A rare blog, a blog but it also challenges you to be a better person (reasonably)
This is why we started
Honestly, we are just a bunch of college students trying to make the world a better place. We have been told most of our lives that if we don't do...
This is why we started
Honestly, we are just a bunch of college students trying to make the world a better place. We have been told most of our lives that if we don't do...
The Lie About The 3 Rs
Reduce Reuse Recycle was a campaign created by oil companies to put the environmental blame on the consumer knowing dang well who was hurting the earth. We have been bamboozled gosh darnit!
Let's Switch It Up With Some New Rs
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Redo
It's okay that we messed up. I make mistakes all the time. I accidentally bought over 800 articles of Hane's ecosmart clothing for earthrYte and then found out that clothing made from recycled plastic water bottles are actually not the best for the environment. They actually break down into thin microplastics in the washing machine and get into our oceans' wildlife. I felt so incredibly dumb, but I took a step back and tried again. And we can do that too. It's all about recognizing our missteps, learning from them, and trying again.
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Reimagine
Take the plastic industry for example, what we did didn't work, and that is a blessing and a curse. The curse is, holy crap, we've got a lot of plastic that we need to take care of. But the blessing is that it opens up numerous opportunities for people to come up with new and innovative solutions, to find a way out of the problem. Now, we have the chance to work together to come up with cool new solutions like bioplastics made from plants, creating a plastic bank, or maybe even finding a certain bacteria that can digest plastic and remove it from the surface of the Earth. It's about unleashing our collective creativity to craft a greener, cleaner future.
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Reignite
Golly, I get excited when we get rid of the old to bring in the new. A chance to embrace the future, leaving some of the "not-so-great" decisions of our past behind. The creation of plastic and the founding of oil were brilliant finds that advanced us in many ways, but now, we get the chance to look back at it, be grateful for it, but understand that we can't continue on this path. It's time for us to move forward with new ideas on how to do that the smartest, most responsible way, and it can be exciting. A quote by an inspiring figure, Jane Goodall, has been bouncing in my head lately: "The greatest danger to our future is our apathy.” Apathy (I had to look this up!) means a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern. And when you think about it, it makes perfect sense that the only thing that can destroy us is our not caring enough to do something about it. So basically... let's give a shit.