Sustainability Journal

  • 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.
  • 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 just a piece of it breaks, one that can be...

  • Thoughts on slowing down. Part 2.

    Thoughts on slowing down. Part 2.

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    Find water.
  • 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 emphatically align with the time we’re living in now. One...