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I’m in Newsweek! Check it out!

I’m super excited to have received the opportunity to talk about Year of No Garbage in Newsweek. Please check it out and let me know your thoughts. Two notes: Bear in mind that I did not choose the stock image of oil being poured back into a plastic bottle- because of microplastics I would never […]

What Do Bottle Caps Have to Do With Congress?

Remember how Bert on Sesame Street had a beloved bottle cap collection? Those were the old-fashioned kind of caps: metal ones from soda bottles with tiny colorful pictures and logos. Me, I’ve been collecting plastic caps. After our Year of No Garbage (2020) I offered them up on a local online message board and gave […]

Year of No Garbage is Coming

Things have been awfully quiet here at the eveschaub blog… too quiet. Something must be— you know— up. As it turns out, that something is Year of No Garbage THE BOOK! Coming to a book seller near you! THE DETAILS: WHAT’S THE OFFICIAL TITLE? Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman’s […]

The Plastic Fairy and The Honey Badger

I’ve been waiting for the Plastic Fairy to come and make four, enormous, 55-gallon black plastic garbage bags disappear, so I can have my basement back. She’s coming, right? While I wait, I’ve been pondering the weirdness of the extreme, life-changing, year-long project. Now that our family has completed three of these hornet swarms, I […]

More Comedy- And More No Garbage

I realized that due to that pesky zombie apocalypse I completely forgot to post my two most recently published comedy pieces- both Xmas themed- here are the links so that you may read them and have your life changed forever:  In other news, I’ve been doing a lot on the front of Year of No […]

Hey I Got My FIRST Comedy Piece Published

Yes, my first ever published comedy piece came out today on The Belladonna and I am totally not freaking out at all about that. Please read it and be profoundly changed forever.

Greta Thunberg Flips Off Enthusiastic UN Climate Change Conference, Lights Podium on Fire

GLASGOW—The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, got off to a bang Sunday night with a highly anticipated keynote speech delivered by youth climate activist and Swiss truant Greta Thunberg. The address included forty-seven minutes of angry staring, a series of Swedish obscene hand gestures, and culminated in a surprise conflagration that […]

Diving Deep On No Garbage

Although it may seem quiet here on the Year of No Garbage blog, in person I’ve gone into high gear. These days I am working on the book manuscript, tap dancing for publishers, and generally talking about No Garbage ALL. THE. TIME. One of the nicest people to talk to about No Garbage with is […]

Year of No Garbage Featured in Hyperallergic

I am super excited to announce that I have an opinion piece recently published in the online magazine Hyperallergic, on the state of contemporary recycling. Please check it out!! As I’ve spent the last few months finalizing Year of No Garbage the book, I’ve continued to learn more about contemporary recycling, and the outlook is, […]

How Do You Celebrate Earth Day, Anyway?

I’ve been wondering this, and so have Hamburger and Max. They’ve migrated to YouTube now, so be sure to follow them, like them, and send them secret messages in invisible ink.