Here’s to a new year, filled with lots of good things, including (but not limited to…) progress towards the end of this pandemic, strong climate action, electoral reform, peace and justice locally and globally, and civility towards each other.
Stay tuned for more website updates in the coming months. 💻😊
Hi all!
I have a couple of quick updates here for you!
One – Many of the partners in the online store have holiday deals going on now, or coming up soon (too many to list them all here). Check them all out! Whether you are looking to get rid of single use plastics, use more sustainable laundry detergent, buy a cozy sweater or anything else, the online store can help. 🙂
Two – A new and improved website experience is coming soon (hopefully in the next few weeks), so stay tuned for details! The new website will have a fresh new look and will (hopefully) also be much easier to navigate.
Want to stay updated on this and other sustainability-related items? Sign up for updates (if you aren’t already signed up) and share with others – the more the the merrier! Stay safe everyone! 🙂
Please share in your circles, if you know others who might be interested! Thank you! 🙂
The online store is growing again! Encircled clothing from Toronto is now live in the online store!
Check out the online store for more info on Encircled, plus all of the other amazing, sustainable items that are available including:
NOTE: This website is continuing to refuse to pay for advertising on Facebook until they improve their practices. Please help by sharing widely in your circles, and encouraging others to check out the website and sign up for newsletter updates. Thank you! 🙂
Details are emerging regarding the Canadian federal government’s upcoming ban on single use plastics. While a great deal of work remains to be done, this is one small step in the right direction. What we know at this point is that the ban will includes the following items.
Even before this announcement, many people had already begun switching away from these types of items. This switch will make it even easier to avoid single use waste at a national level, for everyone!
Have you started switching to zero waste products already? Thought about it but haven’t made the change? Well on your way to a zero waste living? Where ever we are at now (individually and collectively), chances are that this new regulation will impact all of us in some way, and will help create positive changes for the country and the environment.
Ready to make changes? The Menno Adventures online store has lots of options to help you live more sustainably. Whatever you are looking for, we have it:
New items are on their way. Stay tuned for more details soon!
I am thrilled to share that MennoAdventures is now partnering with LastObject – a fairly new Danish company focused on replacing single use items with reusable, sustainable alternatives. Currently, they have replacements for single use cotton swabs, travel size tissue packs, and cotton rounds, in addition to accessories (carry pouches etc). As a new company, I expect that we will see many new products coming from LastObject in the future – so stay tuned!
For more details on this, and all of the other great, sustainable products and companies we partner with, check out the online store! 🙂
Our mission – LastObject
Our mission – eliminate single use items by creating reusable sustainable alternatives.
Looking for more details: Click here
Our purpose is to provide the world with sustainable choices.
Our values:
✓ Our products must have at least 10x real environmental impact vs the traditional single use products they replace.
✓ We build premium products with high usability and excellent design – ”good enough” is not good enough – we are obsessed with our products.
✓ We are end-to-end sustainable across our entire value chain, from cradle to grave.
Looking for more details? Ready to order? Click here
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NOTE: The Facebook advertising boycott is still active – so you will see this on Facebook, but I am not paying for it to be shared with others who might enjoy it. If you know of others who might appreciate this, please forward or share in your circles, sign up for newsletter updates (if you haven’t already) and invite others to do the same. Thank you! 🙂
As many of you may have already heard, a boycott has begun, Stop Hate for Profit – withdrawing advertising dollars from Facebook until they strengthen their regulations and policies related to hate speech, violence, misinformation and other related pieces.
I personally know that I, and this website, are a very small operation, and my few dollars of advertising that I have spent do not register in any meaningful way in Facebook’s advertising budget. At the same time, I firmly believe that we each need to use our voice – in whatever form that takes – to stand up for what is right. Collectively, we can create changes that none of us can do on our own.
So, in that spirit, I will not be spending any money on Facebook for July and August, and possibly later. This could change (earlier or later) depending on the status of the boycott and if/when changes happen. I will do my best to keep you updated on things as they evolve.
In the meantime, for those of you who have joined us only on Facebook, I would like to offer extra encouragement to come over to my website and join there! All of my posts (which you see on Facebook) are there, plus I have lots of extra resources, and an online store, filled (and growing!) with lots of cool, sustainable items!
If you know others who might be interested in joining as well, please share this around. The more the merrier! 🙂
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Higher density communities are a must, for a whole range of reasons. Let’s see this as something to embrace and celebrate, instead of something to resist. 🙂
It’s well established that detached-home neighbourhoods use more energy and put a much larger burden on municipal infrastructure, per person, than higher-density neighbourhoods. It’s not a coincidence that Toronto — the only city in the Greater Toronto Area with any real urban density — has the lowest residential property taxes of any city in the region, while the least dense, most outlying communities tend to have the highest.
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Mass consumerism is destroying our planet. This Black Friday, let’s take a stand
And, by extension, this does not apply to only one day – or one week. To be clear, I am not against giving gifts, if that’s what is being bought – it’s the opposite, in fact. I love gift-giving traditions. This is about an end to the culture of mass consumerism that is destroying the planet. Instead of 3 cheap shirts from the mall, have 1 nice one from a business that is genuinely worth supporting. Support quality over quantity. Enjoy outings and experiences and relationships, instead of more cheap stuff. The change may feel hard sometimes, but it’s worth it. 🙂
