Change so effective it’s criminal — We have too much and we consume too much. The worst part is that we know it. Well, actually that’s not the worst part — the worst part is you (probably) know it's destroying the natural world. Our planet is going through an anthropogenic mass extinction. Oh, gard! Who wants…

That are fun and easy to remember — Everyone thinks learning Chinese is super hard. Some think it’s impossible. Actually, neither is true. Learning Chinese can and should be a lot of fun! The trick to getting good at Chinese, is interest, curiosity and by practicing speaking/reading/writing regularly. No doubt Chinese is a unique language. It’s can also…

The free market thinks so — Money is what money does. It makes the world go round, but it doesn’t grow on trees (or does it?). It also makes the planet hotter or cooler depending on what it’s spent on. From the latest IPCC reports to the excellent, but highly triggering article by fellow Medium writer…

Why Nobody Wants To Learn Chinese — It’s a difficult language. It’s probably the most difficult language for native English speakers to learn. But that’s never stopped anyone from mastering it before. From China’s most favourite foreigner 大山 (Canadian born Mark Roswell) to cross-talk genius, Julien Gaudfroy, mastering Chinese has been a sort of badge of honor…

And Why it’s Easy to Think it Is My parents and some of my older friends say that thinking about environmental issues is idealistic. That includes climate change. They don’t only say thinking about it is a waste of time, but talking about it and taking action is, too. Well…

Lucky to see a Great White? — The internet can’t get enough of shark attacks. That’s why it’s no surprise that my 1-minute video got more than a handful of views on YouTube. Yet, it was unexpected for a quarter of a million people to join me freediving that day in False Bay, Cape Town. If you…

This works too — You do not have to go Zero Waste to have an impact on the planet’s trash problem. In fact, it’s more effective for large groups of people to reduce their waste slightly (≥10%), than for small groups of people to go Zero Waste. If 100,000 people reduced their waste by…

Climate Action through Online Sobriety — Long flights, juicy beef burgers and rockets to Mars. That’s the kind of thing that might get you thinking about GHG emissions and climate change. But what about writing an article on medium? Each sentence in this article emitted milligrams of CO2 into earth’s atmosphere. Depending on where you live…

We’re so Overweight — It’s kind of like those before and after weight loss pictures on the internet. When you look at them, it’s hard to believe that the person in the after picture once looked like that. Sometimes it’s impossible to believe those were once the same people. The person in the after…