Sustainability — Notes about design, social innovation, and my journey to sustainability

The 6 Rs

Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle, and Rot

I love this zero waste approach. It is methodical, and it drives you to be mindful of the things you surround yourself with. If you want to level up a bit, I also recommend learning about life cycle thinking. It’s a business approach that considers the entire life cycle of a product from raw material extraction…

Sustainable LivingNina RumbinesJanuary 10, 2019Sustainability, zero waste, produce bags, composting, lifecycle thinking, systems thinking

Eating out 101

How to eat out with sustainability in mind.

To summarize our dinner experience, I completely forgot to tap into my green mindset and ended up sabotaging the first day to living more sustainably by using single-use plastics. So as soon as we got home, I wrote down how I could have avoided this problem.

Sustainable LivingNina RumbinesJanuary 9, 2019Sustainability, Zero waste, Food