Zero Waste 101: Personal Care
What’s in your bathroom’s trash bin? Do you see plastic wrappers, bottles, tubs and tubes? That’s because your personal care routine is...
Adenieke Lewis-Gibbs (Carleton ‘20)
Adenieke Lewis-Gibbs (Carleton ‘20)
Adenieke Lewis-Gibbs is a Journalism and French double major at Carleton. She enjoys photography, graphic design, and photo editing. She loves travelling, writing, and learning languages and hopes to combine the three in her future career. She is a repeat sustainability writer and a big fan of recycling.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alewisgibbs
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Love Letter to my Beautiful, Black Hair
I have vivid childhood memories of my sitting on the floor or on a chair while someone - usually my mom or my aunt - yanking and tugging at...
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Zero Waste 101: Grocery Shopping
For a minute, forget the metal straws, the beeswax wraps and the canvas tote bags. Have you noticed which business produces nearly 1...
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The Anti-Haul: Why I’m Not Black Friday Shopping
I do not need more stuff. I do not need more stuff. I want more stuff, but I do not need more stuff. I’m going to do something crazy right...
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How to Make the Most Out of Your Day Off
In first year, I thought I was lucky to have Mondays off from school. It was like an extra-long weekend, every weekend. I would go home for...
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5 Fall Trends You Can Thrift
I hate to say it, but fall is around the corner. Especially as Ottawa’s mid-September days grow cooler, windier and rainier, it’s just...
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A Conversation with Sparklesaurus
“Electric honey,” Felicity DeCarle said, quoting the term drummer Brad Lapensee coined. “I feel like that really encompasses us. It’s sweet...
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How to Reduce Your Environmental Footprint
In the last few months of 2017, I was trying to find something that I needed to change in my life. It was almost 2018, after all. "New year...
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Why I Chose To Study Abroad
I’ve always been big on travel, or at least since I was in my early teens. Even when I was younger than that, I still loved getting out and...
