Minimally Sustained is a website featuring a blog and the online book Sustained Minimalist, exploring the benefits of intentional living for ourselves and the planet, with practical ideas for getting more out of less.
Tumble-drying polyester and nylon frays the fabric and sheds microplastic fibers straight into the air through the dryer vent. Those fibers do not stay by the vent. They drift into the community, settle as dust, and end up in the water and the air we all breathe.
This post argues that rising atmospheric CO₂ isn't only a climate problem — it's a direct threat to human biology.
Governments are not moving quickly enough on climate change with small incremental changes over time. However, people and organizations who champion these efforts can pressure governments to drive faster change.
Saying goodbye to a good man.
As an individual who approaches investing with a more bearish outlook I am inherently more conservative with allocations. This post outlines some steps I took to let go a bit and earn better returns.
A problem with climate is that we cannot actually feel how it was before. Change is therefore only experienced only in the moment.
CO2 emissions rose by the largest amount in human recorded history last year. Despite rhetoric to appease the concerns of environmental advocates, little has actually been done on a global aggregate level to slow greenhouse gas emission growth. Technology, collaboration, and innovation remain our best path to solving it.
There are an abundance of apps these days that provide identical services to Craigslist but seek to monetize what is already free.
Finding Depth in the Everyday: A Minimalist Path to Sustainable Fulfillment.
Are some companies not establishing sufficient security safeguards for personal data?
With its Arrowhead permit long expired, Nestle has been exploiting San Bernadino Forest water supply for nearly three decades, circumventing environmental review and scientific analysis on effects of bottling millions of gallons of water annually.
Until economies of scale catch up with in vitro meat growth, eating less actual meat is essential to combat climate change and support sustainability.
Let’s face it. We produce a lot of CO2 and CH4. Whether it’s from power generation, industry, transportation, agriculture, etc. We continue to overload a climate that had developed a stable level of greenhouse gases over the last several hundred-thousand years with gigatons upon gigatons of additional greenhouse gases.
Our primary dependance on power generated from fossil fuels and our mass consumption of livestock mammals, has caused the greenhouse gas levels to jump up like a hockey stick and throw the climate out of balance. These human activities threw out the natural balance our planet had built over the last million years. The effects of higher atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane are…
Earlier in January 2015, I tried to push back on a popular pastime, burning wood at the beach. The post contains a letter I submitted to the city council addressing my concern backed by science and health concerns.
The bipartisan pendulum swings again. We change perceptions by allowing people to embrace a multiparty system. We give everyone a real voice that matches multiple parties and is more unique then a left and a right, a Democratic or Republican. People are worth more than that.
It seems that today there is a disconnect between the action that Congress takes and goals and endeavors of modern society.
The latest climate news — weighing optimism against frustration, and why sustainable growth has to replace destructive consumption.
On the Passage of Time and the Importance of Reflection.