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There's this nice thing that comes from doing sustainable things: it almost always has positive effects in other, related areas as well. Some examples: * Eating less meat is good for the planet (less pollution associated with raising livestock), but it's also good for your health and
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Learning To Dad-mode My newborn baby son, Jin, just turned one-month old. He’s doing great: he’s eating a ton, he’s super healthy, he sleeps a lot, and he’s learning so much about the world. We love him more than anything! Me, on the other hand, well.
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Lizzie Horvitz has been passionate about sustainability since the age of 16 when she lived off the grid. It was there that, depending only on wind energy and rainwater, she saw the solution of climate change before fully understanding the problem. She founded Finch, a browser extension that helps you
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I'm now getting prepared for one of the biggest challenges I've ever faced: becoming father to a newborn baby boy…And trying to be as sustainable as possible. Raising a baby is hard enough, but trying to do it in a way that is sustainable in
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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
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Capitalism Regardless of whether you think capitalism is a good economic system or not, there are certainly reasons to dislike capitalism. In the most fundamental form, it is a system based on the desire to maximize profit and hence greed, even at the expense of others. It incentivizes pollution, it
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I very often find myself feeling misunderstood by those around me; feeling like there's some kind of gap between my mindset and that of others. There is something that resonates inside of me that doesn't seem to resonate with those around me. And today, I found
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Today, I have something a little different for you. Usually, I'm interviewing someone on my podcast, but today, I'm the one getting interviewed! Some of you may know, I recently moved to Hawaii and ended up buying a home here. However, in looking for a house,
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Convenience is great, isn't it? Like many people, until recently, I assumed that convenience is always a good thing. Why would something becoming more convenient hurt? It makes my life easier. Convenience = Easier...For me! Driving a motorcycle instead of a bike? You go faster and farther in
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I've decided to quit Amazon. I might be a little late to the party on this one (or maybe not, since Amazon is still one of the most profiting companies in the world), but I've decided it's time to quit buying from Amazon. I,
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This week, I decided to take action to eliminate something that I felt was a growing problem in my life: increasing smartphone use. I've never considered myself to be a heavy smartphone user: I can't stand scrolling through Instagram for more than a minute or two,
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How the normalized human experience has become completely unnatural When you bike instead of drive, you start to notice a lot more about your neighborhood: shops you didn't realize were there, some cool wall art or flower patches you hadn't noticed, or how much litter is