sustainability

  • Tips for Reducing Plastic Exposure

    Lies fed to us, & how we can protect ourselves Plastic lies we’ve been told It’s becoming an age-old story: manipulation of the public by industry, motivated by profits. We’ve seen this same playbook by the tobacco industry, the fossil fuel industry,… Continue reading

    Tips for Reducing Plastic Exposure
  • Plastics are a Women’s Health Crisis

    Pissed about plastic The global plastics treaty that isn’t The sixth round of negotiations on a UN global plastics treaty just wrapped on August 14, with absolutely nothing to show for it. Work on the treaty began in 2022 and… Continue reading

    Plastics are a Women’s Health Crisis
  • Building a Thriving Ecosystem at Home

    A native yard success story Someone recently asked me what I miss about living in Missouri. My answer kind of surprised me: bugs. As a San Francisco resident now, I miss the humid environment I grew up in, not because… Continue reading

    Building a Thriving Ecosystem at Home
  • Guide to More Ethical Travel

    Today is June 5, 2025. For many, that means summer break is quickly approaching. Work loads starting to lighten, schools closing for the season, temperatures rising, the days lengthening. Prime time for travel. Family vacations, trips with friends, solo excursions… Continue reading

    Guide to More Ethical Travel
  • New Ways to Tell the Story of Climate

    Solutions to Climate’s Communication Crisis The climate crisis is the defining story of our time. And yet, it only seems to be treated as such in ‘climate spaces’ – explicitly climate events, work environments, activist groups. It seems as though the… Continue reading

    New Ways to Tell the Story of Climate
  • The Plague of Climate Hopelessness

    When you think about the changing climate, do you feel the joy of potential societal transformation, or do you feel despair and hopelessness?  Chances are it’s the latter, especially if you’re Gen Z.  Climate hopelessness is an epidemic. Pessimism is… Continue reading

    The Plague of Climate Hopelessness
  • How Much Progress Are We Actually Making on Climate?

    It’s Climate Week in San Francisco, and I’m reflecting on what I find the hardest thing to explain to ‘non-climate people’ (aka, people who don’t frequently think about their work and life through the lens of climate). How bad is it really… Continue reading

    How Much Progress Are We Actually Making on Climate?
  • Climate, as a Racial Justice Solution

    An opportunity to entrench or redress racial harms This Black History Month, Black American adults are 30% more likely to have asthma than White Americans, three times as likely to die from exposure to pollution once age 65, 75% more likely to live in… Continue reading

    Climate, as a Racial Justice Solution
  • Introducing Clarity in Catastrophe

    For people craving clarity about how to make the world a better place. Hi there! As I launch this new endeavor I’ve named Clarity in Catastrophe, I want to first share a bit about who I am and why I’m here.… Continue reading

    Introducing Clarity in Catastrophe