I've been practicing zero waste for a year! I can't believe there was life before this. I grew up in a meat-eating trash-making household, like I'm assuming most of you did too. We didn't and still don't have easy access to recycling in my hometown, so we didn't recycle. (My parents recycle now, but you [...]
Category: life
The case for individual action
There's a lot a lot going on politically right now that is super stressful and I totally understand if the environment is the last thing on your mind (even though... environmental issues are totally race and gender issues too..). Anyway I'm going to write about this as a coping mechanism and I hope you'll read [...]
Education
Two reasons for this title today, friends. One: The March challenge of the week is to sponsor a girl so that she may receive an education. Whatever this means to you. You might begin sponsoring a child through a nonprofit and monthly financial donations. You might begin tutoring or mentoring. You might take some extra [...]
Impact
Hi! If you haven't read my post from last week, go ahead and do that first. Okay... Great. Last week's challenge was donating to a teacher in any sort of way. I ended up getting prayer requests more than anything and talked a little with a friend frustrated with the way her school was running [...]
Empowering
March's theme for our year of sustainability based on this plan is about empowering women. I love that. I love that in a year of mostly focusing specifically on environmental practices, we are taking the time to talk about gender and race and how environment is tied in with all of life. I got really [...]
Plants
Jumping right into it, I'd like to announce to the blog world that I've taken on a year of sustainable living journey on my personal instagram, which I've made public (at least for now, until I freak myself out again having it public lol, right?). Anyway it's right here if you want to follow along. [...]
day 62
Since I wrote last... We've gone from Spokane to Missoula to Big Sky to Rapid City to Mitchell to Minneapolis to Chicago to Clearfield to where we are now. A huge part of this trip was trying to figure out where we wanted to live. We moved out of New York City and lived with [...]
day 48
I can't believe we've been traveling for almost 50 days. Since we last met... We've gone from Grover Beach to Big Sur to Santa Cruz to San Francisco to Jenner to Redcrest to Brookings to Portland to Seattle and where we are now. My travel instagram is still catching up, which is fine because I [...]
day 35
Since we last met, my parents flew to Phoenix, joined our very full jeep and off we went. From Phoenix to Flagstaff to Sedona to Grand Canyon to Page to Cedar City to Springdale to Las Vegas. Then they flew home from Las Vegas while Matt and I continued on to Death Valley to Joshua [...]
day 23
We're in the desert! In the six days since I wrote last, we've driven around 950 miles. From Austin to Alamogordo to Tucson. Up until we crossed into the desert, it didn't feel like we were that far from home. The Texas we saw and all the stops before looked pretty similar to our home. [...]
