I’m so excited to share the first issue of my new monthly newsletter, the Beantown Digest. This will be an email newsletter, separate from the email subscription to this blog, as it’s for Greater Boston-specific content. You can subscribe to the Beantown Digest here. For this first edition only, I am putting it on my… Continue reading Beantown Digest: Issue #1
Author: Emily
A 10 Day Vipassana Meditation Course: The Adventure
At the end of June I temporarily departed workaday life to go on an adventure. Back in the winter of 2022, I waitlisted for a 10-day Vipassana meditation course at the nearest center to me, across the state in the western Massachusetts town of Shelburne. I think I heard about Vipassana from two sustainability people:… Continue reading A 10 Day Vipassana Meditation Course: The Adventure
Soup
Hello friends! I’ve been encouraged to provide my Soup powerpoint (circa 2022) in a more easily accessible location, so I’ve converted it to blog post form. Enjoy! bean soup or becoming a better person through soup (Updated Spring 2023) I’m going to break it down, easy as soup. Table of contents 1. What I do… Continue reading Soup
A Conversation with Chuck
Creative Health Food Store is a small store on 108th and Broadway, sandwiched between the row of small stores that occupy the first story of The Manhasset, a century-plus old apartment building that occupies the block. I started shopping there in my senior year at Columbia because I was getting into beans and out of… Continue reading A Conversation with Chuck
Project Pack Out
Over the past year or so, I’ve gotten much more aware of the trash problem. But even as I compost, buy my food in bulk, and wouldn’t be caught dead with a disposable coffee cup, it’s still all too easy to order a packaged delivered, grab an office snack, and let the associated garbage vanish… Continue reading Project Pack Out
I Got A Job, So Time to Offer Career Advice
Alternative title: things I think I learned about job and career searching in college. First, Why I Am Qualified to Give Advice Well, I’m not. But I did have An Experience that I am pretty proud of having gone through. I had a non-ideal internship stack up (not a single internship in the industry my… Continue reading I Got A Job, So Time to Offer Career Advice
Carlin’s Straw Environmentalist
When I was in my teens, like maybe around age 14, it really annoyed me to hear about “saving the planet.” I thought it was faulty messaging. “People don’t care about trees and icebergs!” I’d think. “People care about people! So let’s emphasize that we’re trying to save OURSELVES, not the planet! People aren’t motivated… Continue reading Carlin’s Straw Environmentalist
I Didn’t Fly in 2022
The last time I flew was September 4th, 2021, to get to college for the start of my senior year. That’s 479 days ago. That fall, I made the decision to stop flying for at least one year. Why? Because flying airplanes emits emits a massive amount of greenhouse gases. I’d been vaguely aware for… Continue reading I Didn’t Fly in 2022
What’s the Plan for Plastic? (Pt. I)
I’m excited to share the first part of a deep dive I’ve been working on for the past two months (hence the lack of #content lately). Enjoy! The ubiquity of plastic is hard to overstate. You might wake up, squeeze some toothpaste out of a polyethylene tube onto the nylon bristles of a polypropylene toothbrush,… Continue reading What’s the Plan for Plastic? (Pt. I)
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The State of U.S. Energy in 5 Graphs
I wanted to make a version of my previous post but focusing exclusively on the US. So, here’s the state of energy in the United States in 5 figures. All charts are made by me unless otherwise cited, and data sources are cited. Primary energy consumption by source and sector Primary energy is the energy… Continue reading The State of U.S. Energy in 5 Graphs
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