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Clean Your Room is a podcast by a regular person who is just trying to be a little more organized.
Show Notes for Season 1, Episode 11: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, but first Reduce
Alethea talks about stopping waste before it starts by trying to reduce consumption.
Happy Earth Day!
I forgot to mention this last week, but yes, it was the 51st Earth Day on April 22nd.
Here are some links to articles on whether and how minimalism, veganism, and zero waste can be done to help the planet. I am in no way saying that aiming for these things or that people who ascribe to these movements do not help -- just that we should be aware there are ways of doing them incorrectly which are not only unhelpful for the environment, but are also unhelpful to individuals. In this episode I talk more about the most basic thoughts to build a mindset of waste reduction.
Please note some of these articles have sources/works cited and some don't; additionally some platforms and sources may be biased so take this information with a grain of salt. I'm sharing them more as a starting-off point for our own thoughts around how we can help reduce waste, conserve resources, and restore the earth.
eMagazine: Can the Rising Trend of Minimalism Help the Environment?
The Boar: Environmental Benefits of Minimalism
Nourishing Minimalism: How Minimalism Helps the Environment and Makes Life More Meaningful
Amerisleep: Why Being a Minimalist Might Be Bad for the Environment–and How to Do Minimalism Right
BBC Good Food: Is a Vegan Diet Better for the Environment?
Vegan Outreach: Going Vegan: An Effective Way to Reduce Environmental Impact
BBC.com: Why the Vegan Diet Is Not Always Green
Veganism and the Environment by the Numbers (infographic)
How Zero-Waste People Make Only a Jar of Trash Per Year
Sierra Club: Zeroing Out Zero Waste
Almost Zero Waste: 16 Surprising Benefits of Going Zero Waste
EPA: How Communities have defined Zero Waste
Quotes from ZeroWasteChef
Selling Apps, Little Free Libraries, and Buy Nothing Groups
Reduce Food Waste
I'm going to talk about this more at another time (when we talk about cleaning the fridge), but here's a great article with ideas on reducing food waste.
The Underground Plant Trade
AAPI Resources
- Stop AAPI Hate
- PBS: What you can do to fight violence and racism against Asian Americans
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice
- GoFundMe: #StopAsianHate
- commUNITY Action Fund
- Red Canary Song
- National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
- Free Bystander Intervention Training
- Harper's Bazaar: Asian-American and AAPI Organizations to Support
AAPI Owned and Operated Businesses
- JjengasPlants (check their Instagram posts in case there's a coupon available)
- Cake Girl (vegan! gluten-free! allergen-free!)
- Black Smoke (Itim Usok - Jewelry, charms, and personal care by my cousin Adri)
- Uncover LA (retail and fashion site by my cousin Danielle)
- Tatang - My favorite local Filipino restaurant
- Boba Guys and probably pretty much every boba place out there that is about to run out of boba
- Bachan's, my fave Japanese BBQ sauce
- Fly by Jing, my fave Zhong dumpling sauce (and more)
- Auria's Malaysian Kitchen, trust me--you need some pandan kaya.
- Bookhou, who does the best punch needle IMHO
- Mallory with the Flowers
- A list from Good Housekeeping
- A list from Self Magazine
- A list from House Beautiful
- Mama Los Angeles amplifies food businesses
Black Lives Matter
- Black Lives Matter movement
- BLM Carrd
- Being Antiracist (National Museum of African American History and Culture)
- NPR: 'Not Racist' Is Not Enough: Putting in the Work to be Anti-Racist
- Vox: What It Means to Be Antiracist
- BBIMP explained (removing language "of color" and "POC" to de-center whiteness)
- The 1619 Project
- A list from AIGA, the professional association for design
- A resource list from FutureLearn
- U of Washington resource list for non-black melanated people
Anti-Blackness and Racism in Filipino Culture
- OneDwnMedia: Unlearning Anti-Blackness in Filipino Culture - this is excellent and brief IMHO. Seriously, it's a great channel of info -- check them out here.
- LAist: How a 'Secret Asian Man' Embraced Anti-Racism
- FYLPro: It's time to talk to your parents, titos and titas about internalized racism
- EsquireMagPh: Racism in the Philippines: Does It Exist?
- Bonus: On Being Asked to Change "Black Lives Matter" to "All Lives Matter" because I felt my mother would be more likely to listen to a spiritual person and he explains it very well. Certainly better than I could on Facebook at 6 am when I read her comments and my brain exploded.
Support Independent Bookstores! Independent Bookstore Day is April 24th
Once Upon a Time in Montrose, CA 📚
Brain Lain Books Online and Pop Up 🧠
The Ripped Bodice: A Romantic Bookstore 💕
Vroman's Bookstore 💚
Printable Graph Paper
Need to draw up some plans to rearrange your rooms? Check out this site with free graph paper or Goodnotes where you can create as many notebooks you want with different page formats.
Passion Planner
FYI - The rest of the links are not affiliate/referral links, just the $5 Passion Planner one above.
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