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1 week ago | bluedotliving.com | Tess Kazenoff

Plant-based travel and food content creator Eunice Reyes could find only one vegan-friendly restaurant when she first visited Valencia, Spain. “I was like, ‘Whoa, it would suck to be vegan here,’” Eunice recalled thinking. A year later, when she accepted an English teaching position in Spain, the irony wasn’t lost on her when she was placed in Valencia. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is hilarious. The one place where I thought it sucked to be plant-based is where I am now,’” she says.

1 week ago | bluedotliving.com | Elizabeth Weinstein

Dear Readers, Do you remember what your favorite shoes were when you were nine years old? I do. Mine were Airwalk sneakers, maroon with holographic sparkles that caught the light when I moved. I felt thrilled to be starting Mrs. Moser’s fourth grade class with such cool shoes, and I gazed at them often, wiggling my feet to make the colors dance. What were these glorious shoes made from? Pleather. Back then, in the ‘90s, we only really had two choices: plastic leather, aka pleather, and actual leather.

2 weeks ago | bluedotliving.com | Jamie Kageleiry

Can you hear it? Two notes, E and F, played by a solo cello. Dun. Dun Dun. Dun Dun. Dundun. Dundun. Dundun. Dundun dundun. Did you get a tingle down your spine just then? Most of us have felt varying degrees of terror (or thrills) at those sounds for the last 50 years. Jaws became what many film historians have called the first big summer blockbuster movie, playing to nonstop crowds at the Strand Theater in Oak Bluffs, and theaters across America in the summer of 1975.

2 weeks ago | bluedotliving.com | Julia Zarankin

The fiery orange throat of a springtime Blackburnian warbler is a showstopper. With a black-and-white back, a dark triangular cheek patch outlined in bright orange and a light belly elegantly striped on his sides, a male Blackburnian warbler sighting in breeding plumage is always cause to celebrate. The female has a more subdued color palette and her throat is often a buttery yellow, but she has the same distinctive dark triangular patch on her cheek.

2 weeks ago | bluedotliving.com | Diane Selkirk

By May 2019, journalism professor Sean Holman knew that something was missing from climate change reporting. The previous summer, British Columbia had endured its worst wildfire season on record — 2,115 fires had burned 1.35 million hectares (almost 3.5 million acres), choking cities with smoke and triggering frequent health advisories. Yet, despite the clear warning signs, the media rarely connected these local events to the larger climate crisis.