Sustainability Journal
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DIY Bath Salts
By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf
I love a long soak, but I haven’t always. When I was a kid, I couldn’t understand the adult obsession with bath-taking. So luxurious, so relaxing…excuse me? So BORING. At least once I got past the point of squeaky toys...
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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...
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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?...
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Mediterranean Secret Garden
By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf
Native & Drought Friendly Gardening in Napa -
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...
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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...