As the winter holidays and New Year roll in, people often have more time and motivation to read. It’s a wonderful way to spend downtime: relaxing, yet educational and purposeful at the same time. In case you find yourself with reader’s block, we’ve put together a list of six reads from different genres for you to kickstart your 2022 reading list. Pick and choose based on genres, storylines or authors, and enjoy! Activism Being the Change: Live...

November kicks off the holiday season, including the infamous Black Friday, a day of frenzied shopping. As sales start earlier and earlier to entice shoppers, there’s been a recent surge of anti-consumerism as many have been choosing to skip Black Friday in an effort to reduce consumption and waste during the holidays. There’s even an alternate name for the date: Buy Nothing Day!  Greener Black Friday Campaigns REI’s #OptOutside...

It’s now October, and autumn is officially here, a season marked by warm sweaters, beautiful leaves, cozy beverages, and all things pumpkin — including pumpkin recipes for every meal! We at Turning Green are interested in ways to make our enthusiasm for this fall fruit more sustainable. With Halloween bringing many jack o’lanterns to people’s front porches, more than one billion pounds of pumpkin are tossed into the landfill each year. To...

Summer is the perfect time to catch up on all those books you’ve been meaning to read, but just haven’t had the time to pick up during the school year. So much incredible writing and learning awaits you, and it’s time to dive in! To start off your summer reading journey, we’ve curated a list of favorite environmental and social justice-themed reads from our intern team. Happy reading!     The Overstory by Richard Powers What it’s...

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I was constantly surrounded by the wonders of nature, but it wasn’t until reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass, that I was able to fully appreciate the complexity of the relationships between different plants and animals within ecosystems themselves. Humanity does so much damage to these relationships and incredible systems, when what we really need to be doing is learning from their...