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Liz Knowles
Looking at my travels from a sustainability perspective, I am struck by how many times I should have just asked. It is not in my nature—and maybe not in yours?—to ask for things that aren’t already on offer. Maybe, like me, you were brought up with a sense that asking for too much (or too often) is impolite. Frankly, sometimes it is just uncomfortable to ask for what you need.
Liz Knowles
In our first efforts to document some of our experiences on the road, collect our current knowledge about more sustainable practices, and express our broader interests as ‘artists who tour and want to be more sustainable’, I took on the topic of ‘How to Navigate an Airport more Sustainably’. I thought, ‘Wow, this is going to be easy!’ I mean, I do this A LOT and I know lots of airports and what they have to offer—as well as what they can’t provide—on a number of fronts like ‘good coffee’, ‘healthy food’, etc. And I am already a conscientious person and surely I have a lot to offer on this topic. Yeah, about that…..
Brad Hurley
Recycling is the first and often the only step that most people take to reduce waste. But it just scratches the surface of what you can do. The U.S. EPA’s Waste Management Hierarchy ranks actions according to their environmental benefits. Source reduction and reuse are at the top of the list, because they focus on avoiding waste in the first place. Recycling comes second.
Laura Risk
Carbon offsets remind me of nothing so much as indulgences, those infamous get-out-of-purgatory cards that helped set off the Protestant Reformation. Buying offsets doesn’t change the fact that I’ve emitted more than my fair share. But in today’s world, offsets do make sense:
