Ohhhh you guys, I really didn’t like this challenge. For starters, it should have been called ACTION Not Apathy, instead of Activism Not Apathy. I think the word ‘activism’ was confusing and wasn’t really what this challenge was about. Yes, fantastic if you’re out there marching and calling your local government representatives and picketing outside factory farms, etc, etc, but my initial idea behind The Kin Project was that the challenges should be simple and easy habit chan

While I’m plugging away at this month’s challenge, #activismnotapathy, I thought I’d take a minute to have a wee think about last month’s challenge to #switchoffscreens. I think, out of all the challenges I’ve done so far, this was my favourite. It forced me to examine just how pervasive screens (laptops, TV, mobile phones) are in my life - it was as though these things had crept in over the years without me really noticing how much I was letting them control me, as radical a

The challenge for January 2018 is #activismnotapathy where we are going to try to spread a little bit of positive change outside of just working on our own habits. I decided that my own little campaign would be to see if I could get one of my favourite local restaurants, La Más Bonita, to stop serving plastic straws with drinks. Luckily, it turns out that I have a friend who knows someone who knows the owners. She offered to pass an email along to them. (I'll include the emai