by Stefanie Marlis | May 28, 2020 | blog
Street names in my small northern California town reflect both its human history—Central, Fire, Park, Railroad—and its natural history—Salix, Redwood, Laurel, Elm, a few tall specimens of which, having survived an arboreal pandemic of the last century, are in leaf....
by Stefanie Marlis | May 28, 2020 | blog
Out walking, halfway through my third week of sheltering in place, I spot another roadkill squirrel up ahead on the blind curve in my woodsy Northern California town. That’s three in a week. Are the squirrels sick, so sick they can’t sense oncoming cars? People with...
by Stefanie Marlis | Mar 25, 2016 | blog
Is a goal of zero waste reasonable? Or, should we recycle only if it makes economic sense, and if it does, let the market regulate it, not the government. The problem with aiming for zero waste is that we assume almost everything has value. If you turn something into...
by Stefanie Marlis | Feb 24, 2016 | blog
Soon after we tumbled into the millennium, the small advertising agency I work with in Arizona was hired to develop a series of ads and print pieces promoting recycling in the border town of Nogales, population 50,000. Nogales Recycles felt like holy work. Few cities...
by Stefanie Marlis | Jan 25, 2016 | blog
Last week, I rediscovered WIRED magazine while listening to a discussion on NPR about the microbiome. One of the guests was the author of a recent WIRED article, ”Your Body Is Surrounded By Clouds Of Skin And Fart Bacteria.” You might have heard it, too. Someone on...
by Stefanie Marlis | Jan 4, 2016 | blog
Last winter, inspired by Michael Pollan’s Cooked, I started slow-cooking stews and enjoying them over organic brown rice or quinoa, a diversion from my Paleo-ish diet. About the same time, however, I was experiencing an achy-empty feeling in my gut that would come and...
