Easy things to do On these hot and humid days where they're trying to get us to skip the air conditioning to save energy, nobody has the energy to undertake Big Things. So here are some incredibly lazy ways to live more sustainably this summer with minimal effort or physical discomfort. Don't multitask. I think we've all had those evenings where we had a streaming movie playing on the TV in the background while sending emails on our computer and texting friends by phone. We don't need to be...

Shifting responsibility to the individual Update: During the summer (and maybe longer?) this newsletter will be going to an every-other-week schedule. Last week, much of the United States experienced a massive heatwave, complete with intensely high humidity. Record high temperatures were broken in places as far apart as Louisiana (the U.S. deep South), and Wisconsin (northern Midwest near the Great Lakes). On top of that, the strained power grid led to extended blackouts in Philadelphia from...

Everything is topsy-turvy I feel like there's a bit of repetition in the newsletter of late. That's because I keep getting emails and DMs asking me about what I'm doing and how to navigate everything given... well, everything. Now, did I write an entire newsletter just to use the phrase "topsy-turvy?" Maybe. It feels a lot more playful than the onslaught of emails that have flooding my inbox talking about climate disasters, underfunding of government agencies, economic uncertainty, health...