I ‘Believe in Better’ ♻️🌾 My first step in leading an environmentally conscious lifestyle began w/ reusable bags & water bottles, now this 📲🌎 @pelacase is plastic-free case made of plant material 🌿 that is thick & durable without adding bulk. It looks high-end, has a great feel to it. It is COMPOSTABLE – zero waste 🚫🗑️! And… It costs relative to a mid-range plastic case at only $39.00 + free shipping (I happened to win a 20% off coupon on their website so this only cost me $31.00!✨)
As new cell phone designs come out each year they leave behind not just older cell phone models, but countless of plastic phone accessories & packaging in their wake. While there will always be companies who produce plastic for its low cost and consumers who buy said plastic for the range of choice, low price and disposability, companies like Pela exist which choose to design/create products that are sustainable while meeting the needs of the consumer. It may not be practical for one to buy or practice everything sustainably (it can be expensive, time-consuming, requires more space than one has, etc.) but I believe it is a worthwhile investment to do so if one has the means 🌱 With consumer support & financial backing for products like the Pela case, it may influence other manufacturers to follow our money and step away from plastic.
Steven Universe Season 1: If every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dogs!!
Steven Universe Season 4 Finale: I am going to sacrifice myself to militant alien dictators because of my extreme self loathing and the guilt I feel for putting my friends and family in danger just by the merit of being around me.
"People can’t anticipate how much they’ll miss the natural world until they are deprived of it.
I have read about submarine crewmen who haunt the sonar room, listening to whale songs and colonies of snapping shrimp. Submarine captains dispense “periscope liberty” - a chance to gaze at clouds and birds and coastlines - and remind themselves that the natural world still exists. I once met a man who told me that after landing in Christchurch, New Zealand, after a winter at the South Pole research station, he and his companions spent a couple of days just wandering around staring in awe at flowers and trees. At one point, one of them spotted a woman pushing a stroller. “A baby!” he shouted, and they all rushed across the street to see. The woman turned the stroller and ran.
Nothing tops space as a barren, unnatural environment. Astronauts who had no prior interest in gardening spend hours tending experimental greenhouses. “They are our love,” said cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov of the tiny flax plants - with which they shared the confines of Salyut 1, the first Soviet space station. At least in orbit, you can look out the window and see the natural world below.
On a Mars mission, once astronauts lose sight of Earth, they’ll be nothing to see outside the window. “You’ll be bathed in permanent sunlight, so you won’t eve see any stars,” astronaut Andy Thomas explained to me.
“All you’ll see is black.”
" Mary Roach. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void.
This is a really interesting read - it’s got a lot of information that I would never have thought to think of (such as - will astronauts eyeballs become different shapes without gravity - weird), but it also has really good chapters about the psychology of space.
(via psycholar)
