An unrepentant globalist who supports universal human rights and multilateral institutions.

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Cake day: March 3rd, 2025

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  • Here are the steps in our journey over the past five years:

    • Subscribed to solar power for 100% of my electricity
    • Drive an electric car when I have to, but bike exclusively within a two mile radius
    • Bought a laundry line and line dry clothes
    • Eat a mostly whole food, plant-based diet with lots of legumes to maximize my health and wealth while cutting my climate impact
    • Slashed my single use plastics consumption as well as durable to reduce microplastics breathed and consumed
    • Visit a library once a week
    • Grow simple plants (green onions, basil)
    • Keep air conditioning to a minimum (live in Florida)
    • Buy used/refurbished preferentially
    • Pesticide-free outdoors to encourage native insect predators and now my backyard is filled with butterflies
    • Recycle maximally following all guidelines and produce less than 1/10th the waste stream of my neighbors for a family of four with two pets
    • Replaced older, less efficient air conditioning with newer, high efficiency

    I’m proud of what we’ve achieved, but there’s still more to do. In the next five years we will:

    • Replace our other, less driven ICE vehicle with an electric
    • Transition to full pesca-vegetarianism
    • Install balcony solar as hopefully it will become legal (or I will smuggle a system in from Utah or Vermont)
    • Plant fruit/shade trees
    • Paint our home a lighter, high albedo color
    • Blow in additional insulation in the attic
    • Install a home car charger
    • Replace the last of our plastic clothing with natural fibers

    2 tonnes CO2eq/person without carbon offsets for everything but travel is our end goal.