Best Thrift Stores in NYC, According To New Yorkers
We love New York and we especially love to shop there. But we prefer our shopping to be kind to the planet now and that’s why we put this list together. Thrifting is the best way to shop, it means…
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Best Thrift Stores in San Diego, According To Locals
What a beautiful city San Diego is and what a great place to take up thrifting. Get away from the big-name brands like Buffalo Exchange and enjoy all the smaller and more exciting stores instead. They’re what makes this city…
Best Thrift Stores in Chicago, According To Locals
The Windy City is a great place to shop! But why not keep away from fast fashion and enjoy the sustainable pleasures of thrifting instead? Chicago is a great place for it. Wherever you look in the city from Irving…
Best Thrift Stores in San Francisco, According To Locals
We believe that the best way forward for fashion is for us to buy secondhand and vintage pieces as much as possible. Thrift stores are part of the solution. Buying used articles of clothing cuts down on production pollution and…
Fast Fashion Brands To Avoid
We now buy 4 times as many clothing items as we used to in the 1990s! That leads to more than 80 pounds of waste being created by each person in America. We buy more clothes, we wear them a…
What Is Cork? And Is It Sustainable?
If there’s anything that we love more on a Friday night after work than a cold glass of chardonnay, we’re not sure what it is. And it is wine that always brings corks to our minds. So, last time we…
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert won a Pullitzer Prize for her book “The Sixth Extinction.” Now she returns for a deep look at the future humanity is creating for itself. She tours the planet to talk to biologists about what they’re observing and…
What is Holism?
A holistic approach is the idea that a system should be seen as a whole entity rather than as a collection of individual parts. This idea has led to the concept of holism in human behavior, physical anthropology, and social…
Is Mother Nature Real?
It’s not often that we tackle a question of such enormity. And the answer is quite complicated but we’ll give it a go. However, if you’re hoping for Mother Nature’s real name by the end of this article… you’re probably…
The Life And Times Of Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis was one of biology’s most colorful and accomplished individuals. She was one of the earliest proponents of the Gaia hypothesis and a trailblazer in Molecular biology. She attend the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools when she turned 15…
The Life & Times of James Lovelock
We’ve got a whole section of our website content dedicated to James Lovelock and his Gaia Theory. So as you might expect we have huge respect for this British scientist. But who is James Lovelock, what exactly is he responsible…
The Life & Times of an Ecocentrist
The age of the ecocentrist is here. If we want economic growth and population growth it has to be sustainable. And that means considering the intrinsic value of everything, not just human interests. But what are ecocentric values and what…