Sustainability Journal

  • Pure Creative Flow: Q+A with Elyse Rainbolt

    Pure Creative Flow: Q+A with Elyse Rainbolt

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    Feminine groove. Exquisite tastes. Rainbow explosions. Pure creative flow. All of these things pour from the screen while FaceTiming with Elyse Rainbolt - even when the connection from her remote Pennsylvania flower farm is too dodgy for you to see...

  • Home waste audit. Part 2.

    Home waste audit. Part 2.

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    What now? + a couple recipes.
  • The Greatest Hardship

    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...

  • Clean Screens

    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...

  • Zero Waste Home: a book review

    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...

  • 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...