COLUMBUS GROCERIES – LOVE LOCAL, LIVE LOCALby Kyle Garvey in our series of locally owned stores.16 Markets covered, sample below. Read about themhttps://tinyurl.com/44nt6e45 For many years, Susann and John were two of Simply Living’s most dependable and capable volunteers, always helping at our large gatherings, including annual meetings and our […]
Month: June 2021
Columbus Groceries – Love Local, Live Local!
by Kyle Garvey *North Market is a 145-year-old covered market space, representing Ohio’s best independent merchants, farmers, and makers. Their Columbus location is 59 Spruce St. (43215) and their Dublin location is 6750 Longshore St. (43017). *Weiland’s Market has been independent and family-owned for 50 years! Their Clintonville location is 3600 Indianola […]
Columbus and Grove City should stick with Clean Energy
Note: The following op-ed piece by Simply Living Executive Director Cathy Cowan Becker appeared in the Columbus Dispatch on June 19, 2021. You can read it on the Dispatch site here. Voters in Columbus and Grove City approved electric aggregation for 100% renewable energy in November. As chair of Ready […]
Be the Change Weekly Community Update June 18, 2021
SIMPLY LIVING’S 2021SUSTAINABLE LIVING AND GARDEN TOUR SATURDAY, JULY 24 FROM 10 AM – 3 PMREGISTER FOR THE TOURSEE OUR NEW BROCHURE BELOW! Ohio Broadleaf Tree Identification-Part 2 Wednesday June 23 7 – 8:30 pm Virtual Slide Presentation on 50 Ohio Trees with Q&A If you missed Part 1 last […]
Cleaner Columbus Initiative Partners to Address Litter with Jobs and Volunteers
City Council Member Emmanuel Remy Op-Ed in the Dispatch, June 15 Remy chairs the Environment Committee for Columbus City Council. His op-ed outlines the work that has been accomplished in partnership with Keep Columbus Beautiful and volunteers organized to clean up litter and debris from the streets of Columbus. Excerpts […]
Be the Change Weekly Community Update June 11, 2021
Ohio Broadleaf Tree Identification-Parts 1 @ 2 Wednesdays June 16 and 23 7 – 8 pm Virtual Slide Presentations with Q&A If you wish you knew more about the unique characteristics of our Ohio trees, you will love this learning opportunity. This 2-part, slide presentation by Mort (Marty) Schmidt will […]
Simply Living wins Comfest grant for People’s Solar Project
Simply Living is thrilled to announce that the Comfest grants committee awarded the People’s Solar Project funds this year! The People’s Solar Project is a project to create a demonstration community solar and microgrid project that will generate 5 MW of solar energy to power 80 homes, five churches and […]
Be the Change Weekly Community Update June 4, 2021
Break Free From Plastic Pollution Teach-In & Actions June 30 @ 7 pm We know plastic pollution is a nightmare and hard to wrap our heads around… but did you know that the Sierra Club and others have introduced powerful Federal Legislation that can really make a difference? The Break Free […]
Happy World Environment Day!
Celebrate the 49th World Environment Day on June 5th! It’s often said that we have three homes: our bodies, our families (physical home) and our planet, Mother Earth. This upcoming Saturday, June 5th, we celebrate our third home, Earth, on World Environment Day. The first World Environment Day was celebrated […]
Columbus Tools
Summer’s here and it’s about time for some home improvement. But owning every tool you need, while obviously impractical and far from cost-effective, just doesn’t fit into a sustainable and harmonious local economy. Every tool in every garage is a crazily wasteful state of affairs, in Columbus or anywhere. That’s […]

