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Lessons from the Road: Know your footprint

What is the weight of your footprint? What is the cost of your footprint? One of the most surprising things I experience when I go from a house to a school bus is the sheer amount of waste we as humans produce. From packaging to paper towels to food scraps to everything else I won’t mention here, it’s a lot. When I am stationary at home, my trash hides in a 13 gallon bucket under […]

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Lessons from the Road: The weight of consumerism

How many things do you own? How many things are you responsible for? Every thing we have comes with a cost beyond the purchase price. From maintenance to cleaning to relocating to using: we are required to do much more with our things than we usually think about. Let’s consider a lawn mower: it has the original purchase price, the sales tax if applicable, the time to transport, the space it takes up, the time […]

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