1:30am. The baby is starting to fuss. He’s hungry. Another 15 minutes and he’ll start really wailing. Time to nip this in the bud and go get some milk. The weight of my body feels like it’s been multiplied as I try to pull myself out of bed, but dreading what will come if I don’t move, I manage to […]
Ever wish you could ditch the guilt associated with throwing away a tube of toothpaste every month? Do you ever go to the supermarket toothpaste aisle and just feel like all the different kinds of toothpastes flavors and benefits are just a bunch of marketing ploys designed to make them all sound better than they actually are? Do you ever […]
First, the tadpoles and frogs disappeared; then the bats and the songbirds left. Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn, a honey bee veterinarian and environmental health scientist, soon realized the bees—the vital pollinators of fruits, plants, and vegetables—were dying. Everything was still and silent. In 2017, after a large flood, most of the teeming life on her beloved family farm in North Carolina […]
Recently, I’ve been fighting with myself and thinking a lot about what I want this blog to be – Asking myself questions like what should readers expect when they visit my blog? What kind of content would resonate best with my target audience? And with me? Who should my target audience be? What suits my writing style and life? High-level […]
Humans Lived Sustainably for Most of Human History 300,000 years. That is how long humankind lived sustainably – never taking more resources than the planet could replenish or causing irreparable damage. It was an time when we had a deep connection to nature and a profound understanding of our dependence on it. Activities such as tree cutting were carried out […]
Did you vote in the last election? Why would you? Your impact is too small to make a difference. There are so many people voting yours barely matters. Maybe you’re in a state that doesn’t even have that many electoral votes, so now your vote matters even less. The chances of one person’s vote tipping the scales are infinitesimally small. […]
We are not apart from nature.We are a part of nature.We are nature.And nature is us. Harm we do to nature is harm we do ourselves.Good we do to nature is good we do ourselves.We are nature.And nature is us. This is a set of sentences (Dare I call them a poem?) that I’ve been thinking about a lot recently. […]
Tim Sperry, the CEO of Carbon Limit, is a scientist entrepreneur who has founded two climate tech companies using novel Carbon Capture & storage technologies. After losing close family members as a child to lung cancer, he developed a strong passion for protecting nature and solving global CO2 pollution. He has found early success by creating effective yet efficiently adaptable […]
We need more energy!…Or do we? Energy is undeniably a driving force behind our modern standard of living. From refrigerators that keep our food fresh to cars that transport us quickly, and air conditioning that regulates our comfort, our reliance on energy continues to grow. However, the notion that more energy automatically equates to a better life is flawed, and […]
When hosting the This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature podcast, I’m frequently helping others try to find personal challenges in sustainability. The goal is always to find a challenge that aligns with my guest’s values. This means focusing on my guest’s experiences in nature and what they love to feel in those environments, and then help guide them towards a […]