Greenie Starter Packs - January Edition

Media

Podcasts

• TILClimate by MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

• How to Save a Planet by Gimlet

• Home Cooking by Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway

Books

• The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

• Plastic-Free by Beth Terry

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Blogs/websites

• Good on You - Assess the environmental impact of companies before you buy.

• Trash is for Tossers - Lauren Singer’s zero-waste blog!

• Yale Environment 360 - Yale School of the Environment’s online magazine that includes opinion, analysis, and reporting on global environmental issues.

Other media

• The True Cost - learn who pays the price for our fast fashion.

• The Story of Plastic - learn more about the lifecycle of plastic, especially its damages.

• Environmental Health New’s Above the Fold email newsletter - receive a weekly digest of relevant environmental news collated from various sites/newspapers.

• Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock - film about the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s resistance of governmental efforts to construct an oil pipeline through their land.

Gather - film about the Native American movement to “reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.”

Hobbies

Cooking & baking

• Oats

  • Audrey: with strawberries and a dot of honey - quick and easy to throw together in 5 minutes, easy to eat during my 1st period class, easy cleanup too!

  • Margaret: mixed with okara, cocoa powder, a bit of brown sugar, topped with granola and PB - yummy and nutrient-packed

  • May: topped with bananas, cinnamon, chia seeds, any type of berries (nutmeg is also good)

• Bread

  • Vegan Water Challah, Domestic Gothess

  • 100% Whole Wheat Bread, Stella Parks on Serious Eats

• Dinners

  • Vegetarian Skillet Chili by Melissa Clark, NYT Cooking

  • TVP (textured vegetable protein) Dumplings, Cilantro and Citronella

• Sweets

  • Chocolate Chip Cookies, The Lazy Vegan Baker

  • Nekisia’s Granola, Food 52

Hiking

• Windy Hill Space Preserve

• Arastradero Preserve

• Fremont Older Preserve

• Black Mountain