Sustainability Journal

  • 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...

  • Where Do The Leaf Boats Go: Q+A with Napa’s A. Cort Sinnes

    Where Do The Leaf Boats Go: Q+A with Napa’s A. Cort Sinnes

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    “Mama, we’re like skyscrapers to the ants,” my five-year-old told me last week on a walk. Admittedly, the way my childrens’ thoughts hit me depends on the day. But on this day it was square between the eyes. “Yes, baby....

  • 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...

  • Wellness Pie

    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...

  • Proof of Life

    Proof of Life

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    I saw myself smile in the mirror the other day. I noticed how, at 36, there are lots of little lines around my eyes that crop up alongside this contented expression. And in that moment, for whatever reason, I simply...

  • Nature Calms

    Nature Calms

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    How intentionality around aromas can change our nervous systems and raise the quality of our lives.