Sustainability Journal

  • Fall Events in Napa

    Fall Events in Napa

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    Napa is such a delightful place to live for approximately 7,498 reasons, and one of them is that there are always fun, seasonal activities put on by the community for the community. And there are so many local events to...

  • A Pile of Leaves on Fire

    A Pile of Leaves on Fire

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    Fall is highly symbolic, I think. And also highly charged in a human behavior sort of way. For me, fall is a mixed bag of colorful, rotting leaves. And maybe the pile of leaves is on fire. It seems highly...

  • Honoring the History: Q+A with Napa's Danielle Eastman

    Honoring the History: Q+A with Napa's Danielle Eastman

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    “You can have a really beautiful relationship with a piece if you insert yourself into it...and just embody it.”
  • Home waste audit. Part 2.

    Home waste audit. Part 2.

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    What now? + a couple recipes.
  • Transparency in Pricing

    Transparency in Pricing

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    It’s a commonly held belief that when you want to start a new thing, you’re to look at how other people have done that thing and use it as a model. The logic is there, but the problem is that...

  • Sustainable Holidays With Juniper Station

    Sustainable Holidays With Juniper Station

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    With the holidays, ambience is EVERYTHING. My childhood memories of theyuletide are entirely sensory. They’re basically sugar-coated fever dreamswith Bing Crosby and Judy Garland fading in and out of the background (or NeilDiamond and Amy Grant depending on the company)....