My journey with minimalism started the day I began packing for college. As I was extracting myself from my overstuffed walk in closest, flip phone lost amidst the clothes I never wore and macaroni art that six year old me was sure was ready for the Louvre, I came to a shocking realization – I… Read More The Goldfish Dilemma: The Challenge of Minimalism
There is a mentality in the developed world that one can ‘throw away’ things and they cease to exist. The magical garbage bin that gets reliably picked up every week often doesn’t cost you anything to fill up, either in actual money or mental space. Many of us only think about the garbage can or… Read More A Throw Away Society
Today is World Oceans Day, a day when we should all be thinking about what we can do to protect the oceans, so here are twelve ways you can refuse single use plastic and reduce your plastic consumption overall, because let’s be honest, we really need to (Americans create the most plastic waste per year,… Read More Breaking up with Plastic: Refuse and Reduce
We are drowning in a sea of plastic. Since its discovery in the late 19th century and explosion post World War II, the story on plastic has gone from wonder material of the future to problematic litter contributor to a serious health concern for humans and the planet. The problem with plastic relates mainly to… Read More Let’s Talk about Plastic: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
If you’ve read last week’s post on sun safety and the effect of traditional (i.e. chemical) sunscreens on our oceans and your health, then you might be wondering what reef safe sunscreen you should use. Lucky for you, I have spent the last three years trying way too many reef safe sunscreen options to find… Read More Reef Safe Sunscreen Reviews
There are two things that most everyone knows about Australia: 1) that this is a country of beaches and ocean lovers given the sheer amount of coastline and 2) that the sun is so blazing lava hot it will fry pasty European skin to Melanoma status in no time (and, if you are lucky enough… Read More A Sunburnt Country: Sun Safety in Australia
I sit on a deserted beach in Langkawi, Malaysia – my first new country since 2017 – and, despite the lack of crowds, I am still pulling plastic bags out of the ocean. I am disappointed, yet emboldened. See, when I started this blog way back when in 2013 it was just a record of… Read More Environmentalism and Eco-tourism