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Eco-friendly living with kids isn’t hard, especially when we aren’t aspiring to perfection. We share resources to help you explore climate action, zero waste living, regenerative gardening, and intersectional environmentalism, all through the lens of modern family life.
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Eco-friendly Crafting: 15 Creative Ways to Use Food Scraps
Looking for a creative way to use food scraps for crafts? Check out these 15 fun crafts from food scraps to reduce your food waste while having a little fun (and saving money on craft supplies)! There’s a lot of chatter about food waste these days and for good reason. Firstly, eating is my favorite…
What is Honestly Modern?
Honestly Modern is an online space all about eco-friendly living for modern families. We help families incorporate low waste and eco-friendly habits into everyday living. We foster the exchange of ideas among parents and caregivers about sustainable living with kids in a modern world. Our community strives to teach future generations to respect and protect the world and its beauty through books, conversations, family experiences, and community actions.
Parenting is messy and hard, and in today’s environment, sustainable living often requires swimming against the cultural current. We welcome parents on the path to more eco-friendly living no matter where they are on their journey. Sustainable living isn’t about perfection or fitting all of our trash in a mason jar; it’s about doing the best we can today and making progress as we grow with our children.
Reading Lately | Food, Drugs and Magic
Over the last few weeks, I’ve spent a good portion of my reading time buried in adult non-fiction and juvenile fiction. Most of the books have some element of sustainability in them (surprise, surprise). Here’s what I have been reading and listening to lately. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and…
How To Use The Library | Visit The Library While Traveling With Kids
A few weeks ago, my nine-year-old son and I were out of town for a couple of his hockey games. We have more than five hours between games. We were too far away to return home but didn’t travel far enough from home to need a hotel. We didn’t want to do anything too active…
Weekend Update #3 | Hello Holidays
Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to leading up to the holidays. Connecting Friends To Pass Along Clothes Through a couple of different conversations with unrelated friends, it came to my attention that one family had several boxes of clothing their children outgrew. Meanwhile, another friend had a little girl who could use…