Essays on minimalism, sustainability, health, travel, history, and social issues.
The most sustainable energy is not renewable.
What if the greenest energy isn’t solar, wind or nuclear, but the electricity your building never needs in the first place? For thousands of years, homes heated and cooled themselves through orientation, shade, wind and thermal mass. Then we traded climate intelligence for glass towers and air conditioners. Passive solar design isn’t a futuristic innovation.…
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Every road leads to the same slaughterhouse
Why I am vegan. Climate change, ocean collapse, deforestation, and animal ethics all led to the same conclusion, and this essay lays out why.
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Freedom begins by reducing dependence
We spend our lives chasing numbers on a screen, believing wealth is what holds the world together. But beneath every currency, every market and every empire lies something far more fundamental: energy. Whoever controls energy controls transport. Whoever controls transport controls food. And whoever controls food shapes the fate of civilization.
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The end of outside
Air conditioning didn’t just adapt to climate change, it helped cause it. Why the real fix is passive cooling, not more machines.
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Why Overtourism Is a Capitalist Crisis
A new form of environmental propaganda has quietly gone mainstream, and it isn’t aimed at the industries driving the crisis. It’s aimed at the person who finally saved enough for a vacation. This essay argues that individual guilt is a diversion built by the same system it lets off the hook, and that the real…
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The Age of Intention
Why smartphones won’t be the final form of computing, and what comes after screens, apps, and endless scrolling.
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What Happens When You Stop Looking at Yourself
A few months living out of a van with almost no mirror changed how I see mirrors themselves. Drawing on Fernando Pessoa and, surprisingly, Michael Jackson, this essay asks whether mirrors show us who we are, or who we’re told to become. A look at vanity, self image, and the culture of constant self-checking in…
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How to Read a Rainforest
Trek Taman Negara near Kuala Tahan with the Batek people: jungle survival plants, poison blowpipes, and life inside one of the world’s oldest rainforests.
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The Bomb Craters That Became Bunkers Beneath Cu Chi
I went to Cu Chi expecting tunnels. I left thinking about something much bigger: what happens when people know their environment so intimately that they stop fighting against it and start working with it.
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Backpacking lost its soul
Travel used to demand curiosity, patience and a willingness to get uncomfortable. Now it often demands little more than a passport, a smartphone and enough money to follow someone else’s itinerary. As backpacking became easier and more performative, the barriers that once filtered for genuine curiosity disappeared. What replaced them was a culture of checklists,…
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