For those of you wondering where the heck I disappeared to, worry not! I’ve just hopped down to the Big island to start a new volunteer gig. 😉 That’s my house, right there ^. I’ve decided that slate glass windows really are fantastic. Anyway. For the next 2 months, I’ll be working with USGS on their…
Sorry for the bad pun, but I had to grab your attention somehow. 🙂 Today I’m going to deviate for a moment and discuss something not entirely related to plastic. Today’s topic is wind. Wind farming, to be exact. Why do I want to devote an entire blog post to this? Well, for one, all…
Something we all know:Â Nature. Is. Awesome. Why are we leveling rain forests for corn and cattle, when there exists fungi that have the potential to partially solve the growing global waste-management crisis? Why are you ruining nature, big faceless corporations?! *shakes fist* Because we are in a crisis. If you weren’t aware of it five…
Three weeks after Christmas… So why am I even bothering writing a post about Christmas when it’s mid-January? Because my Christmas was too awesome not to write about! Yes, there were great gifts (more on that in a minute) but there were also great friends, family and more food than I care to think about. Not…
Dear Readers, I think I can safely say that this last week is the first since the conference that I have felt as elated, accomplished and generally PSYCHED to talk trash. I am inspired. I had a moment today when I realized that what I’m doing now is exactly what I want to be doing and…
Hello Friends! Today I’m going to take a break from ranting about plastic to instead write about a totally awesome event I participated in this past weekend: Moving Planet Vermont. What was Moving Planet? Well…first, you need to know that it wasn’t just a Vermont thing. No, this event spanned 175 countries…all on one day….
Readers, I need to blow off some steam, so pardon the following rant. I’m hoping some of you can empathize: Maybe it’s just me. Maybe it’s because I’ve seen what trash does when it gets out of your garbage can and into a part of the world where people rarely are. I’ve seen the waste…
Where did summer go? One minute I setting up a garden with my roommates, the next I’m staring at my now-defunct cucumber plants and watching as all the college kids come back into town. Shipyard Pumpkinhead is on the shelves at our local grocery store, so I suppose I had better accept my fate. Autumn…
Hey guys, I’m sorry it’s been so long! It seems like just yesterday (oh, clichés…) that I was returning from Hawaii, all jazzed about the amount of plastic pollution experts I had mingled with. But then I started interning at Seventh Generation and it was work, work, work then BAM! Time to move. Then BAM!…
My previous post was all about inspiration and getting out of the sea of bad news that seems to surround us on a day-to-day basis. For Earth Day 2011, here’s one of the things I’m doing to take action and be optimistic about our future: writing a letter to a restaurant in my area, asking…
I’ve never been a big fans of Sundays. It’s the day before Monday, the start of the work week (which isn’t always a bad thing!) and the day after Saturday, which means the weekend is almost over…*sigh*. Sundays are always the days when I feel the most melancholy, possibly because it’s one of the few…