Sustainability Journal
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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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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...
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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...
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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 emphatically align with the time we’re living in now. One...
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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...