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THE BEST PODCASTS ON HEALTH, SUSTAINABILITY, AND MINDFULNESS.
THE TRUTH BEHIND ZERO WASTE: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE PRIVILEGE.
THE TRUTH BEHIND ZERO WASTE: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE PRIVILEGE.
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WHAT I EAT IN A DAY, AS A PALEO-VEGAN

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Sometimes I just want to see nature; to be reminded of beauty that hasn’t been facetuned or photoshopped... bought in a store or manufactured. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ 🌲Sometimes I just want to unfollow everyone that doesn’t post things like this every day. And sometimes I want to delete all of my content and start over. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ When I share the things that are alarming in the world, I am aware of the anxiety they can induce and I feel bad for spreading the panic.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ I honestly don’t know what the right answer is sometimes. But I lean towards the belief that many people still don’t know what’s going wrong, and since we have a narrow window to act, I should do my best to spread the word.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ 👉🏼What do you all think about the content I share? Would you like more beauty and positive inspiration sprinkled in with the truth?⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ I never want to be the cause of apathy and impossible-to-overcome overwhelm. I just want to inspire positive change, and fast. We are in a #climateemergency, yes. But I also want to be effective.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ THANK YOU SO MUCH for reading this far, and for your honest feedback. This community means the world to me 🙏🏼🌿⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ #climateaction #climatechangeisreal #climateactionnow #keepitintheground #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike
A landscape untarnished by human destruction, clouds passing on a warm summer day, and the cutest pup (who may or may not need to be bribed to look at the camera).... some of my favorite things. ⁣ ⁣ 🌿Yes, there is a lot of horror happening in the world right now, but one of my biggest goals and intentions this year is to never forget the beauty that still exists around me.... to remember it and ENJOY IT. ⁣ ⁣ What’s the point of constantly advocating for positive, environmental change if I never spend time in it myself.🌎This is also a form of blissful rebellion for me because, let’s be honest, if I didn’t take this time for myself I’d be so much more likely to burn out and give up.⁣ ⁣ How do you refuel? What brings you joy?⁣ ⁣ #climateaction #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #climateactionnow #catskillsmountains #skypornography
“New rules that will significantly weaken the way the US Endangered Species Act are applied, potentially opening the way for mining, oil and gas drilling and development were announced on Monday. The rules affect future listings and threaten to throw into reverse the enormous success over nearly 50 years of saving animals and plants from extinction and elevating their prospects.⁣ ⁣ Unable to kill the act legislatively because of strong bipartisan support, Trump has now taken it upon himself to eviscerate it by gutting regulations that make it effective. Perhaps most crucially, the rule diminishes “critical habitat” protections, like those for areas formerly occupied by now-endangered species. ⁣ ⁣ The rule is intended to impede the listing process and ignore declining habitat viability caused by climate change. And for the first time, a tally of financial considerations will accompany discussions on the fate of species. ⁣ ⁣ It used to be that animals did not need us. Now they do. Unless we value their existence, the modern tide will engulf and obliterate them. Their survival — like our great-grandchildren’s — is a moral matter. No religion has ever preached that our role on earth is to destroy, or to leave less for those who’ll come after us. No wisdom tradition teaches that it’s O.K. for a generation to drive the world toward ruin. We are taught instead that we must safely pilot the ark.⁣ ⁣ The tragedy of this situation is that the Endangered Species Act has been such an enormous success in the United States that it is the model for other countries around the world.”- Carl Safina of the NYtimes.⁣ ⁣ #endangeredspecies #stoppebblemine #keepitintheground #climateaction #climatestrike #climatechangeisreal #climateactionnow #fridaysforfuture
THIS FORK CHANGES EVERYTHING 🌎 Use this fork from home, instead of a single-use plastic one, and miraculously the climate crisis will end tomorrow! ⁣ ⁣ 💫Use your Tupperware filled with a homemade salad instead of heavily processed takeout, and landfill waste will instantly vanish into the ether!⁣ ⁣ 🌈Refill your reusable water bottle, instead of buying plastic soda pop while you’re out, and rainbows will replace the toxic air we’ve been breathing since the industrial revolution in an flash!⁣ ⁣ 🦄And here’s the REAL changemaker: use a fancy mesh bag, instead of those throwaway plastic ones to carry all your stuff, and all of the extinct species will rain down from the heavens, repopulating our Earth to save us!⁣ ⁣ Isn’t it just dreamy!?⁣ ⁣ But on the real though, all that is complete bullshit. But just bc it’s bullshit doesn’t ⁣ mean I won’t try my best to lessen my impact. ...To do my best in the ways I easily can. Because yes, the “vote with your dollar” and “don’t be a litterbug” campaigns were heavily funded by corporate lobbies to place the burden on everyday people... So that they could keep producing shitty waste at no cost to them. But that doesn’t mean that I have to participate in all the bad stuff, all of the time, when it can easily be avoided for free.⁣ ⁣ Thank you for reading about my fork this far...⁣ ⁣ 👉🏼And as I have said before, just because I am doing this along w/ a lot of other white “influencers”, it doesn’t mean that we were the ones who figured this out. Frontline communities, BIPOC, and poor have been doing this out of necessity since the “modern” age allowed others to become throw-away, consumption-based societies, unsustainable societies. We have to acknowledge that they are still, and have been historically, inherently more sustainable than we. As the eco community is finally embracing reusing and repurposing, we mustn’t forget that we are NOT the face of this movement, and cannot claim to be so.⁣ ⁣ #zerowasteIRL #climateaction #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #keepitintheground #zerowasteliving #climateemergency #climatechangeisreal
#stoppebblemine 🚨Pass is on! ☠️ "If that mine gets put in, it would ... completely devastate our region. It would not only kill our resources, but it would kill us culturally." —Gayla Hoseth, Curyung Tribal Council/Bristol Bay Native Association 👉🏼Swipe to watch full coverage from CNN: “The EPA told staff scientists it was no longer opposing a controversial Alaska mining project that could devastate one of the world's most valuable wild salmon fisheries just one day after President Donald Trump met with Alaska's governor, CNN has learned. The news came as a ‘total shock’ to some top EPA scientists who were planning to oppose the project on environmental grounds, according to sources. CNN's Drew Griffin reports.” #keepitintheground #climateactionnow #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #climatechangeisreal #climateaction
🚨On Sept 20, three days before a UN emergency climate summit in New York, #FridaysForFuture is mobilizing the largest global climate strike ever. ⁣ ⁣ 🔥As we deal with devastating climate breakdown and hurtle towards dangerous tipping points, young people are calling on millions of us, of all ages, across the planet to disrupt business as usual by joining. ⁣ ⁣ Going on climate strike means people everywhere walking out of their homes, their offices, their farms, their factories. ⁣ ⁣ 🚨Everyone is needed to disrupt business as usual: from sports stars, actors and teachers to food industry workers, psychologists, delivery drivers and everything in between. We can all take part, whatever our circumstances, by refusing to accept the status quo.⁣ ⁣ 🌏Already people in 150 countries are organizing for the global climate strikes this September. Some will spend the day in protest against new pipelines and mines, or the banks that fund them; some will highlight the oil companies fuelling this crisis and the politicians that enable them. Others will spend the day in action raising awareness in their communities and pushing for solutions to the climate crisis that have justice and equity at their heart. ⁣ ⁣ On a grossly unequal planet, not everyone will be able to take a day off or take part in the same way. But we can all do our best to take a stand and make our voices heard.⁣ ⁣ 🔥If you are as privileged as me, and able to take the day off and join, PLEASE DO. On September 20th and 27th, the world needs you!⁣🙏🏼 ⁣ #globalclimatestrike #climateaction #climatestrike #climateactionnow #climatechangeisreal #climateemergency #keepitintheground
”We don't have 12 years to curb climate change, but more likely 16 months instead.🔥 ⁣ ⁣ Climate scientist Ian Mauro from the University of Winnipeg says, ‘We need to bring down our emissions and peak by the end of 2020. Either we’re going to see global governments balk at this, miss the bus, and put our fate as a species literally in jeopardy or we’re going to see a globally-coordinated response.’⁣ ⁣ 👉🏼Individuals are realizing that our individual actions aren’t enough. But we can try and make a big political impact by coming together and demanding change.”⁣ ⁣ Will our political and corporate leaders step up in time? “With mass losses from Greenland this past week already approaching levels not expected until 2070 based on the best available models,” I am more and more scared.🔥⁣ ⁣ #climatechangeisreal #keepitintheground #climatestrike #climateactionnow #climateaction #fridaysforfuture
PLEASE READ AND SHARE🚨If we are to be successful as eco revolutionaries, we must learn from indigenous communities. We must know how to feed ourselves... How live off the land.🌿This quote from #BillMollison about the futility of movements unarmed with agricultural skills says it all.🌎WE ARE FACING A CLIMATE EMERGENCY🔥 The window of opportunity to learn is narrow. #permaculture #regenerativeagriculture #climateaction #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #climatechangeisreal #climateactionnow
My mental health was at an all-time high on this day July 21, subsequently followed by a very loud wake-up call: I NEED NATURE.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Living in the City the past 8 years has been wonderful in terms of having access to amazing people, events and opportunities to learn, fulfilling work, as well as anything you might need or want pretty much 24/7. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ But I have obviously reached my capacity for tapping into all of that, as my need to get away is calling me louder more than ever. I can no longer ignore that all of those things that once fulfilled me, are now the source of my depletion.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The constant hustle has become more tiring than inspiring. And recently I have realized I spend 99% of my time fighting for what I love, and only 1% enjoying it, if I am lucky.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The photo above paints the clearest picture for me, that exploring permaculture is what my souls is calling for. I write this today, after suffering a lot of depression since being back, to encourage all of you to listen to your feelings.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Our anxiety, our depression (and our happiness and inspiration) all provide us with a compass to follow, that unfortunately our society encourages us to ignore.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ 🌿Where is your inner compass calling you?⁣⁣ Mine is called to climate action in the form getting back to my roots. Outside, in the sun, and one with the dirt. ⁣⁣ #⁣⁣climatechangeisreal #fridaysforfuture #climateaction #permaculture #regenerativeagriculture #climateactionnow #keepitintheground
“A around the globe, more than three defenders were killed each week of last year.”⁣ ☠️ ⁣ This is why we need to unite, more than ever. We can be killed when we are alone, but en mass we cannot be defeated. ⁣ ⁣ 🌿These people are heroes, and they have lost their lives because they’re the only ones brave enough to stand up against continuous evil.⁣ ⁣ Unfortunately, “this is a phenomenon seen around the world: land and environmental defenders are declared terrorists, locked up or hit with paralyzing legal attacks, for defending their rights, or simply for living on lands that are coveted by others.”⁣🔥 ⁣ 🌎When will we unite and say enough is enough already?⁣ ⁣ #climateaction #climateactionnow #keepitintheground #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #climatechangeisreal
It’s Earth Overshoot day! Sure the Arctic is on fire, Brazil’s president has opened up previously protected Amazon acreage for logging / resource exploration, and here in the US 45 is allowing drilling in Alaska's Refuge... but look how cute my #sustainablefashion is!! 💁🏼‍♀️If you want the #sustainablelife like me, just buy some more stuff because it’s green and hopefully our planet will be okay!⁣ ⁣ 🤮All jokes aside, I’m scared AF. And the fact that #earthovershootday is even earlier this year, unfortunately comes as no surprise.⁣ ⁣ It’s time to wake up people! Societies based on consumerism and money over everything ARE BURNING US ALIVE.🔥No matter what you’re selling, most likely it’s not the real answer.⁣ ⁣ #climateaction #climatestrike #keepitintheground #fridaysforfuture #climatechangeisreal #climateemergency