Sustainability Journal
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The Greatest Hardship
By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf
A while back, I was watching a clip of an interview from the 70’s with Aretha Franklin. The interviewer - someone iconic, though I can’t remember who now - asked what her greatest hardship in life was. She stopped for...
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Clean Screens
By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf
The United States is not a leader in clean ingredients. Our standards for cleanliness in food and cosmetics are frighteningly low compared to those of other developed countries. However, we actually have better standards when it comes to sunscreen. I...
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Zero Waste Home: a book review
By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf
Bea Johnson is one of modern day’s OG zero wasters. I was gifted her book Zero Waste Home years ago by one of my closest friends and have come to rely on it for quick and easy reference. The book...
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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...
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Wellness Pie
By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf
What is wellness? Everything and its mom have their own definitions. Social media will tell you through framed, little boxes with words inside, or pictures of bodies in mirrors, that wellness is a cacophony of contradictory things. I looked up...