Living Sustainably: Five Easy Tips
It’s a handful of low-effort, eco-friendly choices from Low Entropy eco-friendly volunteer writer Nour Saqqa! When you hear bloggers, global organizations, artisans, and environmental activists tossing around the phrase ‘sustainable living’ enough times, you begin to wonder what it means and why you should care about it. Sustainable living involves becoming more aware […]
Too Hot to Handle
Low Entropy Volunteer Writer Prateek Sur opens up about how climate change has affected his personal and family life, and how it pushed him to move from India to Canada. There is no denying the fact that climate change is real. Having grown up in India and having stayed in a few different cities […]
From Jamshedpur
Low Entropy Volunteer Writer Prateek Sur shares details of his childhood and surroundings in Jamshedpur, a small city in India, and how they both shaped his life and career. The place where I grew up had an enormous effect on the way I think today as a mature adult. I grew up in the […]
Optimism, By Design
Low Entropy Volunteer Writer Amara Camacho shares five ideas to boost the positivity of our home environments and, in turn, ourselves. When it comes to boosting one’s mood, we often forget how great an influence our home environment is on our overall being. We keep relying on outside sources to make us happier but […]
The Meaning of Community
Low Entropy Volunteer Writer Grace Cheng tells us all about community – what it means and why it’s the bee’s knees. To me, a community is a group of people who have learned how to communicate openly and honestly with each other. Their relationships grow closer when they share their emotions in moments of […]
Never Give Up
In one magic moment, near some orange trees by the Caspian Sea, Simin Ghaffari – now in Low Entropy’s work experience program – discovered a source of resilience and gratitude within the horrifying violence of war. When I was 24 years old, my country, Iran, was war-torn. My father was an army officer, and […]
A Place You Love
Low Entropy Volunteer Writer Daniel Wilkens takes us on a walk through a secluded, beloved place. We are surrounded by chaos. Threats of job loss gnaw away at our feelings of security. We are bombarded with images of unrest and upheaval. Our very lives are threatened by a disease that seems determined to hunt […]
Lessons Learned from Gardening
Does the simple act of growing plants also help you to grow as a person? Low Entropy Volunteer Writer Robert Thompson was curious to find out, so he chatted with two family members about gardening and how their experiences might have affected their personal development. What does gardening mean to you? That’s an interesting […]
Sustainability, Interwoven
Low Entropy Volunteer Writer Joelle Chia didn’t just learn how to crochet – Joelle learned how to knit together a plan to tackle social, economic and environmental sustainability issues on a local level. When you hear the word “sustainability,” what first comes to mind? Sustainability is a word that has been increasingly used in […]
Outside-In
Low Entropy Volunteer Writer James Phan wonders if, by saving the planet, we aren’t also saving ourselves as well. What if environmental recovery was presented as the surface-level goal of waste reduction, with self-development as its profound depth? There are two ways to approach our manufactured waste dilemma. It seems the most popular […]