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Sustainability for individuals: Stories on mindset, actions and the big WHY. Not here for eco-swaps. You can do this—so let’s do it. Cats & collages included.
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My Sustainability Notebook—or My Sus field notes #01 (opens the original)
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So much of what I read about, or think about, or investigate in a given week doesn’t make it into a Substack post. I had the thought of doing a bi-weekly series, where I share some of these field notes and rabbit holes. A Sustainability Notebook, so to speak. These will be generally shorter, denser, less polished, and not authoritative. Giving it a whirl—this is this week in My Sus.I found a lump.This may not seem sus related, but I’ll get there. In August, I found a lump in my breast. This was
How do I imagine our sustainable world? (opens the original)
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About a month ago, it occurred to me that a short story was in order. I’ve read so much about how we need to imagine our sustainable world before we can build it, and I believe that to be true. But anytime I think about this future sus world—I can’t see it. Instead, I’m flooded by all the voices that tell me it can’t be done, the people who scream at me that they won’t change, and just a fundamental lack of images that make any kind of sense to me. What does it look like? What does it feel like?
Are the emulsifiers in plant milks gonna kill me? Should I go back to the cow? (opens the original)
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Some of my posts are self-serving, and this is one of them.A year ago, I stopped drinking plant-based milks. I had been turned on to the Yuka app by my therapist. Basically, you scan items in the grocery store—food, deodorant, candy, what have you, and it rates them zero-100, zero being bad.Imagine my surprise, when nearly all the plant milks in my grocery store ranked poorly. Often around 40. This app looks not just at sugar, fat or salt—but additives, chemicals, and likely pesticide use. I onl
The greenest kilowatt-hour is still the one you never use. (opens the original)
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This piece began three weeks ago—very easy, very succinct, laid out in plaids and yellows in my mind. I set out to discuss home energy—20 percent1 of annual U.S. greenhouse gas emissions—that ball-and-chain of heating and cooling—a place where we can all afford to give more thought juice—I thought. A place where we have perhaps more control than we realize.And then I turned to face full-bore the specter of green energy. Setting te
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