Honesty Modern Media is a collection of media companies focused on building community and living more eco-friendly through connection, collective action, and civic engagement. What started as a blog, Honestly Modern, about sustainable living tips and tricks for families has grown into multiple media outlets to help each of us be the changemakers in our communities.
Honestly Modern Newsletter
A newsletter about building community + enduring climate crisis through connection, collective action, and civic engagement. Start taking action where you live and share ideas with others who are doing the same. Sign up below to stay connected and get lots of ideas for living more sustainably with your family and building community with your neighbors.
The newsletter offers an arsenal of ideas and a community of like-minded people who want a future of fair and functional government, clean air and water, a planet that’s not on fire, and communities working together for something better. We need to start the cleanup in our neighborhoods.
We can be wise, green, builders, creators, advocates, and sage neighbors. We can collaborate through conversation and civic engagement to heal our planet and build more resilient communities.
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Connect Chadds Ford is a hyperlocal newsletter serving Chadds Ford, PA, and the greater Brandywine Valley. It’s a civic-minded community newsletter about engaging with organizations and local government to build the community we hope to see and share with our children and neighbors.
The newsletter highlights local news and events, promotes civic engagement and other happenings in the area, showcases local businesses and community organizations, and brings neighbors together for a stronger, more resilient local network.
The blog was the root of the Honestly Modern Media collection from which the rest of the content grew. It’s for everyone interested in making sustainable living for families more attainable and relatable, even if it initially feels overwhelming.
Are you curious about climate action but don’t know where to start? Maybe you’ve taken a few steps along the adventure and want to level up your eco-conscious lifestyle habits. Get practical, actionable tips and guidance to help modern families incorporate more sustainable habits into their everyday lives.
From composting at home to reducing consumption to building stronger communities, explore a variety of ways we can all choose more planet-friendly lifestyle choices and make our world a little better for our kids and the generations that follow. But don’t worry—you don’t have to master all of them. Just start somewhere.
The best part is that eco-friendly living is better for us, separate from Mother Nature’s benefits. Through climate action, we can collectively become better stewards of the planet, live more intentionally, and make our communities more resilient and sustainable.
Meet the creator + owner
Jen Panaro
Jen Panaro is a self-proclaimed composting nerd who advocates for community building and sustainable living for modern families. Through her writing, workshops, and podcast guesting, she helps others more easily incorporate sustainability into their everyday lives and find ways to be the community connectors and changemakers where they live.
You can also find her published work as an author in How To Raise a Global Citizen: For the Parents of the Children Who Will Save the World. In pursuit of her passion, she started and operated a local curbside composting company, WasteWell, before eventually selling it to dedicate more time to Honestly Modern Media and her family.
She draws on her 15 years of experience as a CPA at a large public accounting firm to inform her volunteer work as President of the Board of Trustees of her local library.
In her spare time, she’s a serial library book borrower, a composting tinkerer, and a mom of two boys who spend a lot of time playing ice hockey, basketball, and lacrosse.
Learn more about her professional work on LinkedIn, enjoy dollops of her education and family life on Instagram, and hear from Jen on some of the many podcasts on which she’s been a guest.