All posts by: Amanda O.

About Amanda O.

Amanda and her family live in a renovated sustainable & toxin-free Airstream travel trailer in Washington.  When she’s not homeschooling or enjoying the mountains, she blogs about their adventures & her recovery from multiple autoimmune diseases and toxic mold poisoning at Treehousedaily.com

We’ve officially crossed the halfway point in our “Waste Less and Be Green in 2015” challenge.  Welcome to the second half of the year!!  How is the challenge going for you so far?  I’m curious how many weeks you’ve completed and what changes you’ve seen in your life?  I hope it’s been a positive journey […]

Our society is dumpster-happy.  Millions of items are thrown away every day that are perfectly useable.  I live in a 3rd floor apartment and can see into our dumpster and my heart breaks over the items I see thrown out.  This week we’re going to look at another “R”-  we’ve covered reduce, we’ve covered refuse, […]

Last week we looked at the new “R” in the reduce, reuse, recycle phrase of “refuse.”  This week we’re going to talk about “recycle.”  This whole “Waste Less and Be Green in 2015” series has focused heavily on reducing.  It is my hope that by the end of the year you’ll have significantly reduced your […]

We’re all familiar with the “three Rs” of reduce, reuse, recycle.  Recently a 4th “R” has been popping up among Zero Waste bloggers: “refuse”- refuse excess packaging, refuse free samples you don’t need, refuse excess waste… etc. This one is really hard for me to do.  I’m a sucker for free samples.  Those cute tiny […]