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Health / Pollution/Waste / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published May 14, 2017 · Last modified May 15, 2017
“Raise your hand if you’re SURE!” a deodorant ad once proclaimed, playing to widespread insecurities about appearance and body odor. The promise of radiant confidence and magnetic appeal is what sells personal care products,...
Education/Family / Health / Slower Living / Technology
by Marina Schauffler · Published April 16, 2017
“When our attention is perpetually narrowed onto a small screen, our world shrinks to meet it.” — Nancy Colier, The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World How...
Ecological Values / Education/Family / Food / Pollution/Waste / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published April 2, 2017
“It’s not easy being green,” Kermit the Frog bemoaned back in 1970. What was, for a Muppet, a whimsical play on words has become code for the challenge of trying to live with a...
Health / Housing / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published March 26, 2017 · Last modified April 2, 2017
I have a bowl of paper whites, Of paper-white narcissus; Their fragrance my whole soul delights, They smell delissus. E.B. White, “Window Ledge in the Atom Age,” 1946 Winter may finally be over,...
Climate Change/Energy / Ecological Values / Pollution/Waste / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published March 5, 2017 · Last modified April 2, 2017
The politics of climate change are starting to resemble the surface of a melting glacier split by crevices. We appear to be at a shear zone, a major discontinuity between the perspective of most...
Climate Change/Energy / Ecological Values / Pollution/Waste / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published February 26, 2017
After a recent conversation with a self-described “climate agnostic,” I found myself trying to articulate why that was not a tenable stance. I wrote that person a letter and am sharing it beyond the...
Climate Change/Energy / Economics / Health / Pollution/Waste / Sustainable Practices / Technology
by Marina Schauffler · Published February 6, 2017
“There is no such thing as a free lunch,” biologist Barry Commoner wrote in 1971, proposing that as one of four “laws of ecology.” We’ve had decades to absorb that lesson but it still...
Economics / Education/Family / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published January 22, 2017
“What education giveth in terms of freedom and opportunity, student debt often taketh away.” – Zac Bissonnette, Debt-Free U Too many high school students stumble through applications for college loans with far more optimism...
