You know that moment when you're sitting in your apartment at 6 AM, drinking coffee that tastes like burnt disappointment, and something just… clicks? That was me about two years…
So I'm staring at my tiny apartment balcony – we're talking maybe 4×6 feet of concrete here – wondering how the hell I'm supposed to create any kind of sustainable…
I used to think climate change was just about polar bears and melting ice caps. Pretty naive, right? It took a random Tuesday night community meeting in East Austin to…
Look, I never thought my eco-anxiety would lead me down the rabbit hole of disaster management, but here we are. It all started during that crazy winter storm last year…
I've been putting off writing this post for months because, honestly, I was embarrassed about how long it took me to get on board with heat pumps. My upstairs neighbor…
I honestly never thought I'd be the person obsessing over financial disclosure documents. Like, who does that? Apparently me now, and it all started because of this super awkward moment…
You know what's really annoying? Knowing exactly what you should do about climate change but feeling like your own brain is actively working against you. I mean, I've been at…
I never thought I’d spend my Saturday mornings reading municipal stormwater management reports, but here we are. It started three summers ago when Austin got absolutely pounded by what the…
Look, I need to admit something that's pretty embarrassing for someone who supposedly cares about the environment. Until about four years ago, I was that person who'd carefully sort every…
So I had this mortifying moment about eight months ago that I'm still not completely over. I'm doing this presentation for work about sustainable living tips – you know, the…
So there I was, standing in what my Austin apartment complex generously called a "private patio" – which was basically a 6×8 foot concrete slab wedged between my sliding door…
Three years ago at some sustainability thing in Houston – okay, it was actually outside the city at this weird hippie festival that my coworker dragged me to – I…
Okay, so picture this: me, twenty-two years old, living in Austin on a nonprofit salary, standing in my tiny apartment kitchen at 2 AM googling “how to get rid of…
You know that feeling when you’re standing there feeling all virtuous about your eco-friendly choices and then reality smacks you in the face? Yeah, that happened to me about six…