Author Archives: Pam Lazos

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About Pam Lazos

writer, blogger, environmentally hopeful

EEEWW, Are You Going to Eat That?

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Pam Lazos

[photo of a vending machine I spotted at the LCSWMA trash tour — best vending machine ever!] EEEWW, Are You Going to Eat That? We have some refrigerator food rules in our house: two days for fish, three for cooked … Continue reading →

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Doers or Deciders

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Pam Lazos

Doers or Deciders? “Even more than we are doers, we are deciders.” Ralph Blume, The Book of Runes When I was a kid, my parents and my dad’s best friend and his wife, decided it would be a good idea … Continue reading →

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Compost

Posted on April 3, 2019 by Pam Lazos

Compost Composting is one of the easiest, most sustainable activities going. Leftovers from everything you chop like salad, fruit and vegetables, or the non-meat, non-grain discards from the dinner plates go into the bin I keep under the sink and, when … Continue reading →

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Buy Chemical-Free Cosmetics

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Pam Lazos

Buy Chemical-Free Products So it’s Day 2 of the A to Z blogging challenge and that means the letter B.  Why do we need to buy chemical-free products?  Because we deserve healthy bodies and healthy lives and adding a bunch … Continue reading →

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Awareness, Meet Action

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Pam Lazos

Awareness, Meet Action Perhaps you saw the story of 16-year old Greta Thunberg who last year took to the steps of parliament in her native Sweden to protest the fact that the Swedish government wasn’t doing enough to combat climate … Continue reading →

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What’s in a Name?

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Pam Lazos

[photo by Arianna Rich] What’s in a Name? What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other word would smell as sweet; So says Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, but the alternative reality is that … Continue reading →

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WATWB – Watch Out World!

Posted on March 29, 2019 by Pam Lazos

Because the news this month was all too positive to choose just one story, I chose three.  The first is the intersection of upcycling, a concept that my sister and her husband embrace with enthusiasm as they outfit their home and … Continue reading →

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World Water Day

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Pam Lazos

WORLD WATER DAY Today, March 22, is World Water Day. [photo by Stacey Lazos] Not to be a downer, but water statistics suck. By 2050 we will have more plastic in the ocean than fish which is going to be … Continue reading →

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Survival of the Fittest

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Pam Lazos

Survival of the Fittest Blogging friend, Jacqui Murray, has written a new prehistoric fiction novel, Survival of the Fittest, Book 1 in the Crossroads series, part of her Man vs. Nature saga.   Synopsis: Chased by a ruthless and powerful enemy, Xhosa flees with her … Continue reading →

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A New Year, A New Earth and Hamilton

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Pam Lazos

A New Year,  A New Earth,  and Hamilton I read Eckhart Tolle’s,  A New Earth,  Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, way back in January,  meandering through it slowly as if I were on vacation, reading the same paragraphs over and … Continue reading →

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