Welcome to the Tweed Trends podcast. Hey, Evette, what's trending today? Hey, I'm Evette, hey girl. And you are tuned in to Tweed Trends.
It's the quickest way to find out what's trending today. Hey, happy Earth Day. Let's get started. I don't know about you, but Earth Day gives me such a good feeling inside.
I really love the outdoors. I love planting things. And you know, it's probably more than planting items like seeds or actual plants or trees. I enjoy watching whatever it is that I have planted.
Actually take root and grow. That part is the amazing part for me. So I think that's why I have such an affinity towards Earth Day because when you think about Earth Day, you're thinking about conservation and actually putting back into the Earth so that it can then continue that cycle where you help the Earth, Earth helps you. And we just go on and on from there.
So I've actually been planting for Earth Day since last week. Yeah, it's like that. Where I bought two herbs. I got cilantro and parsley.
And let me stop there and say this. If you've had any type of success, growing cilantro, please hit me up because I have never been able to get cilantro to grow. And the day I get cilantro to grow, I'm throwing a party. I'm so serious.
You can come to my cilantro party and we're going to have chips and salsa, homemade salsa, because I'm just going to be so excited that I have my own batch of cilantro to pick from. But whereas the parsley on the other hand, I can grow parsley with my eyes closed and a pair of pants on two sides is too small and one hand tied behind my back parsley grows for me like nothing. But dog on cilantro, we just need to have a sit down because cilantro does not cooperate. But anyway, like I said, so if you know how to grow cilantro, please give me some tips, send me a message, do something, but just help us to throw out.
Anyway, back to Earth Day. So I'm really excited about today. And I've got a couple of things that I want to share with you about Earth Day and things that you can do. And even technology that can help you in what you're doing in order to save Earth, in order to honor the Earth, and to respect that connection that we both have together.
The responsibility to protect our shared planet intersects every aspect of our lives. Now, when you sit and you think about it, animals and plants, they respect the Earth. They don't do things to hurt the Earth. They don't do things to make it a bad place.
However, humans on the other hand, ah, yeah, we got a big problem and we need to work on it. It's unfortunate though that in a lot of cases, I'd like to think that people don't realize that the things that they are doing is hurting the Earth because it's what they've been used to doing for so long. Now, I think early settlers, they probably had a better understanding of their connection to the Earth and how the things that they did affected the Earth. And I think until we're able to get back to that point where we begin to recognize and understand what it is or what it means to not throw away food or waste food or to not waste textiles and things like that, I'd like to think that there are going to be more people that come up with ideas on new ways to recycle things.
I think that is probably going to be really big once people can kind of wrap their mind around the whole idea and be like, OK, what can we do with this thing and turn it into something else that is useful? But bottom line is there are people out there that if it's not coming straight from the manufacturer themselves, then they will have nothing to do with it seriously. As a matter of fact, I had a discussion with a little girl that I tutored and she has some dress update that's coming up and she was trying to come up with an outfit. And I made mention that she should possibly go to a thrift store to put together her outfit.
And she gave me the pukeiest look that I've seen in a long time from someone that was not about to throw up. Like seriously, she was kind of like, no, who wants to do that? But the idea of always having to go to the store to get something brand new and you think about it, you get to a point where you outgrow it, you no longer want it, you no longer like it, then what do you do with it? A lot of people just grab up their clothes in the bag and throw it in the trash.
They don't go out of their way to try to maybe have a garage sale or take it to a consignment shop or take it to a goodwill or just take it to a homeless shelter and see to it that people have something to pick from that can then help them in their journey. A lot of people don't think about that. They don't consider the options. Their only focus is, I got this stuff, I need to get rid of it.
But they don't realize that the textiles, there are even some stores like H&M, for instance, they have a program where you can bring old clothes, fabric, whatever to them and then they'll give you a discount on their clothes and then what they do with the textiles is they actually recycle it into more clothes. Well, how cool is that? I love that idea. And as a matter of fact, I have been of clothes to take to H&M because it's like, I want to be a part of the solution and not a part of the problem.
So this next one is tough for me and not so much that I've ever been hungry before or in need of food, but just the idea that there are some people in some parts of the world and even the country that are in desperate need for food. They want food so bad, but they cannot seem to get to it. They can't, there's some type of barrier that's preventing them from getting the sustenance that they need. And then you have the opposite side of that coin where there are some people that have so much food that they throw it away all willy-nilly, like, you know, I don't want this anymore.
Now, that's one thing that we've been having to talk to our daughter about lately, because she used to be a really good eater, and now she's starting to be a little finicky and even had a situation one day where she threw away a sandwich and pretended that the sandwich was so delicious. And, you know, we ended up finding it in the trash and then she broke down and it was one of these things like, oh, I didn't want you to think that I didn't like your cooking. Well, no, sweetheart, I'm not buying that, but nice try. We cannot afford to just waste food one because being wasteful, you waste the food, you waste your money.
But two, you waste the food and then you eat away at the atmosphere that's protecting us and allowing us to be able to live here on this earth. But unfortunately, I really don't think that people have put much thought into it. Now, they've thought about ways to handle their bottom line, but restaurants and stuff like that and just your typical everyday household. We need to come up with better ways.
We should all be composting, you know, where you take those organic type foods, your fruit and vegetables and peels of various fruits and whatnot and put those in a composter. And then what ends up coming from that is awesome, fertilized soil that you can then use in the garden that you created when you bought all those cool plants, like the collard greens and the eggplant, the cilantro and the parsley. Yeah, doesn't that make sense? It's all interconnected.
And if we do one to help the next, then you end up with a harvest at some point and then you get to actually eat the things that you made and who knows, it may get to a point where you can then start giving food to your neighbors or, you know, just sharing it with them, if nothing else. I think that those types of ideas are absolutely awesome because not only does it build community, but it helps to save the earth. Thanks for joining me on today's episode. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you are trying to come up with something so that you too can join me in celebrating Earth Day.
Now, if you're having trouble, let me help you out. Why not go check out some apps? Because you know there's an app for that, right? Isn't that for everything?
So I got two that I want to recommend to you. One of them is Offer Up. Offer Up is gonna help with the textiles and the clothing and different things like that. Anything that you have that you want to buy or want to sell, why not look for it and offer up?
And who knows, you may find something there that you've been looking for and you can't find it in a regular store, why? Because they probably don't make it anymore. But in a place like Offer Up, you can find those beautiful gems that will just brighten your life and maybe even give you some feelings of nostalgia. Who knows?
But the thing to remember is, just because something has been used does not mean that it's been abused. There are plenty of things out there that have been gently used that they're just looking for a good home and someone else to take care of them. So why can't that someone be you? The other app that I want to recommend is one called Whisk.
W-H-I-S-K, it's a food app and you might be like, well, how's this gonna help me? Is it gonna give me recipes? Sure, you can even put your own recipes in it. But the good part about it, the extra that icing on the cake, is that you can do meal planning through this app.
And by doing meal planning, you then plan out your meals, you plan out your portions and then you can buy for that portion size versus just buying in bulk and then ending up having to throw out stuff because it's gone bad before you can get to it or whatever the reason is that you end up throwing out this food that could have been eaten, but for whatever reason, it didn't get eaten. So an app like Whisk can actually help you, one, save money, two, save the planet by cutting down on the amount of food waste that will be coming from your household. All right, so those are just two options though, there are so many more out there. So check them out and if you find one that moves you in particular, please by all means share it with me, head on over to Twitter and find me at HEVET, that's at HEY, E-V-E-T-E, or just look for the hashtag tweet trends and just drop the link in there for the app.
I wanna see it, I am very interested in those types of things and so I would greatly appreciate it if you would share that kind of stuff with me. And speaking of sharing, why not to share this episode with somebody because you never know, we can get this whole conservation ball rolling and then who knows how that could just drastically change the entire planet. And then we'd have some really awesome Earth days.