Your site for sustainable swapping & shopping in the Six
ABOUT ME
In early 2017, inspired by the book The Story of Stuff and the documentaries Before the Flood and The True Cost, I took the first step in my sustainable journey by starting an environmental club at the independent school where I teach full-time. The next big step in going green came a number of months later with the launch of my @conscious.cass Instagram blog.
Fast-forward a few years and I now eat mostly plant-based, live a low-waste lifestyle, choose to shop secondhand as often as I can, and drive an electric vehicle. On the work front, in addition to being the staff lead of the Environmental Committee (formerly club) at my school, I am also our Green Initiatives Coordinator. And although my Instagram blog continues to grow slowly, I've noticed that a lot of my followers already live a sustainable lifestyle... This website is my way of attempting to reach a wider audience and show how simple it can be to swap and shop sustainably in the Six!
Site Setup
SWAPS
Each page identifies sustainable swaps you can make and highlights the cost comparison (see legend at bottom of each page) to the conventional versions
of the items.
CONSUME
CONSCIOUSLY
From shopping locally, sustainably & secondhand, to awesome apps and recycling right tips, these pages show just how many options there are for conscious consuming (and disposal) in our
city!
ECO MADE EASY
And you thought there were only three Rs... This page contains tips, tricks and links in the form of fourteen Rs to help
make ecofriendly
living easy!
Conscious Confession
I am a privileged, white, cisgender woman with the means to live a sustainable lifestyle...
Throughout my Conscious Cass journey, but especially from the research done to create this website, I've learned the hard truth that sustainability can be beyond inaccessible for so many reasons (cost, convenience, etc.) It honestly makes me feel so helpless, but I didn't let that feeling stop me from creating what I hope can be a valuable resource for everyone regardless of your circumstances or where you are along your path to sustainable living, which, by the way, is an imperfect and never-ending one for all of us! Please feel free to reach out to me at consciouscassandra@gmail.com if you're faced with challenges and hopefully I can help you find the best way forward!