It’s just the two of us this year for Thanksgiving, and while I feel a pang of disappointment about not getting to nurture my inner comfort-food chef, this will probably be the most memorable edition of this particular holiday in my life. It feels like…
Last year, I started a wacky elimination diet to address a health issue — successfully I might add. Before that date, I’ll be honest: I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to food labels. Things are different now. There’s one label that has my…
Let me be transparent about something. I can’t remember a busier summer for announcements related to corporate sustainability initiatives. I’m not complaining, I’m encouraged. That is why it has taken me more than two months to process what I’d like to say about an intriguing…
It’s been a cranky sort of week, so I decide to write about something that will make me uncranky — although I’m not exactly sure when I’ll be able to post this article, since my internet service provider Optimum has been asleep at the wheel…
We’re wrapping up what I affectionately refer to as corporate social responsibility report season, during which I am deluged on an almost daily basis with lengthy digital documents packed with updates about corporate sustainability initiatives. I almost never write about these things, despite all the…
Most of us probably don’t think of mining as an earth-friendly process, so addressing it is one of the most important — and specific — things that jewelry companies can do to reduce their carbon footprint. That’s the motivation behind Danish company Pandora’s pledge in…
Many, many, many big companies have made commitments to reducing the flow of plastics into the oceans. HP Inc. is now using materials have been recovered through its four-year-old initiative in Haiti in at least four different product line. It’s only a teeny-tiny bit, but…
As of yesterday, there were 55 “presumptive positive” cases of COVID-19 in my small Northern New Jersey town. I don’t know who my ailing neighbors are, and that gives me some comfort that I haven’t been exposed to the virus — because if I had…
As we are all beginning to discover, the complicated science of logistics doesn’t always respond so well to unknown variables. The extreme household toilet paper shortage is only partially due to panic buying — the reality is that people really DO need more of the…
Greetings from Bergen County in New Jersey, where my socially-isolated spirits have been raised by my afternoon session in the garden. I just spent some time perusing the news for positive news related to the coronavirus crisis, and came across this update from Apple: it…