Environment Series

Machaelle Wright's work, Perelandra, started with her caring about the environment. Beginning in 1975, while quietly working in her home garden she encountered problems. She looked for help, but the answers provided by "garden experts" often waged war on nature. Even the "organic" solutions pitted man against nature. Finding no satisfactory help from humans on the subject, in 1977, Machaelle turned to nature for answers. That was over 40 years ago.

Today, the driving engine at Perelandra is still Machaelle's partnership with nature, and her research garden. What drives the Perelandra business is you — your desire to stop waging war on nature and find a better way. You are the people who care about the environment and its impact on your health, your family's health and the quality of the food you're eating, the water you're drinking and the air you're breathing.

This is what Perelandra is about. Perelandra is not about simply enjoying nature, or protecting nature. Perelandra is about how to work with nature to solve problems. This includes how to solve the environmental problems we humans have created. You may have noticed — we have some serious environmental problems.

In this series, we present one simple thing you can do with each post, one action to address the problems in your environment.

What you can do next for the environment.

The monthly Perelandra EoP Biodiversity Process is a simple, quick (just five minutes) way for all of us to band together to help counter climate change and loss of biodiversity. As the network builds and the months turn into years of all of us doing this process ...

An alternative to one of those plastic things we bet you use.

Did you know each plastic phone case generates about half a pound of plastic?! There are more than 250 million smartphones in the U.S. alone. Every time we buy one of those handy plastic cases to help our smartphone last longer, we are unnecessarily adding to the already more than 8 million tons of plastic dumped into our oceans ...

Cushiony Soft, At What Cost?

Here's a topic most folks put little thought to, but like many of our mindless routines and conveniences, we must consider the impact and change habits for the sake of our environment ...

Ecological Shopping and Donating

Many organizations fighting for ecology and wildlife need our support. Often during the last few days of the calendar year, large donors will match donations from "regular folks" like us. It's a way to double the value of each contribution ...

Energy Vampires . . . Constant small drains on electricity add up to a big environmental impact.

In the week leading up to Halloween, multiple news outlets and groups advocating for the environment posted articles about energy vampires — those electrical devices we leave plugged in, even when not in use, that are sucking "just a little bit" of juice all day long ...

Hair Salons Redefining "Eco-Friendly Beauty"

Here is an idea for one quick, easy change you can make in your life that will reduce your use of toxic chemicals and plastics. For starters ...

Hope, and a warning.

Who couldn't use a little hope right now? This clip from a National Geographic series shows beautifully how nature can recover from human destruction — if humans get out of the way ...

Inspire Our Kids . . . and Yourself!

Help that young future environmental warrior with a project to change family habits, change his school's habits, wake up the community or get the neighbors committed to reducing plastic waste ...

Recycling Perelandra Bottles

April 20, 2019 Recycling Perelandra Bottles Answering a frequently asked question. A Series on the Environment from the Question Line DuoIn the past, customers have occasionally asked if they could send their empty bottles and droppers back to us for reuse. Happily, as more of you are being pro- ...

Serious Motivation!

Today, let's take a moment to celebrate the awesome power of one individual, and let him inspire you to expand your efforts for the environment. We're writing this with overflowing enthusiasm and appreciation for Modou Fall, and those who join him in his quest ...