Sustainability Journal

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...
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The Beauty Scaries
The Beauty Scaries

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

There are a multitude of voices swirling through the ethosphere, telling us what we should fear. Actually they’re not just swirling - they’re swirling and screaming like banshees. So. Much....
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Building Sustainability & Creativity with Eco-Bricks
Building Sustainability & Creativity with Eco-Bricks

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

If there’s one specific type of technology we’re desperately in need of, it’s plastic transition tech. Plastic is no longer just a product material - it’s an accidental landform; it’s...
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A Look Into Urban Foraging
A Look Into Urban Foraging

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

I recently read Sarah Moss’s deeply unsettling novella, Ghost Wall. (Highly recommend if you’re up for a dark, poignant read.) Among the brilliant multitude of disturbing details, another more benign...
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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...
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Mending a Throwaway Culture
Mending a Throwaway Culture

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

When we break or damage an item, in our fastfood-throwaway culture, we quickly offer it up to the precarious, soon-to-topple, God of Landfills and buy a new one. Even if...
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Activated Charcoal, So Hot
Activated Charcoal, So Hot

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

Wellness ingredients wax and wane with the times, but it is the hope that we’re continually moving toward a more natural way of life. I’m grateful that this seems to...
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Timeless Muses & Sustainable Gift Baskets
Timeless Muses & Sustainable Gift Baskets

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

It’s time to roll out a waggish Juniper Station sustainable gift guide. Gift basket edit. I created six baskets ranging in price from $175 to $275. Of course, there’s room...
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What is Zero Waste, Exactly?
What is Zero Waste, Exactly?

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

What exactly is Zero Waste? Is it a literal term? Is it a goal? Are there people who are able to live without creating any waste at all? If there...
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Our Vessels and What We Fill Them With
Our Vessels and What We Fill Them With

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

Jar-lined walls on worn wooden shelves, each shape as different as a body - tall, stretching its neck toward the ceiling, short and squat, poised to receive and be filled....
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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...
Read more
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...
Read more
Mending a Throwaway Culture
Mending a Throwaway Culture

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

When we break or damage an item, in our fastfood-throwaway culture, we quickly offer it up to the precarious, soon-to-topple, God of Landfills and buy a new one. Even if...
Read more
Activated Charcoal, So Hot
Activated Charcoal, So Hot

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

Wellness ingredients wax and wane with the times, but it is the hope that we’re continually moving toward a more natural way of life. I’m grateful that this seems to...
Read more
The Beauty Scaries
The Beauty Scaries

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

There are a multitude of voices swirling through the ethosphere, telling us what we should fear. Actually they’re not just swirling - they’re swirling and screaming like banshees. So. Much....
Read more
Timeless Muses & Sustainable Gift Baskets
Timeless Muses & Sustainable Gift Baskets

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

It’s time to roll out a waggish Juniper Station sustainable gift guide. Gift basket edit. I created six baskets ranging in price from $175 to $275. Of course, there’s room...
Read more
Building Sustainability & Creativity with Eco-Bricks
Building Sustainability & Creativity with Eco-Bricks

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

If there’s one specific type of technology we’re desperately in need of, it’s plastic transition tech. Plastic is no longer just a product material - it’s an accidental landform; it’s...
Read more
What is Zero Waste, Exactly?
What is Zero Waste, Exactly?

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

What exactly is Zero Waste? Is it a literal term? Is it a goal? Are there people who are able to live without creating any waste at all? If there...
Read more
A Look Into Urban Foraging
A Look Into Urban Foraging

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

I recently read Sarah Moss’s deeply unsettling novella, Ghost Wall. (Highly recommend if you’re up for a dark, poignant read.) Among the brilliant multitude of disturbing details, another more benign...
Read more
Our Vessels and What We Fill Them With
Our Vessels and What We Fill Them With

By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

Jar-lined walls on worn wooden shelves, each shape as different as a body - tall, stretching its neck toward the ceiling, short and squat, poised to receive and be filled....
Read more