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CEO Diaries

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Democracy Now NYC

I am lucky. You know why? Because I got to tour the DEMOCRACY NOW! LEED PLATINUM STUDIO!!! Okay, geeking out, Democracy Now!’s host, Amy Goodman, is a major environmental, social, political, and journalistic superhero whom I totally admire. Annnnnddd little ole’ me got to tour her home away from home and learn all about its “birth”, so to speak, from an industrial print bindery into a…
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Interview with Daniel Silverstein

So I was the luckiest lady ever for the weekend of my 23rd birthday. Why, you ask? Good question. The answer: Daniel Silverstein. Daniel is a designer in NYC who not only makes amazing clothes, he makes them using Zero Waste practices. What!? Someone in the fashion world is concerned about waste!? It’s true people, it’s true. He graduated from FIT where…
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My Trash Jar: Two Months of Trash

Here it is. All of the trash that I have produced over the past two months. The contents: (bold is new this month) One package of Organic active dry yeast from when I made some ginger beer (I now buy yeast in bulk) Three safety seals from vitamins that I purchased (my doctor told me that I was vitamin D…
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My Trash Jar: One Month of Trash

This is all of the trash I have produced in the past month. A bunch of produce stickers (the worst), one price sticker from Whole Foods when I bought unpackaged bread, one plastic baggie (it was from before I started my Zero Waste journey, but it is unusable now so it would go to landfill, one yellow plastic “PULL” thing,…
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My Trash Jar: Two Weeks of Trash

This post has been a long time coming. Over the past two weeks I have kept all of my trash in a mason jar to start documenting my output. I am going to keep doing this until the end of the year and see how little I can produce! So this is it. I have a small pile of about…
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Interview with The Daily Slope

My friend Natalia published an article yesterday for The Daily Slope called “Recycling Tips from “Trash is for Tossers” (No longer available) which talks about NYC recycling, composting, and ways to stay green as the leaves start changing. “While we are all excited for flannel plaid jackets, pumpkin-spice everything, and that familiar smell of turning leaves in Prospect Park, the cool…
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