A curious trek into the industrialization of sustainability.
Recently I have learned a very important lesson, trust google maps. No matter how illogical the path may seem on your tiny hand held mobile devices screen, trust it. DO NOT suddenly decide you are smarter than the entirety of the internet and zoom in on all the supposed side streets the map shows and…
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*Photos taken by Christopher W. Kirkham and edited by Alice S. Kirkham
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Until recently I had never seen a proper desert. Tall sandstone mountains that stretched to meet the sky, their peaks eroded away into alien looking formations by the wind and rain. This red sandy landscape seemed to stretch on forever into a peaceful, yet treacherous terrain. I had thought that taking a four-hour bus trip…
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I love leather jackets. For years my prefered signature fashion item was a well worn vintage leather jacket. One that was picked up on Telegraph Avenue sometime before the first day of sixth grade and worn well into my freshman year of highschool. To choose that jacket I stood in front of a rack displaying…
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Permaculture, classically centered around the idea of constructing an agricultural system that integrates human activity with the local natural surroundings so as to create a highly efficient, self-sustaining ecosystem. But why restrict permaculture theory and methods to just agriculture? Why can’t we also use our natural surroundings as they are and use them to construct…
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Trash. One, of the many, repugnant byproducts produced by human beings. What’s more revolting you ask? The shear amount of trash that we collect and dispose of daily. We have reached a point where our own planet has begun to succumb to the incredible amount of useless waste that we have produced then thrown away…
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Yesterday I had the great pleasure of meeting a young man named Yasin who had watched me struggle with my bags as I made my way through a large outdoor fruit market in search of the Airbnb I had booked for that night. Apparently, he had grown quite accustomed to the wandering tourist searching for the…
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The Sustainable Nomad 