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.

Fire. Flood. Hurricane. Tornado. Have your ETS?

Do you know where your Disaster Go Bag is? Does it still have enough ETS in it for you and your family? And enough ETS for Animals for your pets? ...

Plastic Free 4th of July! (P.S. Stay Home)

As the Plastic Free Challenge has grown and reached the U.S., the benefit of it coinciding with one of our most single-use-plastic-filled holidays is clear. Think about what you and your household will consume this weekend alone. Look at the single-use plastics you intend to use such as 'disposable plates, utensils, cups ...

How to support your actions, and your health, with EoP

Keep the momentum of change going. Use EoP to strengthen your efforts to make a difference and combat racism — in yourself, in your community, in our culture ...

Mardi Gras Plastic and Food Waste

Mardi Gras season and Fat Tuesday celebrations are now ubiquitous. Most folks don't know the origins of the holiday, and they aren't partying in anticipation of giving something up for Lent. Unfortunately, it has morphed into quite a trash-producing time of year in the last several decades ...

Lack of Biodiversity = Rogue Microbes

Knowledge is power, and knowledge motivates. Knowing what is happening in the bigger picture allows us to better apply the power of our individual choices — taking that extra few minutes to evaluate a purchase ...

More Joy, Less Waste: Our recycled, zero-waste gift wrap!

In our last Environment Series post, we encouraged everyone to rethink your gift wrapping choices. Then we looked at our gift-wrapping options here at Perelandra and decided to take our own advice ...

Make the planet a better place, support educating girls and women.

With this in mind, and our commitment to nature and the environment our motivation, we are linking you to organizations that support the education and economic empowerment of girls and women all around the globe ...

A bird-friendly, fair-trade, zero-waste Halloween.

Sometimes, when a holiday rolls around, our efforts to be part of the solution on climate change and environmental balance go out the window in favor of the easy decoration and the fun-size candy ...

Fire. Meat. Power.

Why are we not reducing our emissions? Why are they in fact still increasing? Are we knowingly causing a mass extinction? Are we evil? No, of course not. People keep doing what they do because the vast majority doesn't have a clue about the actual consequences of our everyday life, and they don't ...

Recycling Wake-Up Call ~ Plastic Free July

Recycling our bottles, cans and boxes is easier than ever, especially as more and more "single stream" recycling centers were established. One problem is, now we don't know what is and isn't recyclable anymore. When recycling loads are contaminated with items that should have gone to the trash, often the entire load has to be sent to a landfill ...