“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.” ~Albert Schweitzer I pick up my phone even though it has not made a sound. No missed calls. No new messages. No invitation asking what I am doing or whether I would like to come over. I put it down, but before…
On August 22, 2018, my husband collapsed in our bedroom. Rudy was my best friend and my partner in every sense of the word. His last word was “911.” I performed CPR while my youngest daughter and my father-in-law stood nearby, and my oldest daughter shielded our four-year-old in another room. The EMTs worked on…
“Sometimes the hardest challenge isn’t receiving acceptance from God or other people; it’s receiving acceptance from ourselves.” ~Leigh Finke, Queerfully and Wonderfully Made Growing up as a pastor’s kid, I had to hide who I was. I was taught that love from parents was conditional. I was taught that mistakes were met with a strict…
“I once heard someone say that a sign of enlightenment was the ability to say (and mean it) ‘Well, this isn’t what I want, but it’s what I got, so okay.’” ~Sylvia Boorstein I once met a speed-cuber, one of those people who could solve a Rubik’s Cube in sixty seconds. Nice friendly young guy.…
Not all green web hosting is created equal. Some companies buy renewable energy certificates, others use cleaner data centers, and some extend the life of existing servers. We compare six web hosts, including GreenGeeks, SiteGround and Hostinger, to see how their environmental claims stack up against performance, speed and transparency. The post 6 Best Eco-Friendly…
The most important step is the one nobody enjoys. Six weeks out, walk the house room by room and decide what has earned a place on the truck. Anything you wouldn’t pay to ship is moving out of habit. The post The Sustainable Moving Checklist Every Household Should Follow appeared first on Green Prophet.
Aduro Clean Technologies is testing a chemical recycling solution for snack wrappers, flexible films and multilayer plastics. Its presentation to PepsiCo in Mexico City highlights the challenge of turning difficult packaging waste into valuable new materials. The post Aduro Takes Flexible Packaging to PepsiCo Innovation Hub as Investor Yazan Al Homsi Calls It Chemical Recycling’s…
Long moves are priced by weight and space, and a heavier truck burns more fuel over the same miles. So every box you leave behind cuts the bill and the emissions at the same time. The post How to Balance Convenience and Sustainability During a Big Move appeared first on Green Prophet.
In 2014, at the age of thirty-one, I was told that I might soon have serious difficulty walking. For months, my body had been sending me signals I did not understand. I experienced numbness, vertigo, falls, loss of coordination, difficulty reading, disorientation, bladder problems, and other neurological symptoms. I would walk down the street and…
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” ~Toni Morrison, Beloved My father was on the other side of my bedroom door, banging hard on it with the flat of his hand, screaming at me to get back to the table and finish my plate. I told him there was no way I was going…
