The Imperfectly Green Guide
caring for our planet & each other through approach actions & growing curiosity
Navigate by your own North Star.
Maybe it’s your mission. Maybe it’s your kid or kids. Whatever it may be, it’s what brings you clarity, gives you purpose and ultimately shifts your consciousness so that you will see beyond the horizon of your daily decisions.
Power down at sundown.
Can you even quantify how much energy we would save if everyone put down the devices, turned off the lights, and shut off the TV once a week after dinner?
Turn down plastic bottles.
When tossed in the trash, those plastic water, soda, tea, and sport drink bottles end up bobbing around in oceans and piling high on landfills. And the news you may not want to hear—even those bottles we do recycle (about 9% are recycled) further our ecological crisis. Lest we forget the microplastics that are swimming around in our bodies, in part due to plastic bottle consumption.
Hang out with little kids.
Show them the beauty of all that surrounds us, an appreciation for diversities, and the power of community. Take them out in nature. Read them books about change and other cultures. Show them the magic of the weather, a sunrise, or a snowstorm. Take them to volunteer or to the library or to a nature clean up. Allow your children to learn with you, how you recycle, how you garden, how you clean, cook, refill, reuse, shop pre-loved—all the ways you take care of what matters.
Quit caring so much about “convenient.”
You will find that you are more fulfilled, more connected, and more environmentally conscious when you release yourself from fast, cheap, and easy.
The Imperfect Green Guide
years ago, somewhere between Haramara and Sayulita, Mexico, our favorite place, back in our yoga teaching together days
a collaborative blog
by Janna Hockenjos at Earth Friends
& Sydney Shoff at Sol Refill
Sydney and Janna are two… what some might call eco-entrepreneurs. “Eco” because they both care deeply about Earth and all life on it and “entrepreneur” because the two of them have founded businesses that focus on and foster this love for our planet. Janna Hockenjos is the founder of Earth Friends, and Sydney Shoff is the founder of Sol Refill.
Instead of keeping our many, many conversations about how to live healthier, happier, and more in harmony in the world, we thought we’d share our low waste living and our big love for life on Earth here on this blog.
We met over a decade ago in the Pittsburgh yoga world, and ever since then our worlds of friendship, motherhood, sustainability, consciousness consumerism, and entrepreneurship continue to alchemize.
See what Sydney is doing at Sol Refill here.
