Learning To Lead: Essay #1: The Personal Essay

Learning To Lead: Essay #1: The Personal Essay

Leadership Step By Step, Unit 1: Understanding Yourself – The Personal Essay (Essay #1) Recently, I’ve started reading Joshua Spodek’s Leadership Step By Step, a book that teaches, as the title suggests, a step by step methodology for becoming a better leader in whatever area you choose. Each chapter ends with an exercise that he recommends you do to advance […]

The Trash Can IS The Environment

The Trash Can IS The Environment

Throwing away trash…It’s so addictively easy. Can’t figure out what to do with all that plastic packaging? How about all these food scraps? Old ripped clothes or a broken TV? Just toss it all in the trash and you never have to worry about it again. Have you ever thought about what you would do if you DIDN’T have that […]

TSL: SFN – 8 Billion Day w/ Michael Bayliss

TSL: SFN – 8 Billion Day w/ Michael Bayliss

Today I’m following up with Michael Bayliss, host of the Post-Growth Australia Podcast (PGAP), activist for within the environmental and post-growth movements, Communications Manager and former Victoria/Tasmanian President at Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). Last time we spoke, he decided to taken on a personal challenge, but the challenge ended up taking a life of it’s own and evolved into a project […]

Kombucha Journey, Start!

Kombucha Journey, Start!

As far as sustainable drinks go, nothing beats water. It’s healthy, plentiful, doesn’t have to come packaged in plastic or even bottles. It just gets piped straight into our homes! But drinking nothing but water can get kind of dull, and trying to find other things to drink that don’t come in plastic can be tough. I drink soy milk […]

TSL: SFN – This Sustainable House w/ Anna DeSimone

TSL: SFN – This Sustainable House w/ Anna DeSimone

Anna DeSimone is the author of Live In A Home That Pays You Back, Housing Finance 2020: New Mortgage Programs for the New Generation of Homebuyers, Retirement Planning and Investing, and Welcome to the Agrihood: Housing, Shopping, and Gardening for a Farm-to-Table Lifestyle. She is a nationally recognized expert in housing finance, and author of more than 40 professional guidebooks […]

A New Chapter for Verdant Growth

A New Chapter for Verdant Growth

Hey world, it’s me, Eugene. I’m baaaack. Where’ve you been? For those of you who don’t know, back in April 2021, I moved back to the United States after living abroad for almost 10 years (3 years in South Korea and 7 years in Japan). I was an English teacher for pretty much the whole time, but I always wanted […]

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