This week’s mini-show features ideas for clearing out your body and your space. Learn how to lighten your load by shifting your diet focus, meet a local green resource for hauling your stuff away, get the real scoop on chocolate and read inspiration for letting your true self shine! Watch now.
Practical Steps
Shred It!
Stuff your old files into a bag and get over to Storables this Saturday. Free shredding from 10 to 1. Tigard, OR and Lynwood, WA locations only. Great chance to clear out and clean up the green way. Two shopping bag limit per person. Get more details here.
Earth 911
Did you know there are over 50 places to recycle batteries in the Portland area? What about eyeglasses, paint supplies or those old video tapes? The Earth911 website provides one of the best resource directories I’ve seen for recycling and living green. Just put in the item you want to recycle and your zipcode. Up pops a list of sites and links starting with the closest to your area. It’s a national directory so even friends back east and in the south can find help. Donation sites included, too. The website also provides green tips for businesses and lots of reuse and recycle how-to’s. Check it out!
STUFF Sheds Light
Love hearing from audience members who are putting the ideas into practice! Julie G. writes:
“Thank you so much for the stuffication workshop on Tuesday 2/1 at the Beaverton Library. It was both helpful and inspiring.
I very much appreciated your brief history on how we got here. The immediate post-war period in the U.S. was unique in that two major transformations converged: the advent of 1) credit cards and 2) mass advertising. Together these two innoventions ushered in an era of unprecedented economic growth fueled by consumer spending on products that people didn’t need and couldn’t afford.
Since the economic meltdown of 2008-2009, I have been amazed at government efforts to “increase consumer spending” in hopes that we can somehow get back to the halcion days of unregulated credit and out-of-control consumer spending. It was such a breath of fresh air to hear you give voice to the obvious: we will never get back there, and that is a good thing. The future beckons us to spend less on “stuff” that we don’t need and can’t afford.
I came home from your workshop and made a plan for small incremental changes which I began today. First books, then clothes, then kitchenstuff. This project of cleaning out which seemed so overwhelming to me before your workshop, now feels very doable. Thank you!”
A Clear Place 