Just a heads up – This week I was feeling both thoughtful and a little bleak and gloomy, so I wanted to take all of those thoughts out of my head and put them somewhere. So they ended up here. My apologies if it’s a little dark, but I think as someone who is generally optimistic about the future, sometimes […]
Leah Rampy is a teacher, leadership consultant, and author of Earth & Soul: Reconnecting Amid Climate Chaos, who combines spirituality, ecology, and storytelling to guide individuals toward a deeper connection with the natural world and a sustainable way of living. Find Leah Rampy and Earth & Soul online: Find me online:
It’s 6:13am. I’m in my living room laying flat on the floor on my stomach. Chest heaving up and down as I take quick, gasping breaths. My legs and arms feel like they’re burning. My forehead is slightly damp with sweat. I just finished my second set of burpees for the day, and as usual, they kick my butt. Like […]
We covered my three pillars of sustainability, went into detail on how I use the lens of health and the lens of happiness to shape my behavior, and now it’s time for the final pillar and lens: connection. In a way, I feel like connection is the pillar that really ties everything together – I can be at the top […]
Barrett Klein investigates mysteries of sleep in societies of insects, creates entomo-art, and is ever on the search for curious connections that bind our lives with our six-legged allies. Barrett studied entomology at Cornell University and the University of Arizona, fabricated natural history exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, worked with honeybees for his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, […]
3/8/25 Note: This week I was hit by some kind of stomach bug which made it really hard for me to get to my computer to write a blog post about my third pillar of sustainability, connection. So, I decided to interrupt my scheduled blog post for one that I wrote a week ago that I planned on posting at […]
In my previous two posts, I described my three pillars to a meaningful life: health, happiness, and connection. They are 3 lenses that I use to evaluate everything I do in life and see whether it’s contributing positively to my life or not. Then I went into a bit more detail about how I use the lens of health. Now […]
Maddie Hamann is the Co-Founder and Director of Marketing at PACHA Bread, where she applies her extensive scientific background to drive the company’s mission of promoting regenerative agriculture and sustainability. Maddie holds a PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, but she transitioned from the field of Earth Science to marketing in order to make a direct impact on climate change […]
In my previous post, I described my three pillars to a meaningful life: health, happiness, and connection. They are 3 lenses that I use to evaluate everything I do in life and see whether it’s contributing positively to my life or not. Health is the first and most obvious one to understand why I include it. Why health is foundational […]
As a blogger, podcast host, and attempted influencer, I spend a lot of time thinking about sustainability, but also how to recruit more people to the cause of living a life that is better for you and better for the planet. “Save the Planet” works great on people whose values are to help wildlife or preserve natural spaces (people like […]