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Post-Exercise Reflection: For Initiative Exercise #2: '5 Unsolved Problems', the goal is to identify 5 unsolved problems that a specific group of people feel, and come up with a rudimentary solution for them. The exercise was one that I found pretty difficult the first time around - it&
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 humble toilet!
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
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,
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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
Conservation
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
About Me
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
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
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
Environmental Activism
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
Climate Change
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