Sustainability Journal

  • 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. Noise. So. Much. Anxiety. Here are a few of the...

  • 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 for budget adjustments and editing - these eco-chic bundles are...

  • 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 micro and moving through our veins, causing hormonal changes in...

  • 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 are, how in this plastic world, do they do it?...

  • 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 bit of the story stuck out to me. This was...

  • 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. This wabi-sabi sort of organization of our personal self-care apothecaries...