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Category: Sustainability
Sustainability
The Girl Who’d Like To Help Women Get An ID
Just learned about Elizabeth Nyamwange from Byron, Illinois, who recently received a $10,000 grant as part of the MIT Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge. Her invention (pictured above) is a solar-powered fingerprint scanner. Nyamwagne’s idea is to help women in emerging nations use biometrics and blockchain software to create a digital…
Nature
Pondering Children’s Books and Environmentalism
The recent fervor over Dr. Seuss has me pondering children’s literature more broadly. I happen to be someone who loves the “classics” – I studied the entire Lewis Carroll oeuvre in university (Sylvie and Bruno anyone?) and have reread the Narnia chronicles a bajillion times. However, I’ve never read any…
Sustainability
In Which I Talk About Myself
What between moving snow around and playing in same, I have been neglecting this blog again. If you’re missing me, I invite you to listen to this recent interview I did with Mike Barlow, host of Paid by the Word podcast.
Circular Economy
Here’s Something for Your Gadget Habit
I struggle frequently with my own consumption habits, especially my fondness for accessories such as smartphone covers or clutch wallets to trick out my clothes — which, ironically, are an average of 5 to 10 years old. So, it was with some excitement that I learned last year (and last…
Food
Dean Cycon: Is Your Coffee Habit Sustainable?
Liquor wasn’t the only beverage whose consumption trends were turned upside down by the coronavirus (sales have bubbled up more than 24%) — Americans are buying more premium coffee than ever for at-home brewing and imbibing. Coffee sales were predicted to rise almost 5% in 2020, according to research firm…
Aquaculture
Noshing on a ‘Kelp Burger’
For the past 16 months or so, I’ve been caught up in intermittently trying to follow a “migraine relief” diet suggested by my ear doctor. No, I’m not suffering from debilitating headaches (thank goodness) but I do have a hearing issue that is indicative of inflammation caused by certain foods….
Aquaculture
This Thanksgiving, Consider Resetting Your Relationship With Food
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 a turning point, for so…
Sustainability
What’s In A Label? Prepare for ‘Regenerative Organic’
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 particular attention as the east…
Purpose
What’s the Environmental Impact of that Gadget? Logitech Will Tell You
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 development I heard about in…