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Food companies spent decades engineering the perfect craving. Now another industry is making billions helping us silence it. GLP-1s may be changing how we eat—but are we treating the symptom while leaving the system untouched?
Climate Change
When we talk about “solving climate change,” we often think of new technology, renewable energy, carbon bills, or planting trees. And no doubt, climate change is a huge problem…Personally it often feels like the biggest problem we've had in decades. Global greenhouse-gas emissions continue to soar,
Climate Change
If you’re anything like me, you probably grew up believing that the world is mostly fair. That if something was being sold in a store, it had gone through the right checks. That if a product was cheap, it was because someone had figured out how to make it
eco living
Got milk? Heck yeah, I do. But it doesn't come from these: I mean, honestly, when you really think about it, the idea of drinking milk is pretty gross right from the start. Come on, would you drink your mother's breastmilk right now? How about your
Conservation
Ka-whoooosh, sssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh, glug-waahhhh…..sssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…. Okay, I did my best. Who can tell me what household object makes this sound? Undoubtedly because my sound effect descriptions are terrible (I need to read more comic books), it is perfectly natural that you have no idea. The correct answer is the
About Me
Exercise #1: The Personal Essay Am I ever going to accomplish something truly significant? Am I too old now for becoming someone that could change the world, or even a small group of people only 1 degree of separation from me - a.k.a friends and family? Am I just
About Me
How many of you have read this blog since 2020? Probably not too many of you (Hi, mom and dad.). If you are one of those few, you'll remember a series of reflections I wrote for some Method Initiative exercises (you can still find them on this blog,
About Me
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
About Me
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
carbon footprint
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
activism
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
eco living
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