by Suzanne Whitby | 7 months ago | Notebook, Short. Honest. Human., To export
When falling down the internet “rabbit hole” recently, I came across a play that’s currently showing in New York. “The Pocket Kids Park” is all about a group of young friends and park visitors in conversation about how to save their local...
by Suzanne Whitby | 7 months ago | Notebook, Short. Honest. Human., To export
You don’t have to be big or powerful to contribute to climate action. Just think of zooplankton, tiny animals that are responsible for locking away as much planet-warming carbon as the annual emissions of roughly 55 million petrol cars (the equivalent of 65...
by Suzanne Whitby | 7 months ago | Notebook, Short. Honest. Human., To export
In early June, Leif Weatherby, the Director of NYU’s Digital Theory Lab, wrote a piece for the New York Times entitled “A.I. Killed the Math Brain”. In it, he puts forward the worry that “we, as a society, will become innumerate, not just...
by Suzanne Whitby | 7 months ago | Notebook, Short. Honest. Human., To export
Let’s reflect on cigarettes today and consider the scale of the problem they introduce: Cigarette butts are the most common item of litter collected from beach cleanups – worldwide, they amount to 845,000 tons of litter per year. An estimated 4.5 trillion...
by Suzanne Whitby | 8 months ago | Short. Honest. Human., To export
Amber Howard’s talking about affordable homes in Amsterdam. Innsbruck, where I live, is (apparently) now Austria’s most expensive city to live in. So what makes a place livable, for the people who already live there? More homes? Better use of small spaces? Ethical...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jan 12, 2025 | Notebook, Short. Honest. Human., To export
Some thoughts on Mel Robbins’ “Let Them” theory and how we can apply it to climate communication. I’ve recently finished reading Mel Robbins’ new book, “The Let Them Theory”. When it comes to climate communication and co-creating hopeful, sustainable futures, it feels...
