money. If you are a couple who is thinking of having 2 kids and 2 cars here are two big ways to reduce your costs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The <a href="https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2017/01/13/cost-raising-child" target="_blank">USDA recently calculated that the average child in the US would cost $233,610</a> to raise from 0 to age 17. This does not include college costs. College costs can vary widely (community colleges are a great deal) but if you send your kid to a private college this can easily cost $50,000 to $70.000 a year or $200,000 to $280,000 for 4 years.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So if a young couple chooses NOT to have two children, they could save roughly $1 million!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now on the car front, <a href="https://newsroom.aaa.com/auto/your-driving-costs/" target="_blank">AAA recently calculated that the average cost of car ownership in the US is $9282 per year</a>. That comes to $557,000 per car over a lifetime of car ownership (say about 60 years). So if a young couple decides to forgo owning two cars and use bicycles to get around instead they will save about $1.1 million!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Combine the savings from deciding not to have kids and not to have cars and you can save about $2.1 million US dollars.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The savings don't stop there either. <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/7/14/15963544/climate-change-individual-choices" target="_blank">Bringing a kid into this world has by far the biggest impact on climate change</a> and resource use of any choice you can make. <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/7/14/15963544/climate-change-individual-choices" target="_blank">Choosing to bicycle instead of drive comes in as the second biggest impact</a> even though it is a fraction of not having a child.<br /><br />So if you are so inclined, you can both help save the world as well as save yourself a lot of money that you can use for other things by not having kids and not having cars. Hope this makes you think a bit. Thanks!</div>Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-75548579041450772812020-07-20T09:50:00.012-07:002021-02-19T15:48:21.949-08:0034 Reasons Why<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We all like to accomplish more for less thus the popularity of “Kill 2 Birds With One Stone”.<br />
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What if there was a simple action you could take to accomplish <b>34 things all at the same time</b> (and save dozens of birds)? Would you jump at the chance? I hope so!<br />
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You can accomplish 34 beneficial things just by bicycling (instead of using a motor vehicle):<br />
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<li>Increase happiness - it’s fun!</li><li>Reduce climate change from fossil fuel C02 AND fossil methane.</li><li>Reduce road congestion.</li>
<li>Reduce road repair.</li>
<li>Reduce space needed for roads.</li>
<li>Reduce space needed for parking.</li>
<li>Reduce your taxes. </li>
<li>Reduce other people’s taxes.</li>
<li>Reduce insurance costs.</li>
<li>Reduce transportation purchase costs.</li>
<li>Reduce transportation maintenance costs.</li>
<li>Reduce transportation fuel costs.</li>
<li>Reduce registration & licensing costs.</li>
<li>Reduce obesity & waistlines.</li>
<li>Reduce health care costs.</li>
<li>Reduce health insurance costs.</li>
<li>Reduce people dying from motor vehicle crashes.</li>
<li>Reduce animals (and birds!) dying from motor vehicle crashes.</li>
<li>Reduce property damage from motor vehicle crashes.</li>
<li>Reduce air pollution from burning fuel.</li>
<li>Reduce particulate pollution from brake and tire wear.</li>
<li>Reduce noise pollution.</li>
<li>Reduce waste & trash.</li>
<li>Reduce resource consumption (cars take tons of resources compared to bikes).</li>
<li>Say “Hi!” to more people -- meeting your neighbors and others.</li><li>Be in touch with nature.</li>
<li>Exercise and live longer.</li>
<li>Improve mental health.</li>
<li>Get free drugs - exercise endorphins are wonderful!</li>
<li>Enjoy food more. Ride to eat, eat to ride.</li>
<li>Increase safety.</li>
<li>Increase equity. Everyone benefits from bicycling, from the poorest to the richest regardless of race, religion, or creed.</li>
<li>Save our world.</li>
<li>Get you where you need to go.</li>
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Bicycling is the safest and most efficient form of transportation known to man. By bicycling instead of driving a car for a lifetime, a typical American can save about <a href="https://bicycleuniverse.com/car-free-millionaire/">$1,000,000</a> (in 2020 dollars).<br />
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So what do you say? Are you ready to bicycle?<br />
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Just hop on your bike and do it! Need to carry stuff? Pop it on your bike or get a bike trailer.<br />
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I can carry about <b>twice</b> as much stuff with my bike than I can in a Subaru Forester.<br />
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For examples of how others carry a lot with their bikes, check out what some customers of <a href="https://www.bikesatwork.com/bike-trailers/customers">Bikes At Work</a> haul around.<br />
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Also support your local bicycle coalition (like <a href="https://bikesiliconvalley.org/">Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition</a>), your state bicycle coalition (like <a href="https://www.calbike.org/">Calbike</a>), and national organizations (like <a href="https://www.bikeleague.org/">League of American Bicyclists</a>) that make <b>bicycling safer for everyone everywhere all the time in any weather</b>. Donating to bicycling nonprofits is one of the most efficient ways to save our world -- by enabling more people to bicycle safely and accomplish these 34 wins.<br />
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Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-8731321739848298762020-04-23T23:29:00.000-07:002020-04-27T13:15:29.824-07:00Zero Waste Ways to Avoid COVID-19<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sun Tzu’s The Art of War: “<b>Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a thousand battles without disaster.</b>"<br />
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Enemy #1 these days is COVID-19. While it is very contagious, <b>we know quite a bit about COVID-19 and this can help us determine zero waste ways to defeat it</b> in the thousands of battles we face over the coming months and possibly years.<br />
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What we know <b>about our enemy</b>:<br />
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<li>Soap and water kill it in ~20 seconds and this works better than hand sanitizers.</li>
<li>Sitting on porous surfaces for 1 day at room temperature kills it.</li>
<li>Sitting on plastic or stainless steel for 3 days at room temperature kills it.</li>
<li>It can last in the air for a few hours but then it dies.</li>
<li>Dilution works against COVID-19 as the number of viruses (“troops”) landing on you matters. That is why being outside is so safe if we maintain distance - our huge atmosphere blows it away and dilutes it so it dies off before it can land on anyone else. Indoors near others is much more dangerous.</li>
<li>Higher temperatures kill it. At 56C (133F) coronavirus lasts only 15 minutes. Higher temperatures (like from cooking) kill it even faster.</li>
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We also need to know ourselves. The human body is amazing and has many defenses even if we may not have antibodies for COVID-19 yet.<br />
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What we know <b>about ourselves</b>:<br />
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<li>Our skin naturally kills viruses and COVID-19 cannot penetrate unbroken skin. It needs to get inside us through our eyes, nose, or mouth.</li>
<li>Nose hair helps stop particles from entering our body.</li>
<li>Mucous (snot) traps and kills viruses.</li>
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All those disposable masks and gloves many of us see littering parking lots are a waste of money and resources when there are good zero waste alternatives (using the above information) to greatly reduce the chances of us getting COVID-19.<br />
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<li><b>Physical distance!</b></li>
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<li>This is the most important thing to do and is emphasized by public health officials. People are where the virus breeds. Touching others, touching shared surfaces, or being near others is the greatest risk. Dilution matters -- the fewer enemy troops on you the better. This is an easy zero wastes step.</li>
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<li><b>Reusable cotton face mask!</b></li>
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<li>While <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/diy-cloth-face-coverings.html">simple washable face masks</a> only slightly impede the virus from getting to you, they greatly reduce the chance of you giving the virus to others. Your face mask stops many droplets from your mouth going out into the air around you and onto surfaces. So if people near you wear masks over their mouth AND nose, this is fantastic and we protect each other! Since your face mask is really for protecting *others* there is no need for you to use a disposable one. Just keep yours and wash it periodically.</li>
<li>Disposable N95 masks (which are very hard to use correctly) and surgical masks are not needed by regular citizens and should be saved for health care workers who really do need them as they work in much more dangerous environments.</li>
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<li><b>A jacket and winter gloves!</b></li>
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<li>Gloves can protect you from getting COVID-19 on your skin and then into your eyes, nose, or mouth but you need to handle the gloves correctly for this to work.</li>
<li>Start by wearing a jacket and winter or other stiff gloves and then stuffing your hands into your jacket pockets. Take your gloves off while still in the pockets by squeezing through your jacket from inside each pocket so you can pull the glove off while keeping it in your pocket. To put the gloves back on, jam your hands back into your gloves while not touching the outside of your gloves. Winter gloves are easier to get on and off as they are stiff and not flimsy. No need to disinfect the gloves as they just stay in your jacket pockets and the virus dies in a day if they are cloth gloves or 3 days if they are plastic. Plus dilution works in your favor as not much gets transferred to the gloves or from the gloves. If you want to disinfect your gloves and jacket more quickly, just wash them with your regular laundry. Laundry detergents and water are very effective at cleaning and disinfecting.</li>
<li>You must pay close attention to what you touch with your gloves -- this is real work. Only use your gloves to touch surfaces other people touch. Do not use your gloves to touch your phone, face, face mask, or other surfaces you touch with your hands. You must be very mindful when wearing gloves and masks.</li>
<li>When you go out to do essential business, pop your jacket on with the gloves in your pockets and you are all set to pop them on to open doors, push grocery carts, etc. Just remember to take one off to touch your phone and don’t touch your face with your gloves! And store your face mask in a different pocket from your gloves.</li>
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<li><b>Wash your hands regularly!</b></li>
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<li>Even if you take the above precautions, it is very important to wash your hands regularly with soap and water in case some virus snuck past your defenses.</li>
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<li><b>Put things in quarantine and just wait.</b></li>
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<li>If you are super paranoid about the virus on items you have bought or are shipped to you, just put them in a place where they will be undisturbed for 3 days at room temperature and then they should be virus free. Time and temperature do your disinfection work for you in a zero waste way. If items need refrigeration or freezing and are washable then you can wash them off before storing them. Fresh produce can just be stored and then rinsed off with water before you eat it. Don’t use soap on produce because produce absorbs soap and the soap gets inside you when you eat it and that’s not good - rinsing with clean water is good enough. Cooking (high temperature) also makes food safe.</li>
<li>Note that when shopping the virus gets diluted multiple times because most items you buy are not handled much by many people, not that much lands on any given surface, even less gets picked up onto a glove, and much less gets transferred from the glove back to other surfaces. Many experts have pointed out that what you buy in stores is pretty safe without further measures. But a quarantine will do the trick if you want to be super careful.</li>
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Being as zero waste as possible will save you money and save us all from the disasters coming after COVID-19. Human's over consumption of resources endangers our future existence. For more see <a href="https://www.zerow.org/">ZeroW.org</a>. Thanks for reading!<br />
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<b>References</b><br />
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Knowing our enemy:<br />
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<li>Soap/detergents and water kill it in ~20 seconds and this works better than hand sanitizers.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/cleaning-disinfection.html">https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/cleaning-disinfection.html</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/when-how-handwashing.html">https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/when-how-handwashing.html</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/cleaning/common-household-products-that-can-destroy-novel-coronavirus/">https://www.consumerreports.org/cleaning/common-household-products-that-can-destroy-novel-coronavirus/</a></li>
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<li>Sitting on porous surfaces for 1 day at room temperature kills it</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/04/how-long-does-coronavirus-live-on-different-surfaces">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/04/how-long-does-coronavirus-live-on-different-surfaces</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973?query=featured_home">https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973?query=featured_home</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/well/live/coronavirus-contagion-spead-clothes-shoes-hair-newspaper-packages-mail-infectious.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/well/live/coronavirus-contagion-spead-clothes-shoes-hair-newspaper-packages-mail-infectious.html</a></li>
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<li>Sitting on plastic or stainless steel for 3 days at room temperature kills it.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973?query=featured_home">https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973?query=featured_home</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses#">https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses#</a></li>
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<li>It can last in the air for a few hours but then it dies.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973?query=featured_home">https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973?query=featured_home</a></li>
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<li>Dilution works against COVID-19 as the number of viruses (“troops”) landing on you matters.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/does-the-amount-of-covid-19-virus-you-are-exposed-to-determine-how-sick-you-ll-get">https://www.sciencealert.com/does-the-amount-of-covid-19-virus-you-are-exposed-to-determine-how-sick-you-ll-get</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/sars-cov-2-viral-load-and-the-severity-of-covid-19/">https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/sars-cov-2-viral-load-and-the-severity-of-covid-19/</a></li>
<li>Rinsing produce off is sufficient - <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses">https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses</a></li>
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<li>Higher temperatures kill it. At 56C (133F) coronavirus lasts only 15 minutes. Higher temperatures (like from cooking) kill it even faster.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.who.int/csr/sars/survival_2003_05_04/en/">https://www.who.int/csr/sars/survival_2003_05_04/en/</a></li>
</ol>
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Knowing ourselves:<br />
<ol>
<li>Our skin naturally kills viruses and COVID-19 cannot penetrate unbroken skin. It needs to get inside us through our eyes, nose, or mouth.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/getting-workplace-ready-for-covid-19.pdf">https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/getting-workplace-ready-for-covid-19.pdf</a></li>
</ol>
<li>Nose hair helps stop particles from entering your body.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/nose-hair-removal">https://www.healthline.com/health/nose-hair-removal</a></li>
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<li>Mucous (snot) traps and kills viruses.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.immunology.org/public-information/immunology-related-activities-and-resources/the-secret-life-snot">https://www.immunology.org/public-information/immunology-related-activities-and-resources/the-secret-life-snot</a></li>
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<li>Safety of shopping:</li>
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<li>“There is no evidence that food or food packaging has been linked to getting sick from COVID-19.”</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/essential-goods-services.html">https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/essential-goods-services.html</a></li>
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<li>Don’t use soap on produce, just rinse with water.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.foodnetwork.com/healthyeats/healthy-tips/2020/03/how-to-wash-your-produce">https://www.foodnetwork.com/healthyeats/healthy-tips/2020/03/how-to-wash-your-produce</a></li>
</ol>
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Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-35089655148129799892019-11-29T08:53:00.000-08:002019-11-29T08:53:33.540-08:00Yes we can solve our climate emergency!We humans are facing a climate emergency of our own making. On top of that mankind is consuming about twice as much resources as our earth can sustainably provide each year - look up Earth Overshoot Day.<br />
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If every household with incomes equal to or greater than mine did what my household has done, we would no longer have a climate emergency. My house is now fully electric with all of its electricity from solar and a bit of wind (no fossil fuels). Our transportation is almost entirely by bicycle and electric car. Our household trash is down to about a quart a month.<br />
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We count ourselves blessed to have everything we need to live comfortably. My household and others like us have shown that yes we can live well and still be responsible custodians of our world. We've cut our carbon and trash waste to less than a hundredth of what it was just 10 years ago.<br />
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If mankind does not choose to reduce its resource consumption dramatically by either living much more economically or halving the world's current population (!!!), our kids will find that nature is a harsh mistress -- she will force it on them and it won't be pretty. In the end, all equations must balance.<br />
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To avoid a disaster for our kids, the onus is on those who are well off (like my household and most of you reading this) to make the difference that will save our world. The wealthy have the luxury to choose to save our world. It is not possible for the poor as they are struggling to survive and just not using that much in resources anyway.<br />
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Do your part, go zero waste, bike instead of drive, and eliminate your fossil fuel use. It is very doable. We and others have done it and you can too. We need EVERYONE who is well off to do what we have already done.<br />
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Thanks for reading, caring, and doing what it takes to save our world. Our kids are counting on us.<br />
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For more on how to go zero waste, please see <a href="https://www.zerow.org/">https://www.ZeroW.org</a> or other zero waste resources. Thanks!Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-4752728033454544292019-02-10T12:55:00.002-08:002020-02-07T10:28:26.029-08:00Super Easy Basic Recipes <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are some recipes for some basic staples we use frequently. These recipes were adapted and customized from many different sources and our own experience. You may copy and adopt these freely, no license or permission required. You may credit me only if you wish.</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm posting these recipes all at once because I'm about to undertake a 3 month bicycle journey across the US to talk with people from coast to coast from San Francisco to Boston about oceans, plastic, climate change, and kids. For more about this ride please see <a href="https://www.zerow.org/">ZeroW.org</a>. My wife was not up for this long a ride and needed these recipes while I'm traveling :-)</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Super Easy Syrup</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We use this basic syrup on pancakes, waffles, and to make granola.</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ingredients:</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 cup water</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2 cups granulated sugar (white or unrefined)</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 tablespoon molasses</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 tablespoon maple flavored extract</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Directions:</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bring the water, sugar, and molasses to a boil in a saucepan over medium-high heat.</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Take off heat and stir in the maple extract. </span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let cool until no longer hot.</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Store in a sealed glass mason jar in refrigerator (needs refrigeration since it does not contain preservatives like store purchased varieties). Usually good for a month or two.</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Super Easy Granola</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ingredients:</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 cup slivered almonds</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 cup cashews</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 cup walnuts or pecans</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 cup shredded or chipped coconut</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3 cups rolled oats</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1-2 tablespoons of cinnamon</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 teaspoon salt if none of the nuts are salted</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/2 cup dark brown sugar</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/4 cup vegetable oil (olive oil preferred) + oil for sheet pans</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/2 cup syrup</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 tablespoon vanilla</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 cup raisins</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Directions:</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Preheat oven to 275 degrees F.</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a large bowl, mix all the dry ingredients except the raisins.</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a small 1 qt bowl, mix all the liquid ingredients. </span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mix together both mixtures in the large bowl.</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pour dollop of oil on each of 2 sheet pans and spread evenly</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pour mixed ingredients onto the sheet pans. Bake for 45 minutes.</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remove from oven, stir with plastic spatula to loosen from sheet pans, cool, mix in raisins, and transfer to storage containers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Super Easy Vanilla Ice Cream and Chocolate Syrup</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We love ice cream but hate the plastic or plasticized cardboard that commercial ice cream and chocolate syrup come in, so now we are making both ourselves! We did buy an ice cream maker (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006ONQOC/) and cringed at the styrofoam it was packed in, but it makes hundreds of gallons of ice cream 2 quarts at a time preventing hundreds of single use ice cream containers that are trash.</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The recurring trash we currently are left with:</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. The plastic tops from the reusable Straus Family Creamery organic heavy cream and milk bottles we buy</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Plastic cocoa powder pouches. Once 16 oz pouch is good for about a gallon of chocolate syrup</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Everything else is reusable or recyclable: </span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Straus Family Creamery bottles get returned to the store for reuse.</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recyclable vanilla extract container (we buy the quart size clear artificial vanilla - much cheaper than real and close enough in taste for our uses).</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recyclable sugar & salt paper packaging.</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We bought a 2nd ice cream freezing container so we can make 2 batches of ice cream back to back and reuse our mixing bowl and utensils without washing them. This results in about 1 gallon (4 quarts) of ice cream.</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Super Easy Vanilla Ice Cream</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ingredients:</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2 cups (1 pint container) organic heavy cream</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 to 1.5 cups organic milk</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2/3 cups organic granulated sugar</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/2 teaspoon kosher salt (or to taste)</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 tablespoon vanilla extract</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Directions:</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whisk or stir all ingredients together in mixing bowl until sugar is dissolved. (I pour the milk into the pint heavy cream container to wash it out a bit and to use that container as my measuring “cup” -- filling it about 1/2 to 3/4 full).</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pour into ice cream maker following its directions.</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let churn for ~20 minutes, will be soft serve consistency.</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 cup organic cocoa powder</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 cup organic granulated sugar</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/2 teaspoon kosher salt (or to taste)</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 cup cold water</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 tablespoon vanilla extract</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a medium saucepan, whisk together the cocoa powder, sugar, salt (if desired). Whisk in the water and whisk over medium heat until boiling, stirring constantly.</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Continue boiling 3 – 4 minutes. The mixture may still be thin (it thickens more once cool). </span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remove from heat and whisk in the vanilla. Cool.</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Store syrup in an airtight glass container in the refrigerator. The syrup should keep, refrigerated, for about a month.</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We used to buy our dog treats but we switched to making our own to eliminate plastic bag and container waste. We do still buy our dog food in large 30 lbs plastic bags but are searching for a place to buy dog food in bulk in our own containers. We reuse the dog food bags as strong waterproof bags to carry stuff in our steel bicycle baskets. Turning them inside out makes them all white on the outside plus the little grease still stuck to the bag is then on the outside and the printed cleaner side is on the inside. These bags are tough and by folding over the tops and clipping with a binder clip they keep everything dry even in a heavy rain -- almost as good as expensive camping dry bags.</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Super Easy Dog Treats #1</span></b></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Makes about 3 liters (~1600) treats.</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5 cups whole wheat flour</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4 eggs</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 can of pumpkin (15 oz can)</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4 tablespoons peanut butter</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 teaspoon salt</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 teaspoon ground cinnamon</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stir together the flour, eggs, pumpkin, peanut butter, salt, and cinnamon in a large bowl. </span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Add a little water if needed to make dough workable, but dough should be dry and stiff. </span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Roll dough into a rectangular ~1/4-inch-thick sheet on a large floured surface.</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sheet should end up being about 20"x20" or so, no need to be exact.</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Using a rolling pizza cutter slice into narrow strips about 1/2" wide.</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then slice again at right angle to cut into 1/2" squares.</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Using large rectangular metal spatula, transfer sliced dough onto 2 large cooking sheets - no need to separate but needs to be single layer. </span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bake in oven until crisp, about 40 minutes. </span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remove from oven and allow to cool completely. </span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Store in an airtight container (freeze what you cannot use in a few months).</span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can break the treats apart after baking them or as you use them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Makes about 1.5 liters (~400) treats</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2 cups rolled oats<br />1 tablespoon granular chicken bullion<br />1 egg<br />1/2 cup water<br />Vegetable oil to grease sheet pans</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Preheat oven to 325 degrees. <br />Add 2 cups oats and bullion to medium mixing bowl. Using big spoon mix well. Mix in water and egg. <br />Using big spoon press to 1/4-inch thick sheet on inside of mixing bowl. Let stand a few minutes to firm up. <br />Meanwhile pour dollop of oil and spread evenly on 2 cooking sheets. <br />Using 2 tiny spoons, scoop tiny portions of mixture onto cooking sheets (ours are usually about 1/2 inch in diameter)<br />Bake for 15-20 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely. <br />Store in an airtight container (freeze if you need to store for longer than a couple months).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Given my experience with recipe #1, it is possible that #2 could be done in the same fashion using a pizza cutter but I have not tried this yet -- the dough is wetter & stickier for #2.</span><br />
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Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0Sunnyvale, CA, USA37.36883 -122.036349637.1669945 -122.35907309999999 37.570665500000004 -121.7136261tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-66512418173690374972018-07-19T12:05:00.003-07:002018-07-19T13:17:53.349-07:00The LinkedIn data breach from 2012 lives on...<div class="mentions-texteditor__content" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
The scam email (below) that I just received this morning is a great reason to use LastPass or any other reputable password safe so you can have a unique password for each and every account. I have somewhere around 800 different online accounts.</div>
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The person behind this email is trying to blackmail me. </div>
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<a href="https://haveibeenpwned.com/">https://haveibeenpwned.com/</a> helped me locate which accounts associated with "tim@oey.us" username/email have had known hacks with the data sold.</div>
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"LinkedIn: In May 2016, LinkedIn had 164 million email addresses and passwords exposed. Originally hacked in 2012, the data remained out of sight until being offered for sale on a dark market site 4 years later. The passwords in the breach were stored as SHA1 hashes without salt, the vast majority of which were quickly cracked in the days following the release of the data." (information from <a href="https://haveibeenpwned.com/">https://haveibeenpwned.com/</a> )</div>
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See also: <a href="https://www.troyhunt.com/observations-and-thoughts-on-the-linkedin-data-breach/">https://www.troyhunt.com/observations-and-thoughts-on-the-linkedin-data-breach/</a></div>
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Thanks to LastPass's password history I traced the old password they included in the subject line to one I used a long time ago with LinkedIn around 2012. Luckily I changed it shortly thereafter to a weird and unique one that LastPass generated.</div>
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Now all my passwords are 20-36+ in length and random characters including upper/lowercase, numbers, and special characters.</div>
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Stay safe out there. There are a lot of scammers. Please also practice safe-computing to keep your computer free of key loggers and other malware.</div>
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P.S. Here are some other related articles on this latest porn scam:</div>
<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901960784313726);"><a href="https://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/extortion-phish-your-password-is-xxxx/">https://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/extortion-phish-your-password-is-xxxx/</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #a00031;"><a href="https://www.techlicious.com/blog/is-the-porn-blackmail-scam-real/comments-/CP2/">https://www.techlicious.com/blog/is-the-porn-blackmail-scam-real/comments-/CP2/</a></span><br />
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From: Jules Denney <rlhramondawoq outlook.com=""></rlhramondawoq></div>
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Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 6:01 AM</div>
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Subject: tim - xxxxOldPasswordxxxx</div>
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To: "tim@oey.us" <tim oey.us=""></tim></div>
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Lets get directly to the purpose. Nobody has compensated me to check you. You don't know me and you're most likely thinking why you are getting this mail?</div>
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In fact, I placed a software on the X videos (porno) site and guess what, you visited this site to have fun (you know what I mean). While you were viewing videos, your internet browser started working as a Remote Desktop with a key logger which provided me access to your screen and also web cam. Immediately after that, my software program collected your entire contacts from your Messenger, social networks, and e-mailaccount. Next I created a double video. 1st part displays the video you were viewing (you've got a good taste lmao), and next part displays the recording of your webcam, yeah it is you.</div>
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There are a pair of solutions. Shall we go through the choices in aspects:</div>
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1st choice is to dismiss this message. Consequently, I am going to send your video clip to almost all of your contacts and just consider about the disgrace you will get. Not to mention should you be in a romantic relationship, how it would affect?</div>
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Number two alternative should be to give me $3000. We will think of it as a donation. As a result, I most certainly will right away discard your video footage. You could continue your daily life like this never happened and you are never going to hear back again from me.</div>
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You'll make the payment through Bitcoin (if you do not know this, search for "how to buy bitcoin" in Google).</div>
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BTC Address to send to: 1FPnorw1FMy3sMfuJ3gF3A4BVNTMjU47G8</div>
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Should you are planning on going to the police, anyway, this mail can not be traced back to me. I have dealt with my steps. I am also not attempting to ask you for money a huge amount, I simply prefer to be compensated. You now have one day in order to make the payment. I have a special pixel in this mail, and right now I know that you have read through this email. If I do not get the BitCoins, I will definately send out your video recording to all of your contacts including members of your family, co-workers, etc. Nevertheless, if I do get paid, I will destroy the video immidiately. This is the non-negotiable offer and so do not waste my time & yours by replying to this e-mail. If you need evidence, reply Yes! & I will certainly send your video to your 8 friends.</div>
Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-30337562011547465022018-05-15T08:52:00.002-07:002018-05-15T10:03:19.222-07:00I Give A Crap :-)<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've tried many toilet paper options to minimize waste and harmful impacts to our environment and the best compromise I've found are the toilet papers from Who Gives A Crap - a good balance of quality, affordability, and </span>environmental<span style="font-family: inherit;"> friendliness. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Plus their toilet paper rolls are very entertaining! It's great to get a smile or a laugh or 2 in unexpected places.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />If you would like to try them, here is a referral link <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.talkable.com/x/MruQEZ">https://www.talkable.com/x/MruQEZ</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks and enjoy!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-5087334104853780952018-01-07T12:33:00.001-08:002018-01-07T12:33:52.373-08:00You Can Haul a Christmas Tree by BikeThis post is a bit late but better late than never. Yes you can haul a Christmas tree by bike although it helps to have a trailer when you do.<br />
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<br />Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-46483106978478206192018-01-07T12:17:00.001-08:002018-01-07T12:17:54.417-08:00Dogs Welcome to Poop In Front of Our HouseYes dogs are welcome to poop in front of our house as long as the owner scoops the poop and leaves it at our dog poop station. No need to carry the smelly poop with you. :-)<br />
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We empty the scoop as needed into our zero waste dog poop handling facility as documented at:<br />
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Happy New Year!<br />
<br />Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-88082358867425439392017-10-31T20:03:00.000-07:002017-10-31T20:03:59.900-07:00Zero Waste Halloween Treats<div style="text-align: center;">
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Halloween is quite a challenge for zero wasters with many unhealthy treats packaged in wrappers that are difficult to reuse or recycle. So instead our household prepares our own treats in compostable/recyclable food grade wax envelopes. We also staple a note to each one so the recipient knows exactly what they are getting, where it came from, and how to properly reuse/recycle the note and packaging. And we have a nonfood option as well for kids who have food allergies.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks for stopping at our house! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This year we are giving out non-food treats (worry stone and $1 for your college fund) or organic food treats for you to savor (cashews, dark chocolate almonds, or raisins) all packaged in compostable wax paper bags.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reduce, reuse, recycle!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reduce -- We need to conserve our world’s limited resources. Treats are extra special when you get just a little. So take it slow and easy and savor every little bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reuse -- Please reuse this printed paper and the waxed paper bag. Reuse conserves resources and minimizes trash. If you don’t want the treats we’ve given you, we’re sure your parents would love them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recycle -- If you cannot reuse this paper or plastic bag, please recycle / compost / food cycle them (paper into paper recycling bin, bag into compost / food cycle bin). Please dispose of everything in the proper place to keep our world safe and clean. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trash Nothing -- Unfortunately most regular candy wrappers cannot be reused or recycled and just end up as trash. Much of this trash goes into our streams and ocean -- killing wildlife and eventually getting back into our own food -- yuck! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To learn a few simple ways to take better care of our world, see: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more advanced tips on how to go zero waste, see:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please take care of yourself and our world, you are precious and deserve the very best!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tim & Pat Oey</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Allison Way</span></div>
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Here is a picture of our sidewalk sign outside our house:<br />
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Our front porch:<br />
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The treats we purchased in bulk in our own packaging:<br />
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The note we printed and cut up (2 sided):<br />
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And the treats all ready to hand out:<br />
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In the past we have also given out mandarin oranges and homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. For more about nonfood options, please see the <a href="https://www.foodallergy.org/education-awareness/teal-pumpkin-project">Teal Pumpkin Project</a>.<br />
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We hope you all had a great Halloween and will try zero waste options in the future!Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-42089824418848120362017-10-14T13:06:00.000-07:002018-07-13T13:32:08.386-07:00Great service and reducing plastic waste at Safeway!<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the face of great "can do" customer service as well as sustainability. This is Vince the meat manager of the Safeway at 20620 W Homestead Rd, Cupertino, CA 95014. Vince can tare your container (so you only pay for the contents) and put any of their meats into it that otherwise would go into their store packaging. Please bring your own clean container and say hi to him at the butcher counter and thank him for reducing disposable plastic waste. Thanks!<br /><br />BTW, in case you get someone not as experienced as Vince at the butcher counter, here is what they need to do to enter the tare for your container (the order here is important):</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Weigh container first to establish its weight</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Take container off scale</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Enter product code</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hit tare button twice in upper left corner of keypad and then enter the tare weight obtained in step 1</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Put container on scale</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Notice correct tare and net total weight at or very near zero</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Put product in container</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Print label and apply to container</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Notice that correct tare is also printed on label</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can buy any of Safeway's meats this way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BTW, at Zanotto's the process is simpler:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Enter product code first</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Put empty container on scale</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Press tare button</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Add product to container</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Print label and apply to container.</span></li>
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1 cup - Organic Unrefined Sugar (instead of brown sugar)<br />
1 tbsp - Organic Molasses (instead of brown sugar)<br />
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1 cup - Olive Oil (instead of butter, my current favorite is California Olive Ranch Extra Virgin)<br />
2 tbsp -Water (instead of butter)<br />
(Alternatively use 1 cup of softened organic butter)<br />
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2 tsp - Vanilla Extract (either natural or artificial)<br />
2 - Large Organic Eggs<br />
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2 cups - Organic Rolled Oats<br />
1 1/2 cups - Organic Whole Wheat Flour<br />
1 tsp - Baking Powder, Double-acting, Sodium Aluminum Sulfate<br />
1 tsp - Ground Cinnamon<br />
1/2 tsp - Salt<br />
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12 ounces (0.75 lbs) - Organic Chocolate Chips, Semi-Sweet<br />
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Optional: Also add some pecans or walnuts, up to 1 cup.<br />
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Preheat oven to 350°F.<br />
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A stand or other electric mixer works best. Otherwise this is very, very good exercise for your arm. In a large bowl mix sugar and molasses until well blended (this turns it into brown sugar, it takes quite a lot of mixing to evenly distribute the molasses). Add oil and mix. Add water, vanilla, eggs and mix. Add flour, oats, baking powder, cinnamon, salt. Mix until well blended. Add chocolate chips (and optionally pecans) and mix until evenly distributed.<br />
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Drop tablespoons of cookie dough 1.5 inches apart onto baking sheets (greasing with a light coat of olive oil is optional). Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.<br />
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Let stand on baking sheets for ~2-4 minutes before scraping cookies off baking sheet with spatula. Put on racks or plates to cool if desired.<br />
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Makes about 48 cookies.<br />
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The sugar, flour, oats, chocolate chips, pecans, salt, and cinnamon can be purchased from Whole Foods and possibly other supermarkets in bulk (bring your own container if possible to eliminate disposable packaging -- alternatively flour and sugar are typically sold in recyclable paper). Whole Foods and some other supermarkets also sell molasses in glass containers and 3 liter California Olive Ranch Extra Virgin Olive Oil (or other olive oils) in metal containers. Even if you don't use organic ingredients for some or all of the above, it still is very healthy and minimizes trash. Double check to make sure the olive oil you are buying is really olive oil as <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/olive-oil-fake-larry-olmsted-food-fraud-usda">many commercial brands have mixed in cheaper oils</a>.<br />
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Copyright 2017 Tim Oey. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</a> or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-14298659907772691202017-03-25T07:00:00.000-07:002017-03-25T07:00:23.297-07:00My favorite easy whole wheat waffle recipeWhy buy frozen waffles when you can make your own fresh ones or freeze them yourself? Plus in addition to these being zero-waste, they are healthier for you too. Here is my favorite easy whole wheat waffle recipe:<br />
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Ingredients:<br />
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<li>1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour</li>
<li>2 teaspoons baking powder</li>
<li>1/2 teaspoon salt</li>
<li>2 tablespoons sugar</li>
<li>1 large egg</li>
<li>1 1/2 cups lukewarm milk</li>
<li>1/3 cup vegetable oil</li>
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<li>Preheat waffle iron while making the waffle batter.</li>
<li>Whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar.</li>
<li>In a separate bowl, whisk together the egg, milk, and oil.</li>
<li>Mix together the wet and dry ingredients, stirring just until combined. The batter may be a bit lumpy.</li>
<li>Cook the waffles as directed in the instructions that came with your waffle iron. For my Cuisinart waffle maker I cook until the steam mostly stops.</li>
<li>Yield: 6 round standard 6.5" waffles or 3 round deep-pocket Belgian-style 7" waffles.</li>
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I get my whole wheat flour, sugar, and salt in bulk in my own reusable containers from Whole Foods but even from a regular grocery store they are usually packed in paper which is pretty close to zero waste. I currently use California Olive Ranch extra virgin olive oil as my main oil -- grown and made in California near where I live and certified to be real olive oil (many other olive oils have been shown to be falsely labeled, google around for the latest on this). My baking powder is just from a local supermarket. My eggs and milk are usually organic from a local supermarket or a farmers market. While I can get milk in glass bottles it is somewhat more expensive and pretty heavy/fragile so I usually get standard milk containers that I recycle. Paper egg cartons can be recycled/composted or reused if you get eggs from a farmers market as I sometimes do.<br />
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Enjoy!Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-45966855305106869922017-03-23T07:00:00.000-07:002017-10-14T13:02:31.274-07:00Why buy syrup when you can make it?Here is a super easy and tasty syrup recipe. I use this syrup on pancakes and waffles and as an ingredient to my favorite granola recipe. It is much cheaper than store bought commercial syrup and has zero high fructose corn syrup. While I love natural maple syrup, it is extremely expensive and uses a lot of fossil fuel to ship it to where I live.<br />
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Ingredients:<br />
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<li>1 cup water</li>
<li>2 cups granulated sugar (white or unrefined)</li>
<li>1 tablespoon molasses</li>
<li>1 tablespoon maple flavored extract</li>
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<li>Take off heat and stir in the maple extract. </li>
<li>Let cool until no longer hot.</li>
<li>Store in a sealed glass mason jar in refrigerator (since it does not contain preservatives like store purchased varieties).</li>
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I buy my sugar in bulk in my own reusable container from Whole Foods. However, even from a regular grocery store, white sugar is usually packaged in paper. This greatly reduces the disposable plastic from buying syrup in plastic bottles. The least expensive high quality maple flavored extract I've found was at https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B008OGD194 but availability varies.<br />
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Enjoy!Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-92220589857932358462017-03-21T13:42:00.000-07:002017-03-21T13:42:11.372-07:00After a break, I'm back. And retired!<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">2016 was busy, hectic, and I ran out of time to post on this blog. However, after working at </span><a href="http://www.harvard.edu/" style="color: #551a8b;">Harvard University</a><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankBoston" style="color: #551a8b;">Bank of Boston</a><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><a href="http://www.fidelity.com/" style="color: #551a8b;">Fidelity Investments</a><span style="background-color: white;">,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.apple.com/" style="color: #551a8b;">Apple Computer</a><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><a href="http://www.sun.com/" style="color: #551a8b;">Sun Microsystems</a><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><a href="http://www.adobe.com/" style="color: #551a8b;">Adobe Systems</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">and </span><a href="http://www.silverspringnet.com/" style="color: #551a8b;">Silver Spring Networks</a><span style="background-color: white;"> (all world class companies), I decided to retire early at the end of 2016.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">To spend more time with my wife, family, </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">friends,</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> dogs, reading, writing, and outdoor activities.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> We'll rarely remember how great it was to work late, but we'll always remember the great times we had with family and friends.<br /></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To do more to make our world a better place by helping:</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Community: <span style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/" style="color: #551a8b;">City of Sunnyvale</a>, <a href="http://heritageparkmuseum.org/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #551a8b;">Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent;">, <a href="http://www.svcommunityservices.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">Sunnyvale Community Services</a>, <a href="http://www.svpc.us/" style="color: #551a8b;">Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church</a>, my neighborhood association, politicians who prioritize science, environment, health, education, children, housing, equal rights, truth, and justice</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Kids: </span><a href="http://ayso.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">American Youth Soccer Organization</a>, <a href="https://www.bemyadvocate.org/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #551a8b;">Child Advocates of Silicon Valley</a>, <a href="https://centralasiainstitute.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">Central Asia Institute</a>, <a href="http://www.positivecoach.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">Positive Coaching Alliance</a>, local public schools.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Environment: <a href="http://www.zerow.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">Zero Waste</a>, </span> <span style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://stevenscreektrail.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">Friends of Stevens Creek Trail</a>, <a href="https://bikesiliconvalley.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent;">, <a href="http://grist.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">Grist</a>, </span><a href="http://freecycleforever.org/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #551a8b;">Freecycle Forever</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">, </span><a href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FreecycleSunnyvale/info" style="background-color: transparent; color: #551a8b;">Freecycle Sunnyvale</a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Science: <a href="https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">Monterey Bay Aquarium</a>, <a href="http://www.calacademy.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">California Academy of Sciences</a>, <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">Union of Concerned Scientists</a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Health: <a href="http://www.cancerresearch.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">Cancer Research Institute</a>, <a href="https://www.oxfamamerica.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">Oxfam America</a>, <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">Planned Parenthood</a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Education: <a href="http://www.harvard.edu/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #551a8b;">Harvard University</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">, </span><a href="http://www.kqed.org/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #551a8b;">KQED</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">, </span><a href="http://www.kdfc.com/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #551a8b;">KDFC</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">, <a href="http://montalvoarts.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">Montalvo Arts</a>, <a href="https://www.wikipedia.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="https://www.eff.org/" style="color: #551a8b;">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>.<br /></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Trump shock:</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I was shocked my country could elect someone so unqualified and harmful to the American values I hold dear: science, environment, health, education, children, equal rights, truth, justice, and professionalism. I realized that money was now less important to me than time and doing the right thing.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I chose to devote my professional skills and energy full time to make our world a better place rather than just making money -- to counter the evil in the Trump and Republican agenda. </span></li>
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Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-34676468148523646812016-05-10T18:00:00.000-07:002016-05-10T18:00:22.875-07:00Zero Waste Resource ListI'm maintaining a resource list of good books, websites, and blogs on my website at <a href="http://www.timoey.com/articles/zero-waste">http://www.timoey.com/articles/zero-waste</a>.<br />
<br />Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-35587784900512830312016-05-09T22:44:00.000-07:002016-05-09T22:44:41.934-07:00Current Progress: Trash to Curb Once Every 3 MonthsWhile I have not posted in a while, we have made excellent progress overall and it really has not been all that difficult to achieve either -- mainly forming new habits.<br />
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We take our green/blue recycling split cart toter (mixed paper on one side, glass/metal/plastic containers on the other) to the curb about once every two months -- used to be every two weeks like the trash toter but we have reduced our recycling as well as our trash stream since we are very focused on Reduce and Reuse.</div>
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Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-35077598266525447822016-02-15T10:26:00.002-08:002017-05-04T15:00:43.318-07:00BYOC - Bringing Your Own ContainerOne of the best ways to reduce waste is to bring your own clean reusable containers to stores. This post expands on my previous one <a href="http://ecopractice.blogspot.com/2016/01/no-more-disposable-plastic.html">No More Disposable Plastic!</a><br />
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Some places like farmers markets, butchers, <a href="http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/whole-story/get-your-green-whole-foods-market">Whole Foods</a>, Sprouts, Zanotto's, and <a href="http://www.starbucks.com/responsibility/global-report/environmental-stewardship/reusable-cups">Starbucks</a> understand the value of reusable containers (saves both them and you money, reduces waste, helps environment) but others do not yet. If we all keep pushing, this will become increasingly accepted.<br />
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While cardboard ice cream containers are compostable in some municipal composting programs (but not in home composting), composting them is still more waste than using a reusable container. Plus the cardboard ice cream containers do have some plastic in them.<br />
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I am currently waiting for responses from <a href="https://www.baskinrobbins.com/content/baskinrobbins/en.html">Baskin Robbins</a> and <a href="https://www.coldstonecreamery.com/">Cold Stone Creamery</a> to see if they will allow me to bring my own quart containers to their stores to get fresh packed ice cream. Cold Stone also makes its ice cream at their stores. I've had some shops say I could bring my own container while another said I couldn't. This ice cream is a about the same cost as Ben & Jerry ice cream and similar quality.<br />
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While I try to avoid plastic as much as possible, reusable polypropylene (#5 plastic) containers are my current favorites for shopping since they are inexpensive, light, nest compactly, do not break easily, can be frozen, recycle reasonably well when they do wear out, and are dishwasher safe. Glass is more recyclable but it is voluminous, heavy and breaks too easily. Stainless steel containers are very expensive and hard to find in the right sizes.<br />
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<a href="http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EG4TLG">Glad Entree 3-1/8 cups containers</a> -- They are square, compact, readily available at grocery stores, inexpensive, a great size for a sandwich or an individual portion for lunch or dinner or restaurant left overs. They also have a reasonably good seal. At Safeway they are listed as "disposable" but I've gotten about as many years of use from these as I have heavier plastic polypropylene containers.<br />
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<a href="https://smile.amazon.com/GladWare-CXC-048B-Square-Family-Size/dp/B00J5IOWPW">Glad Containers Family Size Square 13 cups</a> -- These are a larger version of the above and great for bulk foods (cereals, etc) as well as larger portions. They fit 3 pints of strawberries well when I visit the farmer's market. Prices for these at Safeway tend to be less than what Amazon charges.<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N2TADOY"><br /></a><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N2TADOY">Reditainer Extreme Freeze Deli Food Containers with Lids, 32-Ounce</a> -- a standard round quart size that seals and freezes well. I hope to use these when getting ice cream in the future.<br />
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5/9/2016 Update #2: California Food Code (a derivative of the US Food Code) explicitly allows consumers to bring their own containers to be refilled! Yay!<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.66px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Big win. No more disposables to manufacture, transport to me, and transport to dump/recycling. Washing uses a bit of energy but is sustainable.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.66px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Big win. No more disposable plastics clogging landfills or filling recycling/trash trucks. We already had space in our house for reusable containers.</span></div>
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So my household is eliminating our need for plastic bags and other disposable plastic. No more hard copy newspaper with its plastic bag (see my separate post about <a href="http://ecopractice.blogspot.com/2016/01/newspaper-waste-elimination-improvement.html">my newspaper</a>). No more disposable plastic grocery bags (thank you for the local plastic bag ban -- now we must make sure it becomes a reality for all of California!). No more produce bags. No more plastic bread bags. No more plastic garbage bags (see <a href="http://ecopractice.blogspot.com/2016/01/current-trash-run-rate-take-out-trash.html">http://ecopractice.blogspot.com/2016/01/current-trash-run-rate-take-out-trash.html</a>). No more cereal boxes with their plastic bags. No more frozen foods in plastic bags. No more styrofoam meat trays. No more plastic wrap. No more ziploc bags (except for the quart size reusable one we need for airline travel).</div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Big win! Only using reusables, no more trash or very little plastic recycling (which is really downcycling and has lots of side effects). The plastic containers I use are sold as "disposables" but I've used them for many years. Eventually they wear out and need to be recycled but they are polypropylene (plastic #5) which is one of the safest plastics (doesn't leach and generally easy to recycle).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.66px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Big win. No more disposables to manufacture, transport to me, and transport to dump/recycling. Washing uses a bit of energy but is sustainable.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.66px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freezing takes a lot of energy, now we are eating more fresh foods instead.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.66px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More local food that uses less energy to transport.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.66px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neutral once you change your habits. Just need to be prepared and have your reusables on hand. I visit the market more frequently but my shops are shorter. Plus gives me a chance to say hi to local neighbors too. I'm also now going to our local farmers market so I can even eliminate plastic twist ties often found on grocery produce.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.66px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Big win. No more disposable plastics clogging landfills or filling recycling/trash trucks. We already had space for reusable containers that we now can just use more.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.66px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overall seems to net out. Sometime costs a bit more to get fresh food vs packaged. But no more buying plastic bags and plastic wrap. As more people switch to it, bulk foods will end up cheaper as less waste will result in less cost.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.66px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>HUGE</b> win. Eliminating the need for plastic is really, really huge. Plastic survives hundreds of years and is poisoning our ocean and land as well as people as it comes back around in our food chain.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.66px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fresh local food is better for you and tastes better as well.</span></div>
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Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-54775454270208127342016-01-31T19:23:00.004-08:002016-01-31T19:25:04.854-08:00Newspaper Waste Elimination & ImprovementI'm a strong supporter of local news organizations -- they are critical for a community. However after a lifetime of enjoying a printed newspaper, I've kicked the paper habit. We no longer have a paper newspaper delivered along with its rubber band and (often) plastic bag.<br />
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Instead I now get an electronic edition on my Apple iPad each morning. The delivery interface has improved tremendously from the early days of e-publishing, it was a surprisingly pleasant switch. I really like the interface to the newspaper on my iPad:<br />
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<li>can still skim/see the whole page and its context (the resolution on the iPad is much better than the picture above),</li>
<li>tap on an article to read it in a bigger/easier/clearer font,</li>
<li>can zoom into pictures,</li>
<li>navigate easily and quickly to links,</li>
<li>quickly get to past editions as well as other Bay Area Newsgroup papers,</li>
<li>no longer need to worry about non-delivery of papers (happens a few times a year),</li>
<li>can now have the computer search for me instead of having to flip pages,</li>
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This has been a win all around for me although old habits die hard.</div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Replaced paper, rubber band, and plastic with electrons. Significant reduction in what previously needed to be transported and recycled.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Big win. Electrons are cheap to deliver.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Big win. Don't need to go out to driveway to retrieve, call if it got lost, or suspend when we go on trips. Can get it on iPad or computer wherever I am if I want it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Big win. iPad is very compact, newspapers took up space inside and in recycling bin.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Big win. Cost for the electronic edition is about one third the cost of the print edition. I already owned the iPad for other reasons.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Big win. No longer killing as many trees, recycling still has an environmental toll. Rubber bands can be reused but need to find someone who needs them. I usually gave them back to my paper delivery person which took some time and money to do. Eliminating the need for plastic bags is huge. Plastic survives hundreds of years and is poisoning our ocean and land as well as people as it comes back around in our food chain.</span></div>
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Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-19380384224107835012016-01-31T19:02:00.004-08:002020-12-28T20:09:50.133-08:00New Best Way to Handle Dog PoopI've found an even better way to dispose of dog poop than the one I documented in 2008 at <a href="http://ecopractice.blogspot.com/2008/03/best-way-to-dispose-of-dog-poop.html">http://ecopractice.blogspot.com/2008/03/best-way-to-dispose-of-dog-poop.html</a><br />
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It works by using a funnel-like attachment on your sewer cleanout so you can drop the dog poop directly into your sewer line without necessarily using any water!<br />
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Here is a picture of me doing this:<br />
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This is neater and easier than putting the dog poop in a toilet to flush. Saves water too.<br />
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The sewer cleanout accessory we use is the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0020N940C">Doggie Doo Drain Dog Waste Sewer Line Attachment</a>.<br />
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The reusable device we now use to pick up poop on walks (instead of using a plastic bag) is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005BUZHXY">Nature's Miracle Jaw Scoop</a>. It is easy to carry and holds the poop in the little bucket its jaws create. The medium size model can hold dozens of small poops or a couple of big poops from a big dog (we have little dogs). There is also a jumbo size if you need it.<br />
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If the poop is solid and not sticky, no water is needed as the poop just rolls down into the sewer. The poop in the sewer line gets flushed when water inside the house enters the sewer line. If the poop is sticky, using a little water from a nearby hose can rinse it down the funnel as well as rinse off the pooper scooper. Still less water used than a toilet flush.<br />
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The sewer system is the best way to handle both dog poop and human poop. I confirmed this with Sunnyvale waste management (both solid waste and sewage departments) as well as numerous online sources. Having trash sorters run into poop in the trash is not so pleasant (all trash in Sunnyvale is sorted to try to reclaim recyclables residents mistakenly put in the trash). Please note that cat poop is more problematic (toxoplasmosis survives sewage treatment and is fatal to sea otters in San Francisco Bay).<br />
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Note that our sewer cleanout is located in a great spot near our house so it is very convenient to use for dog waste disposal plus we can "smell" our sewer backing up outside before it backs up inside. This location of cleanout allows blockages to be more easily removed between our house and the street. Sewer cleanouts near the street probably won't work as well for either this dog poop disposal method or to allow the sewer line between your house and the street to be cleared easily.<br />
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Here are some closer pictures of our sewer cleanout. The funnel was a snap to install. It screws into the same threads that the black inner cap uses.<br />
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Here is a picture of the pooper scooper we use on walks (we normally keep it outside in the flowerbed next to our front door ready for the next walk):<br />
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Here is the one we use for our backyard (it stays outside in the back):<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No disposable flushing bags or plastic bags needed. Just reusable scoopers and funnel.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Less than needed to create, ship, buy, and dispose of poop bags. Just the one time manufacturing and shipping to get this reusable equipment. Piggybacks on existing sewer system with negligible additional energy (or water) needed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Picking up poop with scoopers is faster and easier than using a bag. Do need to remember to grab a pooper scooper when going for a walk.</span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A little outside space occupied by reusable equipment, but less inside space that was previously occupied by empty poop bags.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost is much less than buying bags (for us with 3 dogs that is 6 poops/bags a day or 2190/year at a cost of 2 cents per bag or $44 per year or $440 over 10 years. One time investment of about $50-60 for funnel and a scooper. (We used to use "free" bags from our newspaper and produce -- but since we no longer get a physical newspaper and use reusable bags for produce, we no longer have a "free" source.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Disposing of poop this way is much healthier, safer, and better for the environment than having it go thru sorting and then entombing in a landfill. We will run out of landfills. Also eliminating the disposable plastic is extremely important as plastic from bags lasts hundreds of years and eventually poisons our creeks, rivers, oceans, and us. Sewer and septic systems are much more effective and efficient at handling human and dog waste than other methods.</span></div>
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We now have a small 2 quart black bucket that collects the trash for our entire house. Here is a picture of it next to our 2 little dogs:<br />
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And a picture of it next to our indoor kitchen compost and recycling collection bins:<br />
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The liners in the compost and recycling bins you see are certified compostable. The one used for recycling is rotated and becomes the one for compost after we empty the recycling into our outdoor recycling bin. The compost one makes it easier to toss the collected compost into a larger commercial composting facility and then the compost bin gets a new liner and becomes the one we collect recycling in. Here are the 13 gallon liners we currently use: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004V5XCSC">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004V5XCSC</a><br />
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We no longer use any plastic trash bags. Our recycling and trash are now pretty "clean" since all the messy organics end up in the compost bin.<br />
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When Sunnyvale starts picking up food scrap compostables directly we may move to zero liners saving that resource and expense. Our outdoor trash, recycling, and yard waste bins require no liners.Tim Oeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11950416117686776062noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715358100843711353.post-34991886900330413882016-01-20T18:00:00.000-08:002016-01-20T18:00:07.134-08:00Paper Ice Cream Containers<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After reading a number of recycling and composting sites that said paper ice cream containers could not be composted because of the plastic lining they use, I was very bummed. My wife and I like ice cream and I really wanted to enjoy it waste free.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.recologysanmateo.com/index.php/for-businesses/recology-compost-recycling-garbage#compost" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.recologysanmateo.com/index.php/for-businesses/recology-compost-recycling-garbage#compost</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://recyclewhere.org/item/ice-cream-containers?search=Ice%20Cream%20Containers&serv_aud=92&lz_nid=540&dz_id=985&latitude=37.779329&longitude=-122.419150&distance=7.5&city=San%20Francisco&zip=94102" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://recyclewhere.org/item/ice-cream-containers?search=Ice%20Cream%20Containers&serv_aud=92&lz_nid=540&dz_id=985&latitude=37.779329&longitude=-122.419150&distance=7.5&city=San%20Francisco&zip=94102</span></a></div>
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