Jessian Choy
Investigative Journalist at Freelance
That person who mailed menstrual🩲to prof who found toxic PFAS in it. Journalist @realMsGreen. Be🤓/equitable/green/vegan➡️dream/energy work/hypnosis/sound w/me
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2 months ago |
funanddraconian.substack.com | Jessian Choy
Maybe we’d save ourselves and our planet more if we called it “Father Earth.” Why? Sadly, there are things some people might do to mothers, women, or girls, but not as much to fathers, men, or boys. But even if we said “Father Earth,” there’s a catch. Also, women have lower levels of educational attainment and less participation in the paid workforce where there is gendered language. And, speakers of gendered languages use stereotypes to describe feminine versus masculine items.
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2 months ago |
funanddraconian.substack.com | Jessian Choy
If you can, be picky about which thrift store, junk remover, and recycler you choose. Thrift stores sometimes put usable donations in dumpsters. I’ve even seen photos in Buy Nothing Groups of expensive, usable things in a certified green business thrift store’s dumpster. Also, junk removers sometimes illegally dump stuff in nature. Or they both “recycle” with companies that aren’t certified to responsibly recycle toxic things like electronics.
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2 months ago |
sierraclub.org | Jessian Choy
One of the best ways you can do right by yourself and the planet is to keep your stuff going as long as possible. The longer you can keep it out of a dumpster, the better. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States produced nearly 300 million tons of landfill waste in 2018, amounting to approximately five pounds of trash per person every day. When it comes to recycling something like plastic, it’s complicated.
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2 months ago |
sierraclub.org | Jessian Choy
J. Knox in San Francisco asks, "What does it mean when products are SCS Sustainably Grown certified?"There’s no federal law that defines common green agriculture terms like sustainable, carbon neutral, and regenerative. What’s more, those claims don’t always mean a product is certified organic or pesticide-free. Here’s what you need to know about these common eco-labels and what SCS Sustainably Grown in particular does and doesn’t cover.
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Feb 24, 2025 |
sierraclub.org | Jessian Choy
Photo by Peter Dazeley/Getty Images Q: What are the greenest household batteries? —Monica in Shutesbury, MassachusettsRechargeable ones. Standard batteries often contain toxic chemicals such as cadmium. None of the batteries we use are exactly great for the environment—mining for their components creates pollution and so does disposing of them in landfills and incinerators. On the positive side, low self-discharge nickel-metal hydride rechargeables last longer than single-use bat-teries.
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