BIPOC

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Minimal: How to Simplify Your Life and Live Sustainably by Madeleine Olivia

Airbnb, An Inconvenient Truth, BIPOC, carbon footprint, clean water, climate anxiety, Extinction Rebellion, food desert, food miles, hustle culture, Mason jar, microplastics / micro fibres, Naomi Klein, ocean acidification

Smaller businesses rely on your money to keep going, and if we want slow and ethical fashion to become the norm, we have the power to make a shift with our wallets. Support BIPOC Furthermore, buy from BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) creators, makers and fashion designers to support their long-standing work in the ethical and slow fashion community. Diversity is key to ethical fashion. Follow @buyfrombipoc to get involved and commit to purchasing from BIPOC creatives and sharing their work with your friends, family and online. Handmade Look on social media and places such as Etsy for people who create handmade clothing from natural materials.

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Page references in italics indicate images * * * air-drying 62, 234 air freshener 51, 231, 240 air travel 4, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259–60, 264 alcohol 16, 52, 134 all-purpose cleaner 238 almond cheese 185, 191 aloe vera 50, 132, 140, 150, 155 animals: agriculture/products 2, 4, 52, 68, 70, 92–3, 126–7, 161, 162, 163, 165–6, 168, 169, 170, 172, 250, 300; cruelty 83, 123, 126–7, 164, 165–6, 168, 261, 266, 269; shelters 19, 34, 41, 74; testing on 123, 126–7, 266, 269 apartment composting250–1 apple cider vinegar 131, 133, 147 apples 184 argan oil 132, 133, 138, 150, 269 avocados 132, 166, 219 * * * backpacks 51, 67, 100, 267, 268, 270 bags 38, 51, 65, 67, 73, 74, 79, 182, 187, 229, 230, 262, 267, 268, 269, 300 see also plastic bartering 109 BB cream/light foundation 130 beach clean 65, 266 beauty see health and beauty bicarbonate of soda 149, 154, 156, 176, 236, 237, 238, 241, 242 BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) 114 black bean burger 185, 208–9 bleach, hair and 145 body hair 121, 155 body scan 285 body scrub 153 bokashi system 251 books 40, 52, 75, 231, 246, 247 borrowing 21, 23, 63, 66, 104, 105 bottles 18, 52, 62, 60, 65, 67, 73, 77, 78, 79, 83, 125, 215, 230, 231, 237, 262, 266, 268, 294 boxing 46 brands 4, 10, 59, 68, 90, 91, 92, 93, 104, 109, 110–17, 125, 126, 127, 143, 144 bread 182, 183, 184, 185, 186–7 breaks, taking 283, 284 breathing 288–9 broken dishes 74 bronzer 131 budgets 22, 23, 24–6, 27, 44, 72, 108, 259, 263, 264 bulk buying 70, 124, 182, 228, 229 buying see shopping * * * canvas tote bag 262 capitalism 4, 9 carbon emissions/footprint 16, 62, 83, 103, 161, 162, 164, 255–60 cardboard 19, 67, 77, 216, 246, 249, 250 carpet deodoriser 241 carrier/base oils 138 cashew cheese sauce 185, 192 cashew industry 166 castile soap 149, 236, 240, 241, 242 charity/thrift shop 2, 17, 18, 19, 34, 39, 46, 74, 75, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 173 chickpeas, roasted 185, 211 China 126 chocolate truffles 185, 212–13 chopping board cleaner 242 clay detox 149 cleaning: every evening 232; fridge and pantry 183; homemade products 236–7; recipes for DIY products 238–43; travelling and 266 climate change 3–4, 57, 60, 82, 91, 162, 164, 166, 172, 257, 258, 259, 296, 300 closet, creating a curated and capsule 98–100 clothes see wardrobe and fashion coconut oil 50, 131, 155 coffee 24, 26, 132, 171, 213, 230, 250, 265 coffee cups 57, 67, 73, 263 cold wash 62 colour palette 98, 99, 255 comparison 290–1 composting 19, 39, 60, 74, 75, 78–9, 157, 183, 189, 196, 224, 228, 229, 239, 249–51, 263: apartment composting 250–1; guide to composting 248–51; garden composting 249–50 concealer 121, 125, 130, 269 conditioner 50, 79, 123, 145, 150, 269 confidence, appearance and 14–15 cooking: from scratch 52, 63, 185–219 see also recipes; saving energy while 235 cream blusher 130, 209 crisps, homemade 185, 210 crockery and utensils 39 cruelty-free beauty 126–7 cutlery 67, 73, 146, 147, 230, 263, 268 cycling 63, 271 * * * declutter:1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 11–12, 17–53: before you begin 20 books/magazines 40; budget, creating a 22, 23, 24–6, 27, 44; carried away, getting 28–9; clothing and see wardrobe and fashion; comparing and 28; digital workspace 42–3; documents/papers 40; duplicates 47 see also duplicates; DVDs/CDs/games/toys 40; electronics, gadgets and wires 40; explained 9–13; finishing/using things up 18; 5-step guide, simple 31–7, 36, 37; food and drink and see food and drink; giving things away for free 18, 19; goals 20; hacks and tips, top 46–8; health and beauty see health and beauty; home see home, the; improving your life with 14–16; keep to your own stuff 28; learning how to say goodbye 29; motivation for 20; negative thoughts and 44; no-spend challenge 23; notepads and stationery 40; ‘one in, one out’ rule 47; organising and 48; piles of yes, no and maybe 32, 33, 37, 43, 46; questions to ask yourself 27; recycling/composting 19 see also composting and recycling ; regularly 232; relationships, loving 43; repurposing items 18, 28–9 see also repurpose; selling online 18 see also selling; separating your donations 19; shopping ban 21–3; slowly 18, 27; spending habits, re-evaluating 44 ; sustainably, how to 17–29; swapping items 18 see also swaps ; things to get rid of now 30; thinking ahead 28; time, organising your 43; toiletries 127, 128, 129; travel and see travel ; unhealthy habits, ending 44 decorating 233, 235, 247 deforestation 162 deodorant 154, 269 Depop 34, 38, 71, 107, 109 disposal, proper 79 distilled white vinegar 147 DIY, easy home 244–5 doing nothing 284 documents/papers 40 donation 17, 19, 28, 33, 34, 37, 38, 41, 47, 74, 75, 109, 183, 251 drain cleaner 242 draught excluders 235 drinks 185, 218–19 duplicates 30, 47, 52 DVDs/CDs/games/toys 40, 52, 231 * * * eating disorders 2, 16, 84, 121, 172, 292 eating out 24, 26, 180, 183, 265–6 eating without distractions 284 eBay 34, 38, 40, 70, 107, 109 eco accommodation 265 eco anxiety 83 eco edits/conscious/recycled collections 116 eco-home, how to have an 234–7 electronics 40, 71, 73, 74, 75, 246, 247 email 21, 42, 68, 82, 112, 126, 282 equipment and appliances, decluttering 39 essential oils 51, 133, 231, 237 eyebrow pencil 131 * * * Facebook 19, 34, 71, 107 facial mist 140 facial oil 135, 137, 140, 209 factory farming 4, 92, 165 farmers’ market 65, 67, 177, 251 fashion see wardrobe and fashion Fashion Revolution 112 fast fashion 2, 51, 65, 68, 70, 89–93, 100, 103, 105, 104, 110, 116, 296, 300 fast travel 273 files 42 finding places for everything 233 finishing/using things up 18 fish 58, 162, 166, 167, 169 fixing things 32, 33, 41, 59, 63, 64 floor cleaner 236, 241 ‘floordrobe’ 15 food and drink 2, 25, 28–9, 39, 67, 158–219: animal agriculture/products 2, 4, 52, 68, 70, 92–3, 126–7, 161, 162, 163, 165–6, 168, 169, 170, 172, 250, 300; composting see composting; ethics of 165–7; food footprint 161–7; growing your own food 72, 235; kitchen staples 173–6; meat eating 2, 161, 162, 164, 165, 167, 168, 169, 171, 172; packaging see packaging; recipes 185–219 see also recipes; seasonal food guide 177–9, 177; self-care and 294–5; swaps 52, 164, 171–2, 187, 196, 213, 214, 215; veganism 168–72 see also veganism; vegetarianism see vegetarianism; waste 57, 63, 65, 70, 71, 78, 79, 167, 180–4, 187, 250, 251, 266 fossil fuels 4, 63, 164, 234 freebies 68 fridge and food pantry, decluttering 39 furniture 15, 18, 19, 34, 41, 71, 74, 223, 224, 231, 235, 237, 240, 244, 245, 247 furniture polish 241 * * * garden composting 249–50 giving things away 18, 19 giving up a purchase 65 glass bottles 215 glass jars, reusing 73, 133, 174 goal setting 15–16, 20, 22, 25, 103, 280–1, 282, 283, 286, 287, 292 going outside into nature 288 Google 18, 82, 111, 113, 170, 177 granola 185, 197 gratitude list 285 green-energy providers 234, 300 greenhouse gasses 16, 57, 62, 78, 82, 83, 103, 161, 162, 163, 164, 248, 256, 257, 258, 259 growing your own food 72, 235 growth, personal 15–16 Gumtree 34, 71 * * * hair 143–51: acidic rinses 147; alkaline wash methods 149; avoid/reduce, what to 144–5; clay detox 149; conditioner only 150; dry shampoo 151; hair refresh spray 150; low poo approach 150; OH poo 149; no poo methods 145–8; pH-balanced wash methods 148; refresh spray 150; tea rinse 148; type 143; water only 146–7 handbags 38, 51 handmade clothing 114 health and beauty 118–57: beginner’s tips 133; body 152–7 cruelty-free beauty 126–7; hair 143–51; magical natural; beauty ingredients 131–2; makeup routine, minimal and natural 130–2; mental and physical health, primacy of 296; minimal beauty 121–4; skin 134–42; toiletries, decluttering 127, 128, 129; toxic beauty and beauty waste 123–7 herbs 175 hobbies 289–90 home, the 220–51: cleaning products, easy recipes for DIY 238–43; cleaning products, homemade 236–7; composting guide 248–51; decluttering 223–5, 226, 227; decorating a minimal 247; DIY 244–5; eco-home, how to have an 234–7; routines and habits, minimalist home 232–3; swaps, sustainable and minimal 228–31; tidy home, a 246 homeless shelters 17, 19, 74 hostels 265 hot chocolate 185, 213, 218 hotels 261, 265, 266 household décor, reusing/repurposing and 74 household items swaps 51, 228–31 human rights 92 hummus 185, 216 * * * Indigenous communities 4, 114, 162, 164, 166 Indonesia 164 ingredients, gathering 133 Instagram 60, 113, 122, 123, 255 * * * jars 33, 73, 133, 174, 182, 229, 244, 245 jewellery 38–9, 51, 246 junk drawers 43, 233, 246 * * * kitchen 39, 47, 49, 51, 73, 189, 232–3, 235, 246, 251, 265, 278: decluttering 39; makeover 244; staples 173–6; swaps 51, 229 * * * labels 109, 111, 124, 127, 133, 169, 266, 295 landfill 17, 19, 57, 58, 62, 67, 70, 71, 72, 77, 78, 91, 155, 224, 248 languages, travel and 272 laundry detergent 62, 78, 236, 239 LED lightbulbs 234 legumes 174 lemons/lemon juice 132, 147, 156, 237 letting go 291 linen/towels 41 lip balm 131, 141, 269 lip scrub 140 listening 285 living in the present 291 local community garden 251 local people, travel and 261, 272–3 local shopping/produce 70, 72, 113, 152, 177, 265 Logical Harmony 126 loose fruit and veg 214 * * * ‘Make Do and Mend’ 59 makeup 2, 121, 123, 124, 126, 131, 135, 137, 136, 140, 246, 269, 279, 287: routine, minimal and natural 130–2 making it last 71, 93, 117 Marketplace 34, 71, 107 mascara 124, 130, 269 materials, checking 66, 68, 78, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 116, 126, 264 meal plan and prep, food waste and 180 meal recipes, main 195–209 see also recipes meat eating 2, 161, 162, 164, 165, 167, 168, 169, 171, 172 Meatless Mondays 167 media 10, 21, 57, 89, 121, 155, 278 mending 59, 95 menstrual products 52, 71, 155, 156, 228, 269 mental health 15, 60, 84, 277, 288, 293, 295, 296 methane emissions 57, 78, 162, 163, 248 microwave cleaner 240 milk 148, 166, 169, 171, 172, 175, 184, 185, 300: plant milk 184, 185, 188, 190, 195, 219, 300 mindfulness 1, 10, 17, 24, 34, 53, 60, 80, 93, 98, 103, 157, 234, 256, 260, 285, 287, 292: mindful daily tasks 284–5; mindful of what you absorb, being 292; morning routine 286 minimalism 1, 2, 5: ambitions 15–16; buying, stop 49–53; clothing and see wardrobe and fashio; declutter sustainably 17–45 see also declutter; explained 9–13; food and drink and see food and drink; hacks and tips, top 46–8; health and beauty see health and beauty ; home and see home; improving your life with 14–16; stereotype of minimalists 3; travel and see travel ; waste and sustainability and see waste, sustainability and moisturiser 34, 132, 137, 141, 152, 269 money, saving 14, 22, 62–3, 103, 235, 236, 261 morning routine 267, 286 mould and mildew 240 movement, physical health and 295 MP, local 82 muesli 185, 198 * * * napkins 263 negative thoughts 44 newspapers/magazines/paper, reusing 73 ‘no poo’ method 145, 146–7, 150 notepads and stationery 40 nourishing oils 138–9 nut butters 185, 188 nut-free cheese 185, 193 * * * oatmeal and almond scrub 134 oceans 3–4, 58, 91, 162, 166, 183, 266 oil cleanser 136–7 olive oil 50, 176, 237 ‘one in, one out’ rule 47, 104 organisation 15 oven cleaner 242 overconsumption 182 overripe bananas 184 overtourism 260–1 over-washing 145 Oxford Martin School 162 Oxford University 162 * * * packaging 38, 39, 59, 63, 67–8, 70, 73, 77, 78, 123, 124, 125, 127, 144, 182, 183, 229, 230, 262 packing list, minimalist 267–70 palm oil production 164 pampering 287 pantry 39, 73, 173, 176, 183, 185 paperless, go 68 parabens 266 pasta, creamy one-pot 185, 205 patience, practicing 108 peeling, avoid 182 periods 52, 71, 155: period underwear 52, 71, 155–6, 228 pesto 185, 215 petition, starting a 65 pH-balanced wash methods 148 phone 10, 13, 25, 40, 42, 44, 45, 52, 62, 78, 79, 104, 279, 282, 284 putting down your 289 scrolling at night 48 switching off 284 physical activity/exercise 286, 288, 293, 294 piles of yes, no and maybe 32, 33, 37, 43, 46 plastic 3, 4, 5, 38, 39, 50, 51, 57, 58, 59, 60, 63, 65, 70, 82, 194, 196, 228, 229, 230, 243, 250, 265, 266, 268: bags 51, 67, 73, 74, 78, 229, 230; bottles 60, 61, 62, 67, 79, 215; cardboard over 216; packaging 66, 67, 70, 72, 123, 125, 155, 182, 183, 187, 216, 229, 236, 262, 298; single-use 2, 67–8, 73, 83, 228, 256, 262, 263; straws 57, 65, 67, 229; thin vs hard 209 pollution 58, 92, 155, 162, 166, 236, 248, 256 porridge 174, 188: easy breakfast porridge 185, 195–6 Poshmark 107 potatoes 174, 184 priorities 12, 277, 280, 282, 283 ‘Project 333’ 98 putting things off 283 * * * rechargeable batteries 52, 234 recipes 185–219: bread 186–7 cardboard over plastic swap 216 drinks 218–19: hot chocolate 218; smoothies 219; fresh coffee over coffee pods swap 213; glass bottles over plastic bottles swap 215; loose fruit and veg swap 214 main meals 195–209: black bean burger 208–9; creamy one-pot pasta 205; easy breakfast porridge 195–6; easy vegetable curry 206–7; granola 197; high-protein stew/chilli 202–3; muesli 198; seasonal stir-fry 200–1; tofu scramble 199; winter soup 204 nut butters 188 plant milk 190 sauces/dips 214–17: hummus 216; pesto 215; salsa 217; tomato ketchup 214 snacks 210–13: chocolate truffles 212–13; homemade crisps 210; roasted chickpeas 211 thin plastic vs hard plastic swap 209 tinned foods over plastic packaged foods swap 187 vegetable stock 189 vegan butter 194 vegan cheese 191–3: almond cheese 191; cashew cheese sauce 192; nut-free cheese 193 recycling 2, 17, 19, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 57, 59, 62, 66, 67, 73, 77–80, 81, 109, 110, 112, 124, 125, 127, 133, 229, 230, 265: beauty products 123, 133, 140, 152; clothing 116; disposing of things properly 79–80; food and drink and 78–9, 187, 209, 250, 251; learning about 78; recycling more 77–8; at school and work 79; system, creating a 77; take it home 79; wash, then recycle 7; what can and can’t be recycled 80 reduce 3, 10, 11, 12, 22, 24, 25, 28, 47, 49: carbon footprint 16, 62, 83, 103, 161, 164, 255–60; food footprint see food and drink; health and beauty waste see health and beauty; home waste and see home; travel waste and see travel ; wardrobe and fashion waste see wardrobe and fashion; waste, importance of 54–85 re-evaluating what’s important 16 refresher declutter 99 refusing, sustainability and 66–9 relationships, loving 43 renewable energy 63, 234, 265 repairing 32, 34, 74, 75, 90, 95, 235, 290 repurpose 17, 18, 28, 29, 30, 33, 39, 63, 66, 73–6, 80, 231, 235, 240, 245, 246 rest, importance of 295 reuse 18, 50, 51, 52, 62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 71, 73–6, 77, 296, 300: health and beauty and 155, 156, 157; food and drink and 173, 174; home and 228, 229, 230, 239, 244; travel and 256, 262–3, 268, 269 rice and grains 174 * * * salsa 185, 217 salt 237 sanitary pads, reusable 156 sauces/dips 214–17 saying no 283 sea salt 50, 132, 175 seasonal fashion 28, 90, 99, 102, 110 seasonal food 72, 164, 167, 185, 200, 201, 204: guide 177–9, 177 secondhand 18, 23 clothes 51, 59, 63, 71, 90, 93, 100, 106–9 furniture and appliances 231, 235 self-care 6, 157, 274–97: body and mind, taking care of 293–5; defining 277–8; food and 294–5; goal setting 280–1; living in the present 291–2; mental and physical health, primacy of 296; mindful daily tasks 284–5; minimising your life 278–9; morning routine 286; physical activity and exercise 288; putting things off 283; rest 295; time, organising your 282–3; tips 287–92; water, importance of 294 self-catered accommodation 265–6 selling unwanted items 19, 22, 29, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 74, 75, 79, 104 sentimental items 41, 98 shampoo 10, 18, 50, 123, 125, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 236, 266, 269 shea butter 132 shoes 10, 14, 18, 19, 38, 51, 100, 106, 108, 109, 113, 268, 269 shopping 2, 3, 4, 14, 17, 18, 1: ban 21–3, 44; food see food and drink; health and beauty see health and beauty; home see home; secondhand see secondhand travel and see travel; waiting before 48; wardrobe and fashion see wardrobe and fashion; waste and see waste, sustainability and silicones 144, 145, 150, 156, 230 skin care 134–42: carrier/base oils 138–9; essential oils 138–9; facial mist 140; facial oil 135; lip balm 141; lip scrub 140; my facial oil 136; nourishing oils 138–9; oatmeal and almond scrub 134; oil cleanser 136–7; skin type 142 sleep 278, 287, 293, 294, 295 slow fashion 51, 93, 113, 114 slow travel 260, 270–3 smoothies 184, 185, 219 snacks 185, 210–13 soap 50, 125, 149, 152, 228, 236, 239, 240, 241, 243, 269 soap nuts 237, 239 social anxiety 2, 16, 121 social media 10, 42, 112, 113, 114, 122, 171, 256, 260, 289, 290, 292 sorting 33, 37, 38 spending habits, re-evaluating 44 spices and seasoning 175 spot test 133 stain remover 243 stale bread 184 staycation 264 sterilising 133, 156, 157 stew/chilli, high-protein 185, 202–3 still, being/staying 273 stir-fry, seasonal 185, 200–1 storage 31, 33, 46, 71, 73, 74, 75, 174, 182, 244, 246 stress 11, 53, 84, 134, 255, 267, 279, 282 stretching 284 success, defining 10 sulfates 144, 145, 150 sun cream 266 Support BIPOC 114 surfaces, clearing 47, 224, 232–3 sustainability:: decluttering and see decluttering; five 5Rs of 66–80, 81; food and drink and see food and drink; guilt, health and taking action on 83–4; health and beauty and see health and beauty; home and see home; journey towards 59–61; living, sustainable 1–5; travel and see travel; waste and see waste, sustainability and; wardrobe/fashion and see wardrobe and fashion swaps 18, 72, 90, 125 beauty products 50 clothes and accessories 51, 107 food 164, 171, 187, 196, 209, 213, 214, 215, 216, 300 household 51, 228–31, 234, 243 * * * talking, importance of 290 tampons 71, 156, 157, 228 tea rinse 148 tea tree oil 132 technology 52, 75 Thred Up 107 throwing away, avoiding 33, 57, 74, 124, 182, 183 time, organising your 43, 47–8, 282–3 tins and cans 73, 77, 175, 187, 245 to-do list, daily 282 tofu scramble 185, 199 toilet cleaner 238 toiletries 9, 28, 31, 38, 77, 125, 127, 128, 129, 133, 268, 269 see also health and beauty tomato ketchup 185, 214 toxic beauty 123–4 travel 125, 252–73: accommodation, eco 265–6; author’s travel experience 255–6; bags/backpacks 262, 267, 268; cleaning up 266; damaging impact of/CO2 emissions and 256–60; overtourism 260–1; packing list, minimalist 267–70; reusables 262–3; shopping/buying smart 264, 265; slow travel 270–3; staycation 264 Tupperware 39, 73, 174, 229, 262, 263 * * * unhealthy habits, ending 44, 45 unisex shops 108 * * * vegan diet 1, 2, 3, 52, 84, 111, 126, 162, 167, 168–72, 185, 208, 215, 300: tips for beginners 168–72; vegan butter 185, 194; vegan cheese 170, 191–3, 209; vegan nutella 188; veganwashing 127 Vegan Society, The 168 vegetables 67, 162, 167, 174, 177, 178, 179, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 249, 250: easy vegetable curry 206–7; growing your own 72, 235; loose 214; old 184; vegetable stock 189 vegetarian diet 161, 162, 215, 250 Vestaire Collective 38, 107 vintage shops 34, 71, 106 Vinted 107 * * * wardrobe and fashion 86–117: animal products 92–3; brands, investigating 110–12; brands, shopping at ethical; and independent 113–15, 116–17; capsule closet, creating a curated and 98–100; decluttering your wardrobe 94–5, 96–7; fashion apps 107, 108; fast fashion 2, 51, 65, 68, 70, 89–93, 100, 103, 104, 105, 110, 116, 296, 300; human rights and 92; mending your clothes 95; minimalist style, finding your 102; secondhand shopping 51, 106–9; shopping smart 116–1; shopping sustainably 103–5; slow fashion 51, 93; waste and the environment 91 washing-up liquid/dish soap 240 waste, sustainability and 2, 3, 16, 17, 47, 49, 54–85, 81: fashion industry and 90, 91, 92, 117, 123–4, 125, 149, 153, 155, 156, 157 see also wardrobe and fashion; food and drink 39, 161, 162, 167, 173, 180, 182, 183, 178, 189, 189 see food and drink; fun and easy things to do to reduce 65; guilt, health and taking action on 83–4; home 223, 224, 228, 229, 234, 248, 249, 250, 251 see also home; how you can reduce your waste list 64; importance of reducing 57–8; journey towards sustainability 59–61; local representatives, getting in touch with 80; recycle 77–80, 81 see also recycling; reduce 70–2, 81 see also reduce; refuse 66–9, 81 ; reuse and repurpose 73–6 see also reuse and repurpose; saving money, reducing waste and 62–3; three changes you have made to be more sustainable and reduce waste 65; three ways to further reduce your waste in future 65; travel and 265, 266 see also travel ; ‘zero waste’ 61, 84, 182 waste disposal 58, 164 water: bottles 52, 62, 65, 77, 83, 230, 231, 262, 268; pollution 91, 92, 162, 166; self-care and 294, 295; waste/consumption 91, 134, 162, 235; ‘water only’ haircare routine 146, 147 white vinegar 51, 147, 231, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243 windows and mirrors, cleaning product for 239 winter soup 185, 204 women’s shelters 17, 19, 38 wooden pallets 245 workspaces 43 worm bins 251 * * * YouTube channels 2, 170 THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING Find us online and join the conversation Follow us on Twitter twitter.com/penguinukbooks Like us on Facebook facebook.com/penguinbooks Share the love on Instagram instagram.com/penguinukbooks Watch our authors on YouTube youtube.com/penguinbooks Pin Penguin books to your Pinterest pinterest.com/penguinukbooks Listen to audiobook clips at soundcloud.com/penguin-books Find out more about the author and discover your next read at penguin.co.uk This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law.

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The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions by Greta Thunberg

"World Economic Forum" Davos, accounting loophole / creative accounting, air freight, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anthropocene, basic income, Bernie Sanders, biodiversity loss, BIPOC, bitcoin, British Empire, car-free, carbon credits, carbon footprint, carbon tax, circular economy, clean water, cognitive dissonance, coronavirus, COVID-19, David Attenborough, decarbonisation, degrowth, disinformation, energy transition, Extinction Rebellion, Food sovereignty, global pandemic, global supply chain, Global Witness, green new deal, green transition, Greta Thunberg, housing crisis, Indoor air pollution, informal economy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invisible hand, Jeff Bezos, land tenure, late capitalism, lockdown, mass immigration, megacity, meta-analysis, microplastics / micro fibres, military-industrial complex, Naomi Klein, negative emissions, ocean acidification, offshore financial centre, oil shale / tar sands, out of africa, phenotype, planetary scale, planned obsolescence, retail therapy, rewilding, social distancing, supervolcano, tech billionaire, the built environment, Thorstein Veblen, TikTok, Torches of Freedom, Tragedy of the Commons, universal basic income, urban sprawl, zoonotic diseases

Fast-forward to today, and the ravages of white supremacy, upheld by the extractive economy, persist. Dehumanization and exploitation based on race continue to be the modus operandi. In the United States, beyond the profound suffering of Black people at the hands of the police forces and the prison industrial complex, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) communities are considered disposable in service to moneyed interests across the country. Sacrifice zones – areas that border environmental threats or dangerous pollution – are overwhelmingly populated by low-income families and people of colour. These hazardous areas have developed in Crossett, Arkansas; East Chicago, Indiana; Wilmington, Delaware; and beyond.

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See farming air-conditioning, 52, 138–9, 157, 183 air pollution, 25, 28, 51–2, 57–9, 96, 133, 135, 137, 138, 140–42, 141, 157, 163, 290, 378–9, 427 Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, 164, 221 algae, 7, 15, 233, 246, 340, 345 Amazon rainforest, 14, 38, 39, 82, 91, 93, 96, 97, 99–101, 176 American Clean Energy and Security Act (2009), 30 amines, 238 ammonia 55, 273 Amsterdam, 333–4 Andhra Pradesh, India, 151, 152–3 Anishinaabe people, 415 ‘announced pledges’ 261 Antarctica, 33, 38, 39, 72, 76–7, 80, 82, 85, 91, 114, 124 Anthropocene, 32, 33, 37, 76, 310, 380 antibiotic resistance, 147–8 apathy, overcoming climate, 337–9 aquifers, 88, 170 Arctic: Indigenous people of, 173–5, 418; jet stream and, 62–6, 63, 64; methane release, 118–21, 120, 239; permafrost deposits, 91, 118–21, 120; sea ice melt, 24, 33, 38, 39, 51, 62–6, 63, 64, 76, 91, 93, 114, 115, 124, 173–5, 233; wildfires, 98 Arctic Ocean, 62, 86, 91, 118, 124 Arrhenius, Svante, 23 Asia: climate refugees in 167; Covid-19 and, 380–81; diet transition in, 249; food systems, 253, 254; heat-related deaths in, 137; monsoon, 83; per capita carbon dioxide emissions (2019) 408; plastic pollution, 296, 297; rewilding in, 350; transport greenhouse gas emissions, 266, 266, 267, 273, 275, 276–7; undernutrition in, 246; waste generation, 291, 292, 293, 425; water supply, 73; wealth and greenhouse gas emissions in, 406; weather events, 65 Atlantic Coast Pipelines, 164 Atlantic Ocean 38, 39, 75, 121, 164, 170, 192, 293, 294, 325, 349; Atlantic heat conveyer, 39; Atlantification, 121; Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), 39, 81–3, 82, 344 Attenborough, Sir David, 370 attribution science, 67–9, 75, 97 Australia, 4, 9, 11–15, 16–17, 27, 51, 74, 75, 97–8, 109, 155, 209, 221, 250, 254, 258 authoritarian regimes, 181, 192, 412, 433 averaged relative environmental impact (AREI), 249, 249, 250, 250 aviation: carbon dioxide emissions statistics and, 4, 156, 212, 269–70, 306, 389, 429, 430, 434; carbon taxes and, 407; as driver of global warming, 55; electrification of, 271, 273; equity and carbon dioxide emissions from, 275; flygskam (flight shame), 329; frequent flying, 207, 270, 325, 333; greenhouse gas emissions from in 1970, 1990 and 2010, 266, 266, 269–70; offsets, 209; private jets, 280, 312, 333; reducing/giving up flying, 325, 328, 329, 434 B Badain Jaran Desert, China, 241, 242–3 Bangladesh, 69, 159–60, 282, 371, 413–14 bark beetle, 192 barn swallow, 115 Batagaika crater, Siberia, 93, 94–5 batteries, 26, 56, 220, 222, 226, 228, 268, 272, 273 BBC, 370 BC Provincial Inventory Report (2021), 105 beaches, 86, 169–70, 296 beavers, 12, 349, 415 BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage), 212, 216, 237, 238, 303 beef, 248–51, 288, 312, 338, 341–2, 343 bees, 108, 110, 111, 339 beetles, 104 Bergmann’s rule, 114 Bernays, Edward: Propaganda 332, 333 big-eared hopping mouse, 13 biodiversity: Aichi Biodiversity Targets (2010), 90, 93; Amazon rainforest and, 101; BECCS and, 212; biomass energy and, 229; food systems and, 246–7, 248–9, 252, 253, 254–5, 342; forests and, 101, 102–9, 103, 104, 105, 108, 231, 232; GDP and, 307; ‘hotspots’ 14, 96, 111, 418; Indigenous communities and, 172, 177, 417–19; insect, 111, 112; ocean, 85, 344–5, 346, 347; planting trees and, 430; sea-level rise and, 170; severe threats to around the world 108; soil and, 116; solar power and, 228; Sustainable Development Goals and, 90; terrestrial, 32, 34, 106–9, 108; transport and, 265; wildfires and, 96 biofuels, 140, 211, 226–7, 237, 268, 271, 431, 432 biogenic emissions, 4, 156, 212, 389, 429, 430 biogeography, 85 biomass burning, 91–2, 99, 211, 212, 216, 225, 226, 229, 231, 237, 238, 280, 302, 303, 431 birds: biomass, 244; extinction, 12–13, 107, 150, 360, 415–17; habitat loss, 102, 250; migratory, 113–15; songbirds, 415–17 black-and-white issues, 2, 20 black carbon, 53, 55, 99, 119, 121, 190–91 Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities, 163 Black Panther Party, 413 body size, reductions in species, 114 Bondo, Switzerland, 91 border controls, 168 boreal forest, 38, 91, 93, 102–4, 103, 104, 105, 109, 115, 121, 230, 231, 245 both-sidesism, 91, 432 Bramble Cay melomys, 14–15, 109 Brazil, 93, 100, 176, 245, 258, 350, 413 Break Free From Plastic, 296 bridge fuel, 30 bridging technology, 232 British Columbia, 50, 98, 102, 104–5, 104, 322–3, 325, 408–9 British Petroleum, 326 British Virgin Islands, 170 Broecker, Wallace (Wally), 78, 83 burgers, 341 ‘burning embers’ graph, 39 Bush, George H.

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See also wealth India, 28, 38, 69, 88–9, 151, 152–3, 155, 183, 183, 258, 259, 296, 297, 308, 315, 397, 413 Indigenous peoples: agriculture and traditional knowledge, 172, 420; Amazon rainforest and, 176–7; ‘biodiversity hot spots’ and, 417–18; Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities, 163, 392; Chad pastoralists advocate for ancestral agroecological practices, 177, 178–9; climate justice leadership, elevating voices in, 418–19; colonialism and, 162, 387–8, 399–400, 411; COP26 and, 204; ‘divest-invest’ strategies, 412; drought and, 399; environmental philosophy, 420; front-line communities, 392; geoengineering and, 234; as land defenders, 49; land management of, 107; Lumad, 401; rewilding and, 351; Sámi see Sámi individual action, 5, 278, 283, 284, 324–43, 426, 433–4; activism see activism; apathy, overcoming climate, 337–9; boycotts, 327; buying/using less, 434; culture wars, avoiding, 433; diet and, 340–43, 433–4; democracy, defending, 433; education, self- 324–7, 433; influential/high-profile public figures committing to personal actions, 329; lifestyles, 1.5 °C, 331–6; most affected people in the most affected areas (MAPA) and, 433; personal responsibility for climate change, fossil fuel industry role in promoting idea of, 29, 326–7, 330; scepticism and, 434; systematic change and, 327 Indonesia, 14, 258, 282, 296, 313–17, 383, 384–5, 408–9 Industrial Revolution, 18, 19, 22, 24, 50, 155, 162, 219, 344, 372, 392, 411 industry: disconnection from public consciousness, 260; electrifying industrial processes, 260–61; industrial chemicals, 53, 121, 237; industrial inertia on decarbonization, 258; mapping emissions in, 256–9, 257, 258, 259 inequality, 42; climate change linked to, 42, 132, 138, 182–5, 184, 316, 358, 389, 398; climate reparations and, 410–14, 429; economic growth and, 133; EVs and, 272; fascism and, 181; geopolitics and, 316; Global North and Global South see Global North and Global South; individual carbon rights and, 407–8; just transition and, 377, 390, 391, 395, 396; middle class, rise of global and, 282; redistribution and, 405–9, 406; taxes and see taxes; urbanized populations and, 138–9; vector-borne disease and, 143; World Inequality Database, 406; World Inequality Report (2022), 407 inertia, 79, 220–21, 258 infectious disease: Covid-19 see Covid-19; Great Dying and, 387; green barrier against spread of, 101; nutrient reductions and, 149–50; zoonotic, 133 influential/high-profile public figures committing to personal actions, 329 information, consumption of, 286 Informed Citizens for the Environment, 30 insects, 104, 108, 110–12, 113, 114, 115, 144, 150, 172, 360, 378 Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), 30 Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), 187 insurance rates, 193 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 36, 40, 52, 57–8, 97, 125, 171, 192, 324, 337, 372, 380, 402; First Assessment Report (1990), 26, 28, 39, 204, 205, 235, 337; founded, 20, 26, 157; Third Assessment Report (2001), 39–40, 39, 373; Fifth Assessment Report (2014) 39; Sixth Assessment Report (2021/22), 37–8, 39, 68, 80–81, 158, 427–8 internally displaced people, 167, 181, 187, 188 International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), 269 International Energy Agency (IEA), 228, 261, 272, 298, 306; Covid-19 recovery plan estimates, 217; Energy Technology Perspectives report (2020), 260–61; net zero scenario for CCS capture, 261, 263, 264; World Energy Outlook, 260 International Maritime Organization (IMO), 269 International Monetary Fund (IMF), 217, 383 international travel, 146, 380 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 90 interpersonal influence, 328–9 Irma, hurricane (2017), 170 iron, dietary, 149, 150, 151 iron/iron ore production, 256, 261, 388 irrigation, 10, 55, 73, 168, 171, 183, 245, 246, 255, 341, 342, 343, 402 J Japan, 62, 65, 86, 90, 258, 269, 270, 297, 304 jet stream, 62–6, 63, 64 jobs: exploitation of workers, 362; green, 42, 312, 338, 346, 351, 392–3; just transition and, 377, 391, 392–3; no worker left behind principle, 393, 394; retraining, 376, 393 Jokkmokk, 173–4 Jones, Bryan, 167 journalism, 155, 435 just transition, 187, 377, 390–95, 401 K Kavango Basin, 399–400 Keep America Beautiful lobby group, 295 Kenya, 149–50, 402–4, 413 Keynes, John Maynard, 382 keystone species, 349 Klemetsrud waste facility CCS plant, Norway, 262 Koch brothers, 221 Kolkata, India, 414 Kolyuchin, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation 125, 126–7 Kyoto Protocol (1997), 27, 28, 92, 156, 269 L Lakota people, 387 land theft, 42, 394 land-fill, 87, 140, 281, 282, 291, 294, 296, 297, 333, 425 landslide, 91, 291 land use management, 91, 244–7, 246; agriculture and, 244–55, 246, 249, 250, 251; biodiversity loss and, 109, 212; food systems and, 248–55, 249, 250, 251; forested areas, 99, 103, 230, 245, 246; mixed use, 253, 254; reflectance, 55; wildfires and, 96, 99 La Niña, 64, 166 lawsuits, big polluter, 280 Leishmaniasis, 143 liability, climate change, 159, 357 life expectancy, 292, 386–7 Lindqvist, Sven: Exterminate all the Brutes, 388 lobbying, 30, 218, 222, 227, 295, 296, 338, 370 locusts, 149, 156, 378 logging, 100, 102, 325, 356 Lumad, 401 M Maathai, Wangari 402–4 Magnitogorsk, Russia, 213, 214–15 maize, 149, 165, 166, 192, 250, 254, 402 Malaysia, 297, 425 Mali, 172 Manabe, Syukuro, 23, 23n, 25, 306, 382 Manchin, Joe, 221 mangroves, 85, 151, 152–3, 253, 317, 318–19, 345, 346, 350 manure, 140–41, 248, 252–3 Maria, hurricane, 170 marine protected areas, 347 Markey, Ed, 382 Marshall, Alfred, 331, 333, 335 material efficiency strategies, 259, 264 material footprints, national, 311, 311 Mauritian dodo, 9 Mayan Forest, 417 McNeill, J.

How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal From Your Past, and Create Your Self by Nicole Lepera

autism spectrum disorder, BIPOC, delayed gratification, epigenetics, fear of failure, global pandemic, meta-analysis, microbiome, nocebo, placebo effect, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), sugar pill, twin studies

Any behavior that kept us alive—fed and housed—would be repeated and favored by the homeostatic impulse, all without our actively making a choice in the matter. Today in our world of relative comfort (speaking from a developed-world perspective), our minds and bodies have not evolved past that reactive state in which everything unfamiliar or slightly uncomfortable is viewed as a threat. There is also the reality that Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) living in even the developed world face daily threats from our oppressive systems. Because of these instinctually driven reactions, when we try to change our habits many of us remain trapped in cycles of disempowerment. Instead of understanding that this comes from an evolutionarily honed body response, we tend to shame ourselves.

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abuse, 125 by parent-figure, 121, 122 sexual, 40–41, 121–22, 133–35 acknowledgment, parent-figure who does not see or hear you and, 49–51, 60, 166, 174 activation symptoms, 83 adaptive coping strategies, 57–58, 68, 276 addiction, 44 sexual, 123 substance use recovery and, xi, 7 trauma bonding and, 162–63 traumatic bonding as, 163 see also emotional addiction adrenal glands, 68, 73, 104 adrenaline, 68, 80, 86, 96 Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents (Gibson), 210 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) test, 41, 43–44, 67, 125 affirmations, daily, 120 aging: physical exercise and, 100 power of belief and, 33–34 Ainsworth, Mary, 124 allostasis, 68, 275 amygdala, 68 analytic mind, 275 anger, 55, 56, 58, 80, 118, 236 anger, awakening latent feelings of, 215–17 Anthony, 121–23, 133–35 anxiety, xxi, 3, 5, 23, 30, 44, 70, 94, 96, 109, 118, 170, 172, 208, 228, 229, 231, 248 LePera’s experience of, xvii, 25, 42, 65, 66, 96, 159 social, 76, 82, 126, 226 anxious-resistant infants, 125 appearance: parent-figure overly focused on, 53–54, 167–68, 176 social anxiety and, 226 approach/withdrawal patterning, 169–70, 171 attachment, attachment theory, 275 in adulthood, 160–62 in infancy, 124–26, 160 attachment symptoms, 83 attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), 94, 98 attention muscle: developing, 31–32 authentic love, 171–73, 275 autism spectrum disorder, 94 autoimmune disorders, 8, 69, 89 autonomic nervous system, 72, 77, 78, 90, 97–98, 105, 111, 183, 190, 275 regulating responses of, 90 autopilot, xxii, 21, 28–29, 33, 147, 275 homeostatic impulse and, 29–30 avoidant infants, 125 awakenings, xiii, xix, 11, 25, 207–9, 245, 254 of LePera, xvi–xvii, 25–26, 208–9, 217–20 Bazely, Ally, 17–19, 88–90 Becoming the Iceman (Hof), 99 behavior modeling, 275 beliefs, 107–20, 275 child’s stories about parent-figures and, 107–10 core, 108–11, 118–19, 276 Do the Work: Do a Core Beliefs Inventory, 118–19 FSJ: Creating a New Belief, 119–20 of LePera, 108–10 origin of, 110–12 power of, 33–34 as practiced thoughts, 110, 119 beta state, 116 Betrayal Bond, The (Carnes), 160–61 Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), 30, 45, 70, 71 blood sugar, 95 body connection meditation, 238–39 bottom-up processes, 89–91 boundaries, 179–205, 212, 275 Do the Work: Create a New Boundary, 199–205 emotional dumping and, 189–90 emotional symptoms and, 83 enmeshment and, 181–82, 184, 187, 190–91 expectations and, 195–96 with family, set by LePera, 196–99, 219, 261–62 how to set and maintain, 190–95, 202–5 mental/emotional, 187–88, 200 niceness as barrier to work on, 183–84 oversharing and, 188–89 parent-figure who does not model, 52–53, 61–62, 167, 175 physical, 186, 199 resource, 186–87, 200 rigid, loose, and flexible, 184–85 boundarylessness, 83, 187, 188, 189, 197, 227 Bowen, Murray, 126 Bowlby, John, 124 Bradshaw, John, 127–28, 133 brain: fear center of, 68 gut’s connection to, 71–72, 94; see also vagus nerve impact of stress on, 69 in infancy and childhood, 112, 113–16, 125–26 inflammation in, 94 neuroplasticity and, 32–33, 87, 278 physical exercise and, 100 prefrontal cortex of, 26, 33, 208 reticular activating system (RAS) and, 111–12, 118, 130 top-down processes and, 90 Breath (Nestor), 98 breathwork, 241 FSJ: Breathwork, 106 healing with, 90, 97–100 Brown, Stuart, 214 Buddha, 27 cardiovascular exercise, 100 caretaker archetype, 129, 135–36, 180 Carnes, Patrick, 160–61 change: in brain, neuroplasticity and, 32–33, 87, 278 resistance to, 29 childhood, 112–18 archetypes of trauma in, 48–55, 165, 174; see also parent-figures authentic Self in, 51, 113, 116–18, 128, 181–82 conditioning in, 46–47, 77–78 core beliefs about ourselves and our place in the world formed in, 108–13, 115, 116–18 co-regulation in, 77–78, 82, 114, 232 dependency and vulnerability in, 45, 107, 113–14, 124, 146 digestive issues resulting from chronic stress in, 91–92 egocentric state in, 115, 143, 276 fantasies about, 130–31 idealized view of, 112, 130 identifying wounds from, 59–63 impact of adverse experiences in, xvi imprinting in, 114 limited understanding of parent-figures in, 107–10 sexual abuse in, 40–41, 121–22, 133–35 trauma bonds learned and conditioned in, 161, 163 see also infancy childlike part of ourselves, 128 see also inner child childlike wonder, 214–15, 222–23 Christine, 39–41, 43, 48 codependency, 118, 129, 130, 135–36, 138, 217, 251, 254, 261 cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), xxii, 5–6 cold therapy, 90, 98–99 collective “we,” 251–54 comfort zone, 29–30, 163–64 community: power of, 247–48 SelfHealer, 246–47 compassion, xvii, 33, 73, 105, 144, 151, 171, 196, 211, 212, 234 compassion, for other people in relationships, 196 conditioning, 6, 28–29, 59, 275–76 in childhood, 46–47, 77–78 confirmation of bias, 111 consciousness, conscious Self, xxi, xxiii, xxiv, 23–37, 257, 276 developing attention muscle and, 31–32 Do the Work: Build Consciousness, 36 FSJ: Consciousness Building, 37 LePera’s introduction to concept of, 25–26, 259 neuroplasticity and, 32–33 power of thoughts and, 33–34 prefrontal cortex as seat of, 26, 33, 208 subconscious Self and, 28–29 witnessing yourself and, 34–35 see also subconscious; unconscious coping strategies, adaptive and maladaptive, 57–58, 68, 276 core beliefs, 108–11, 118–19, 276 LePera’s creation of, 108–10 co-regulation, 77–78, 82, 102, 114, 232, 247, 252–53, 276 cortisol, 68, 73, 80, 104, 157, 228, 276 critical inner parent, 276 cytokines, 69, 81, 93–94 daydreaming, 130–31 “Day in the Life of Doing the Work, A,” 256–57 default patterns: breaking free of, 32–33 homeostatic impulse and, 29–30 practiced thought and, 110 delta state, 115 Denworth, Lydia, 248 denying a child’s reality, 48–49, 60 dependency: in childhood, 45, 107, 113–14, 124, 146 traumatic bonding and, 160–61, 162 see also codependency depression, 3, 5, 14, 18, 33, 70, 94, 96, 112, 122, 123, 182, 190, 208, 214, 248 diet, xv, 39–40, 89, 91, 93, 94–96 dieting, 13, 53 digestive system, 72 intermittent fasting and, 95–96 problems in, 8, 70, 91–92, 93 “rest and digest” and, 72, 82, 279 discipline, loving, 212–13, 221, 233 disempowerment, 30 disorganized-disoriented infants, 125 dissociation, 40–41, 43, 57, 58, 65, 75, 134, 158, 159, 168, 169, 208, 228–29, 276 immobilization (freezing) and, 75 distress tolerance (endurance), 276 dopamine, 80, 164 dream states, 27 dysbiosis (leaky gut), 93–94 dysregulation, see nervous system dysregulation ego, 141–55 activation of, 144–45, 149–50 allowing to introduce itself, 147–48 defensive stance of, 143, 144–45 having a friendly encounter with, 148 naming, 148–49 projections of, 145–47, 150–51 egocentric state, 115, 143, 276 ego consciousness, 151–53, 155, 277 ego stories, xxiii, 141–55, 162, 257 choosing new narratives and, 148 creation of, 142–43 of LePera, 141–42, 151–53 witnessing, 147–51 emotional addiction, 7, 78–81, 110, 173, 228–29, 277 emotional dumping and, 189–90 typical day of, 79 emotional dumping, 189–90, 277 emotional immaturity, 209–10, 225–26, 235–36, 237, 277 emotional maturity, xvii, xxiii, 225–42, 243, 277 ability to tolerate distress and, 231–32 cultivating in children, 232–34 Do the Work: Develop Emotional Maturity amd Resilience, 238–42 FSJ: Emotional Body Check-in, 239 inner, beams outward, 236–37 meditation and, 236 soothing and, 230–31, 240 emotional regulation, 228, 277 parent-figure incapable of, 4–5, 54–57, 62–63, 168, 177 reparenting and, 212, 220–21 emotional resilience, 55, 168, 209, 228, 277 emotional symptoms, 83 emotions: of child, parent-figure’s denial of, 48–49, 60 ninety-second rule of, 228–30 reconnect with and rediscover, 238–39 empowerment consciousness, 153, 155, 277 enduring activities, 241–42 enmeshment, 161, 181–82, 184, 187, 190–91, 277 enteric nervous system (ENS), 92–93, 277 epigenetics, xxii, 11–13, 87 expectations, boundaries and, 195–96 family systems theory, 126 fantasies, childhood, 130–31 fasting, intermittent, 95–96 fight-or-flight response, 68, 69–70, 72, 73–74, 75, 81, 114, 277 healing play and, 102 flow state, 102 Folkman, Susan, 57 food choices, 91 food dissociation, 39–40 freezing, see immobilization Friendship (Denworth), 248 friendship, authentic, 248–50 future, planning for, 26 Future Self Journaling (FSJ), 21, 277–78 Breathwork, 106 Changing Ego Consciousness to Empowerment Consciousness, 155 Consciousness Building, 37 Creating a New Belief, 119–20 Creating Interdependence, 255–57 Emotional Body Check-in, 239 Restoring Balance, 85 gastrointestinal (GI) problems, 70, 81–82, 91–92 Gazipura, Aziz, 183–84 genes, epigenetics and, xxii, 11–13, 87 Gibson, Lindsay, 46, 210, 225–26 Gottman, John, 167 grief, unresolved feelings of, 31 grounding yourself, 241 groupthink, 187 Gurdjieff, George, xi gut, 91–96 brain’s connections to, 71–72, 92; see also vagus nerve diet and, 91, 93, 94–96 dysbiosis, or leaky gut, 93–94 enteric nervous system (ENS) in, 92–93, 277 gastrointestinal (GI) problems and, 70, 81–82, 92, 93–94 intermittent fasting and, 95–96 microbiome in, 70, 92, 93, 94, 105 gut-brain axis, 92 habits, homeostatic impulse and, 29–30 Hazan, Cindy, 160 Hermetic traditions, xi hero worshiper archetype, 130, 138–39 hitting rock bottom, LePera’s experience of, xv–xvi, xvii Hof, Wim, 98–99 Holistic Psychologist, The, xvii–xix, 246–47, 249–50 Holistic Psychology, xxi–xxv, 259–60, 278 basic tenets of, 16 LePera’s path to creation of, 3–8 Homecoming (Bradshaw), 128 homeostasis, 78, 163, 189–90, 218, 228, 230, 252–53, 278 challenged by stress, 67, 68 regaining, 89, 91, 103; see also mind-body healing practices vagus nerve and, 72, 78 homeostatic impulse, 29–30, 278 hypervigilance symptoms, 83 icing behavior, 54–55, 56, 166 idealization, 47, 112, 130, 179, 180 identical twin studies, 12 identity, core beliefs about, 110–11, 112 immobilization (freezing), 68, 75, 80, 101, 114 immune system, 68–69, 93–94, 103, 105 imperfections, acceptance of your own, 233, 234 imprinting, 12, 41, 46, 53, 59, 114 indecisiveness (cd!!!)

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There is not one question in the ACEs test about overt racism—such as discrimination and abuse, which are obvious forms of racial trauma—let alone any reference to the subtler, more pervasive and harmful forms of bigotry and bias that exist in the infrastructure of society. When you live in a world that is unsupportive and outright threatening—in the education system, prison system, health care system, and most workplaces—you are existing in an almost constant state of trauma. Marginalized groups, especially BIPOC, are navigating systemic oppression, discriminatory laws, and a prejudicial framework that may place them squarely into “a state of relative helplessness,” the essence of Scaer’s definition of trauma. In other words, traumatic experiences aren’t always obvious. Our perception of the trauma is just as valid as the trauma itself.

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Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs by Jamie Fiore Higgins

Bear Stearns, Bernie Madoff, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, glass ceiling, messenger bag, money market fund, short selling, zero-sum game

As an employee active in recruiting, I knew the firm recruited from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to find new hires. Hiring Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) candidates, especially at the entry level, was a priority from the executive office. In fact, in 2019, after I’d left, Goldman set a goal that 25 percent of their new hires should be Black and Hispanic/Latino. Looking back, I could count on one hand the number of BIPOC people I’d closely worked with at Goldman in two decades. So even though the company hired diverse candidates, they couldn’t retain them; but with this environment, that didn’t surprise me.

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Make those representation goals the same at the managing director and partner levels. If you are so concerned about having women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ among your ranks, shepherd them as their careers advance, making sure they have the support they need to be successful, instead of just hiring them and letting them fend for themselves. They aren’t invited to the scotch tastings and rounds of golf where the cis-white guys find their “Godfathers,” so create a “Guardian Angel” program for women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ hires, where these Angels have a sincere interest in their mentees’ success, from new hire all the way up to managing partner.

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After living within these walls for so many years, I discovered that in order to be successful, I had to break through the stereotypes they built for me and become Mike’s enforcer and adopt his good ol’ boys’ values. If I hadn’t, I would’ve never been successful and instead would’ve been forced out. I hated who I became because of it, and I would soon leave. Despite what the firm proclaimed from the executive office, about bringing up more women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ candidates, in my experience that’s the opposite of what they wanted or what their environment engendered. As I nursed my drink, Sarah, another managing director mother in the division, found me at the bar. I couldn’t help but cringe inside because, despite our shared rank, we had little else in common.

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How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement by Fredrik Deboer

2021 United States Capitol attack, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, anti-communist, Bernie Sanders, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, centre right, collective bargaining, coronavirus, COVID-19, data science, David Brooks, defund the police, deindustrialization, delayed gratification, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, effective altruism, false flag, Ferguson, Missouri, George Floyd, global pandemic, helicopter parent, income inequality, lockdown, obamacare, Occupy movement, open immigration, post-materialism, profit motive, QAnon, Silicon Valley, single-payer health, social distancing, TikTok, upwardly mobile, W. E. B. Du Bois, We are the 99%, working poor, zero-sum game

You might consider the narrowing of “people of color” to “BIPOC,” Black and Indigenous people of color. The purpose of that distinction is to underline the greater oppression that Black and Indigenous Americans have endured than other people of color. And they probably have. The operative question, though, is: What is the political value of dividing progressive constituencies up into smaller and smaller groups? How does that help anyone achieve any of their specific aims, including BIPOC people? Maybe other people of color will better understand the plight of BIPOC people and feel more sympathetic. Or maybe non-BIPOC POC will absorb the lesson that BIPOC people are not like them, not part of their circle or movement or clan, and care less about their plight.

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George Floyd was killed in the street, and investment banks adopted new corporate sensitivity policies. George Floyd was killed in the street, and defense contractors updated their employee handbooks. George Floyd was killed in the street, and universities made their language codes for faculty even more stringent. George Floyd was killed in the street, and the term “BIPOC”—that’s Black and Indigenous people of color, to better highlight the most oppressed—replaced “people of color,” itself a replacement of older terms. This is the way left politics works now: we respond to tangible horror by clinging tighter and tighter to the intangible. Perhaps the effort to make interpersonal relations between white and Black people more respectful for the latter sometimes works.

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Finally, nonprofits are subject to complaints about elitism and lack of representation. A common complaint is that the people who work for nonprofits do not look like the communities they serve. Sevetri Wilson, the founder of a technology company that develops platforms for nonprofit organizations, wrote in 2020, “There isn’t just a lack of BIPOC representation in nonprofits—there are also rooted inequities that determine which organizations receive funding and the level of support they can expect over time.” This is a boilerplate complaint about charitable organizations that work in high-poverty areas; the specter of the clueless white do-gooder descending on a community of color looms large.

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Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer

affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alan Greenspan, anti-bias training, anti-communist, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, blue-collar work, Branko Milanovic, British Empire, business cycle, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, collective bargaining, coronavirus, COVID-19, crony capitalism, defund the police, deindustrialization, desegregation, disinformation, Donald Trump, failed state, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Ferguson, Missouri, fulfillment center, full employment, George Floyd, ghettoisation, gig economy, glass ceiling, informal economy, Jeff Bezos, knowledge economy, liberal capitalism, lockdown, Lyft, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, meritocracy, minimum wage unemployment, new economy, Norman Mailer, obamacare, off-the-grid, postindustrial economy, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, QAnon, ride hailing / ride sharing, road to serfdom, Ronald Reagan, school vouchers, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, too big to fail, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, Upton Sinclair, white flight, working poor, young professional

Most Just Americans still belong to the meritocracy and have no desire to give up its advantages. They can’t escape the status anxieties of Smart America—only they’ve transferred them to the new narrative. They want to be the first to adopt its expert terminology. In the summer of 2020 people suddenly began saying “BIPOC” as if they’d been doing it all their lives. (“Black Indigenous People of Color” was a way to uncouple groups that had been aggregated under “people of color” and give them their rightful place in the moral order, with everyone from Bogotá to Karachi to Seoul bringing up the rear.) The whole atmosphere of Just America at its most constricted—the fear of failing to say the right thing, the urge to level withering fire on minor faults—is a variation on the fierce competitive spirit of Smart America.

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For some Americans, especially educated white ones, the summer of 2020 became a season of white fragility, anti-Blackness, implicit bias, racial reckoning, allyship, and the “Fourth Founding” (after 1776, 1863, and 1965). This activism shifted the scene from blighted urban neighborhoods and prisons to human resources departments, anti-bias training sessions, and BIPOC reading lists. It was less interested in social reform than a revolution in consciousness. The pandemic almost disappeared from mind as millions of white people experienced the kind of collective moral awakening that comes over Americans in different periods of our history. These awakenings can take on the contours of religious experience, a particularly American one—sin, denunciation, confession, atonement, redemption, heresy hunting, book burning, and the dream of paradise.

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Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business by Julie Battilana, Tiziana Casciaro

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", "World Economic Forum" Davos, Abraham Maslow, affirmative action, agricultural Revolution, Albert Einstein, algorithmic bias, Andy Rubin, Asperger Syndrome, benefit corporation, Big Tech, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, blood diamond, Boris Johnson, British Empire, call centre, Cass Sunstein, classic study, clean water, cognitive dissonance, collective bargaining, conceptual framework, coronavirus, COVID-19, CRISPR, deep learning, different worldview, digital rights, disinformation, Elon Musk, Erik Brynjolfsson, fake news, feminist movement, fundamental attribution error, future of work, George Floyd, gig economy, Greta Thunberg, hiring and firing, impact investing, income inequality, informal economy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invention of movable type, Jeff Bezos, job satisfaction, Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh, Mahatma Gandhi, means of production, mega-rich, meritocracy, meta-analysis, Milgram experiment, moral hazard, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, Occupy movement, Panopticon Jeremy Bentham, principal–agent problem, profit maximization, Ralph Waldo Emerson, ride hailing / ride sharing, Salesforce, School Strike for Climate, Second Machine Age, shareholder value, sharing economy, Sheryl Sandberg, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, Steven Pinker, surveillance capitalism, tacit knowledge, tech worker, the scientific method, The Wisdom of Crowds, TikTok, Tim Cook: Apple, transatlantic slave trade, union organizing, zero-sum game

“Algorithms are opinions embedded in code,” as mathematician Cathy O’Neil put it, and assuming that their output is always “objective” leads us to dissociate it from human responsibility and accountability.28 The people making these important choices are coders and computer engineers. Who these people are and how they work can also introduce bias into the algorithms they build. Only a small percentage of the technical employees at companies like Apple and Facebook are women and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color).29 Yet diverse perspectives are critical to identifying biases and applying critical lenses to testing and tweaking algorithms. Also, for the most part, their employers are corporations, and they are acting on the orders of executives who, in turn, are accountable to investors, who expect profits.

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., 114 Barefoot College’s innovation, 144–46, 148, 161 Bastida, Xiye, 121–24 Beard, Mary, 101 Beauvoir, Simone de, 102 belonging, 2, 7, 58, 82, 105, 118, 133, 168, 187, 194, 221n40 See also valued resources: affiliation benefit corporations (B-Corps), 176 Bentham, Jeremy, 151, 245n30 Berners-Lee, Tim, 147, 148 betweenness, 79–81, 79, 153 Bhatia, Karan, 157 bias algorithmic, 150–51 fundamental attribution error, 16 negativity bias, 19 status quo bias, 74 confirmation bias, 88 See also stereotypes, racism, gender inequality BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), 88, 117, 151, 196 Björkman, Tomas, 187, 188, 258n83 Black Lives Matter movement, 117, 139, 141, 147–48 Black Voters Matter Fund, 190 Blau, Peter M., 261n4 Bloomberg, Michael, 130 Boards of Directors, 66, 86–89, 91–92, 128–130, 157, 169, 174–177, 188 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 47 Bourdieu, Pierre, 231n26, 232n34 Brass, Daniel J., 226n12 Brave New World (Huxley), 164 Brock, Timothy, 135 Brodsky, Greg, 162–63 Brown, LaTosha, 190–91 Browner, Carol, 80, 81, 84 Buddhism, 32–33 Buffett, Warren, 114 Buolamwini, Joy, 150 Burke, Tarana, 137 Burt, Ronald S., 227n25, 228n36, 236n66 Business Roundtable, 175–76 Caesar, Julius, 101 Cailliau, Robert, 147, 148 Capital (Marx), 110 Carnegie, Andrew, 110–11 Caro, Robert A., 14–15 Carus, Titus Lucretius, 41 caste system, 91–92 Castells, Manuel, 199, 231n26, 239n2, 261n9 Catholic Church, 131, 135 certified coaches, 5, 209n4 change-makers, 74, 78 Channapatna artisans, 47, 50 chattel slavery, 91–92 checks on power, 165–92 collective responsibility, 189–92 employee representation, 177–82 organizational power sharing, 167–73, 191–92 oversight and accountability, 173–77 societal power sharing, 182–84, 192, 256n63 structural limits, 165–66 See also civic education and engagement, civic vigilance Chenoweth, Erica, 124 Chomsky, Noam, 219n25, 257n77 Cialdini, Robert B., 210n15, 227n23 Citizens United, 118 civic education and engagement, 184–88 civic vigilance, 184–86, 192, 257n74, 257n79 Civil Rights Act, 14 Clegg, Stewart, 236n64, 262n22 Cleisthenes, 182, 256n63 climate science, 45–46 Clinton, Bill, 80 Coats, Michael, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171 Code of Hammurabi, 100–01 codetermination, 181 Cohen, Joshua, 257n75, 259n96 collective action consolidation strategy, 11–12, 111, 112 Google employees story, 154–58 keeping power in check, 192 power distribution responsibility, 195 shifting power balance and, 115, 178–79 collective movements, 117–39 agitation, 118–20, 137, 154, 195, 196, 239n6 digital technology and, xvii, 137–39, 154–58, 242n40 innovation, 119–20, 125–30, 147–49, 154, 195, 196 orchestration, 119–20, 131–37, 154, 195, 196 public agenda and, 120–25 shifting power balance, 115 collective orientation, 32, 36, 195 collective responsibility, 189–92 Community Interest Companies, 176 concentration of wealth, 162, 175–76, 189–90 confirmation bias, 88 Confucius, 55 consolidation strategy, 8, 9, 11–12, 111, 112, 142, 194 Contract with America (Gingrich), 80 Cook, Tim, 158 cooperatives, 162–63, 179–81 Cordeiro, Vera, 27–29, 33, 38–39, 166 Courpasson, David, 247n57, 262n22 COVID-19, 38, 49, 176 Creighton, Mandell, 24 CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats), 162, 164, 249n79 Crozier, Michel, 225n6 Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 42 Cuddy, Amy J.

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Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam by Vivek Ramaswamy

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", "World Economic Forum" Davos, 2021 United States Capitol attack, activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, affirmative action, Airbnb, Amazon Web Services, An Inconvenient Truth, anti-bias training, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, carbon footprint, clean tech, cloud computing, contact tracing, coronavirus, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, COVID-19, critical race theory, crony capitalism, cryptocurrency, defund the police, deplatforming, desegregation, disinformation, don't be evil, Donald Trump, en.wikipedia.org, Eugene Fama: efficient market hypothesis, fudge factor, full employment, George Floyd, glass ceiling, global pandemic, green new deal, hiring and firing, Hyperloop, impact investing, independent contractor, index fund, Jeff Bezos, lockdown, Marc Benioﬀ, Mark Zuckerberg, microaggression, military-industrial complex, Network effects, Parler "social media", plant based meat, Ponzi scheme, profit maximization, random walk, ride hailing / ride sharing, risk-adjusted returns, Robert Bork, Robinhood: mobile stock trading app, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, self-driving car, shareholder value, short selling, short squeeze, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley billionaire, Silicon Valley ideology, single source of truth, Snapchat, social distancing, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, source of truth, sovereign wealth fund, Susan Wojcicki, the scientific method, Tim Cook: Apple, too big to fail, trade route, transcontinental railway, traveling salesman, trickle-down economics, Vanguard fund, Virgin Galactic, WeWork, zero-sum game

You have to embrace the whole LGBTQ acronym. Feminism too, but not the trans-exclusionary kind. And the acronyms that function as lists of commandments keep growing. Last time I checked, it had become something like LGBTTQQIAAP. There’s a new acronym making its way around: BIPOC, for “Black, Indigenous, People of Color.” It used to just be “people of color.” BIPOC is all the rage in universities these days, which means it’s a year away from being fashionable in corporate boardrooms. The point of the updated acronym is to deemphasize Asian Americans in the list of identities that matter. The high priests of Diversity decided Asians were privileged, or “white-adjacent,” so they updated their acronym-commandments to demote us.

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Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America by Garrett Neiman

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Albert Einstein, basic income, Bernie Sanders, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, Branko Milanovic, British Empire, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carried interest, clean water, confounding variable, coronavirus, COVID-19, critical race theory, dark triade / dark tetrad, data science, Donald Trump, drone strike, effective altruism, Elon Musk, gender pay gap, George Floyd, glass ceiling, green new deal, high net worth, Home mortgage interest deduction, Howard Zinn, impact investing, imposter syndrome, impulse control, income inequality, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Epstein, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, knowledge worker, Larry Ellison, liberal capitalism, Lyft, Mahatma Gandhi, mandatory minimum, Mark Zuckerberg, mass incarceration, means of production, meritocracy, meta-analysis, Michael Milken, microaggression, mortgage tax deduction, move fast and break things, Nelson Mandela, new economy, obamacare, occupational segregation, offshore financial centre, Paul Buchheit, Peter Thiel, plutocrats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, randomized controlled trial, rent-seeking, Ronald Reagan, Rutger Bregman, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, sovereign wealth fund, Steve Jobs, subprime mortgage crisis, TED Talk, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, Travis Kalanick, trickle-down economics, uber lyft, universal basic income, Upton Sinclair, War on Poverty, white flight, William MacAskill, winner-take-all economy, women in the workforce, work culture , working poor

The person who most helped me wrap my head around this idea is Ed Whitfield, an activist in Greensboro, North Carolina, who has been working to advance racial justice since he organized protests at Cornell in the 1960s.3 For decades, Ed has been a force for social change within philanthropy: as the head of the Fund for Democratic Communities from 1997 to 2020, Ed oversaw a spend-down approach that depleted the fund’s endowment by investing significant capital into marginalized communities.4 In recent years, Ed has also been a leader within the Black Land and Power Coalition, a strategic alignment of organizations focused on keeping Black-owned land in Black hands.5 As part of his involvement in that effort, he coaches philanthropists participating in Reparations Summer, a program that supports white donors in giving to BIPOC-led food and land initiatives without strings attached, so organizations can decide for themselves where and how to use those resources to have the most impact.6 When Ed teaches about the need for repair, he often relays a story he was first told by Reverend Bugani Finca, who was involved in South Africa’s truth and reconciliation work: A Black South African, Tabo, confronted a white man, Mr.

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I am heartened by change agents like Chad Dyer, a rich white man who shifted his focus from venture capital to galvanizing other wealthy white people to join him in signing the Good Life Pledge, a philanthropic commitment to transfer one-third of their families’ assets to Black, brown, and Indigenous communities; Jason Franklin, who advises a number of progressive donors and change agents; Justin Haas, who cofounded Men For Equity and Reproductive Justice, which invites men to move past guilt and shame and support womxn- and BIPOC-led reproductive health and abortion rights organizations; Mike Gast and Adam Roberts, who have helped to grow Resource Generation into a major force for progressive change; and Chris Westcott, who educates other donors through his staff position at the Solidaire Network. And of course, I’m not only talking about rich white men as sources of inspiration.

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Those relationships include a diverse group of friends and colleagues who read drafts and provided feedback, including several Black and Indigenous activists who received honorariums for their contributions; allen kwabena frimpong, a pioneer in social justice philanthropy who is advising me on this project and has consent rights for major decisions related to the royalties collaborative; and my publisher, Krishan Trotman, one of the highest-ranking Black women in Big 5 publishing and the head of Legacy Lit, an imprint of Hachette that is focused on social justice and primarily publishes BIPOC authors. Throughout this process, Krishan has guided me to speak as much as possible from my own experience, not on behalf of activists who have their own stories to tell and can make many points far better than I ever could. That said, I know that intentions don’t always align with impact and that good intentions are often not enough.

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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

barriers to entry, behavioural economics, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, classic study, cognitive dissonance, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, en.wikipedia.org, epigenetics, fake news, financial independence, Girl Boss, growth hacking, hive mind, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Epstein, Keith Raniere, Kickstarter, late capitalism, lockdown, loss aversion, LuLaRoe, Lyft, multilevel marketing, off-the-grid, passive income, Peoples Temple, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Ponzi scheme, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, QAnon, Ronald Reagan, Russell Brand, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, side hustle, Silicon Valley, Skype, Social Justice Warrior, Stanford prison experiment, Steve Jobs, sunk-cost fallacy, tech bro, the scientific method, TikTok, uber lyft, women in the workforce, Y2K

And while I agree that you can’t really compare SoulCycle and CrossFit to the likes of Heaven’s Gate and Scientology, inclusivity isn’t the reason. Why would they have dedicated so much energy to creating a whole exclusive code language, if it were? Needless to say, most Americans can’t afford to spend thousands (if not tens of thousands) a year on exercise. Not to mention the millions of folks who are BIPOC, disabled, and/or above a size 4, whom the messaging of these studios often subtly or overtly ostracizes. Many high-end workout studios adopt a very similar version of the white feminist #girlboss messaging that can be found in MLMs. (I probably shouldn’t have been surprised when, a few months after our interview, Sparkie the SoulCycle instructor became a distributor for “nontoxic” skincare MLM Arbonne, #bossbabe Instagram posts and all.)

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In 2018, I investigated the growing phenomenon of “Instagram witches” for Cosmopolitan.com, and what I found was a diverse coalition of millennial women and nonbinary people growing devoted digital followings with whom they attentively engaged over recipes for plant-based tinctures and astrological insights. This community of online witches seemed like a haven for many LGBTQ+ and BIPOC folks who felt unwelcome in so many old-school religious spaces. They’d be practicing their craft either way; Instagram simply gave them a platform to share it and make a real living out of it. Almost everyone I investigated seemed genuinely motivated by helping people above anything else, and no one used the thought-terminating clichés, circuitous euphemisms, or other intentionally deceptive tactics that we now know constitute the worst kind of cultish language.

How to Work Without Losing Your Mind by Cate Sevilla

Big Tech, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, COVID-19, data science, Desert Island Discs, Donald Trump, emotional labour, gender pay gap, Girl Boss, global pandemic, Google Hangouts, imposter syndrome, job satisfaction, lockdown, microaggression, period drama, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, remote working, Sheryl Sandberg, side project, Skype, tech bro, TED Talk, women in the workforce, work culture

Just as, globally, the gender wage gap gets larger when you factor in ethnicity and race, when it comes to work stress, each additional filter you include means it gets more complex, more acute. So, if you, like me (despite being mixed race), pass as or appear to be white, the way you experience work and stress will be similar to, but still different from, the kind of work stress that a trans colleague, BIPOC, lesbian or disabled colleague will. As Maura Cheeks wrote on the Lenny Letter website,1 ‘Being black and female in the workplace means constantly having to walk a tightrope, balancing your own emotions with the perceptions and intentions of others, making everyone feel comfortable, instead of nervous, in the process.’

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To be curious about the things you don’t understand, and to be vulnerable in your efforts in finding out more. Even though I had a difficult time in the specific team I was working in, I must say that the diversity and inclusion workshops and training sessions made available to me at Google were excellent. I was struck by a senior staff member who shared his own journey to understanding his trans and BIPOC colleagues, and how it took him a long time to overcome his military background’s rigid way of interacting with the people he had worked with, and accept that he had to ask questions and make himself vulnerable (and therefore be brave) in order to finally achieve a more open mindset. Even if these opportunities aren’t immediately available to you within your own organization – seek them out.

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American Marxism by Mark R. Levin

"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations", 2021 United States Capitol attack, affirmative action, American ideology, belling the cat, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, British Empire, carbon tax, centre right, clean water, collective bargaining, colonial exploitation, conceptual framework, coronavirus, COVID-19, creative destruction, critical race theory, crony capitalism, data science, defund the police, degrowth, deindustrialization, deplatforming, disinformation, Donald Trump, energy security, Food sovereignty, George Floyd, green new deal, Herbert Marcuse, high-speed rail, illegal immigration, income inequality, liberal capitalism, lockdown, Mark Zuckerberg, means of production, Michael Shellenberger, microaggression, New Journalism, open borders, Parler "social media", planned obsolescence, rolling blackouts, Ronald Reagan, school choice, school vouchers, single-payer health, tech billionaire, the market place, urban sprawl, yellow journalism

Second, individual whites cannot hide behind any personal history of non-discrimination or the desirability of race-neutral laws or policies because the collective action of their race has been oppressive.”10 In acknowledging their white privilege, La Noue explains that “[w]hites… must support ‘anti-racist’ policies that require various forms of race preferences for non-whites across a variety of fields for an indefinite period. This is required even where whites are a local minority and power structures are controlled by non-whites or Blacks, Indigenous, and People of Color—’BIPOCs’ in the current terminology.”11 In his book Intellectuals and Society, Dr. Thomas Sowell, author, scholar, and professor, denounces the entire multicultural/ identity politics movement. He explains that “[t]he kind of collective justice demanded for racial or ethnic groups is often espoused as ‘social justice,’ since it seeks to undo disparities created by circumstances, as well as those created by the injustices of human beings.

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Who’s Raising the Kids?: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children by Susan Linn

Albert Einstein, algorithmic bias, Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, augmented reality, benefit corporation, Big Tech, big-box store, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, British Empire, cashless society, clean water, coronavirus, COVID-19, delayed gratification, digital divide, digital rights, disinformation, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, fake news, gamification, George Floyd, Howard Zinn, impulse control, Internet of things, Isaac Newton, Jaron Lanier, Jeff Bezos, Kevin Roose, Khan Academy, language acquisition, late fees, lockdown, longitudinal study, Mark Zuckerberg, market design, meta-analysis, Minecraft, neurotypical, new economy, Nicholas Carr, planned obsolescence, plant based meat, precautionary principle, Ralph Nader, RAND corporation, randomized controlled trial, retail therapy, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, Steve Jobs, surveillance capitalism, techlash, theory of mind, TikTok, Tim Cook: Apple

Alana Institute alana.org.br A socioenvironmental impact organization that promotes children’s rights to integral development and fosters new forms of wellbeing. Algorithmic Justice League ajl.org The Algorithmic Justice League is an organization that combines art and research to illuminate the social implications and harms of artificial intelligence. Backyard Basecamp backyardbasecamp.org (Re)connecting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) to land and nature in Baltimore City. Center for Digital Democracy democraticmedia.org CDD works to protect and expand digital rights and data justice through research-led initiatives designed to influence policy makers, corporate leaders, the news media, civil society, and the general public.

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Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed With Alcohol by Holly Glenn Whitaker

BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, cognitive dissonance, deep learning, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, epigenetics, fake news, fixed income, impulse control, incognito mode, Mahatma Gandhi, mass incarceration, medical residency, microaggression, microbiome, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Peter Thiel, Rat Park, rent control, Rosa Parks, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, Steve Jobs, TED Talk, Torches of Freedom, twin studies, WeWork, white picket fence, young professional, zero-sum game

You can use Psychology Today’s website, or try organizations like Alma (helloalma.com) or Two Chairs (twochairs.com), which are brick-and-mortar establishments that house various therapists. If you are looking for a therapist who specializes in EMDR, EFT, or any other specialized therapy, you can search the internet for their organizations or guilds. For example, Traumahealing.org is home to a directory of SE therapists. BIPOC femme-identified individuals can find a therapist through therapyforblackgirls.com. If you are looking for a cost-effective way to get therapy, talkspace.com is an option. If you live near a university with a psychology program, you can sometimes find therapists in training at sliding-scale rates.

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Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo by Rebecca Walker

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, anti-communist, back-to-the-land, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, call centre, clean water, coronavirus, COVID-19, export processing zone, fake news, Ferguson, Missouri, financial independence, gentrification, George Floyd, global pandemic, high net worth, hockey-stick growth, hustle culture, impact investing, invisible hand, Jeff Bezos, job satisfaction, Kickstarter, Mark Zuckerberg, mass incarceration, Maui Hawaii, microaggression, neurotypical, obamacare, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Rana Plaza, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, TED Talk, unpaid internship, upwardly mobile, women in the workforce, working poor, Y Combinator

How are they/we to demonstrate justice and equality? How are they/we to evolve and move forward into self-awareness, self-determination and freedom? This is an urgent matter of equality, true inclusion, and recognition of value—of our daughter’s value. And without a doubt, the value of other students, primarily BIPOC, who are struggling with and utterly exhausted by financial difficulties, who are striving to keep up appearances and critically, to keep up with their education and ambitions, who are trying to embrace their unique strengths and let their passions flourish. Instead of joyful integration, punishing processes like these require painful assimilation and the burden of it is shouldered by students like Sarah and families like ours, and like us.

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Fodor's Oregon by Fodor's Travel Guides

Airbnb, bike sharing, BIPOC, car-free, Kickstarter, Lyft, Mason jar, messenger bag, off grid, off-the-grid, QR code, ride hailing / ride sharing, Rosa Parks, tech bro, tech worker, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, walkable city, Wall-E, white flight, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration

s Sights HAbbey Creek Winery: The Crick North Plains WINERY | This small winery specializes in small batches of Chardonnay and Pinots, with weekend tastings served to hip-hop beats in its cozy North Plains tasting room. Owner-operator Bertony Faustin is the first known Black winemaker in the state and has done much to elevate the voices of BIPOC winemakers, notably through his documentary, Red, White & Black. E 31441 N.W. Commercial St., North Plains P 503/389–0619 w www.abbeycreekvineyard.com A Tastings $20 C Closed weekdays. Downtown Hillsboro Farmers’ Market MARKET | Fresh local produce—some from booths, some from the backs of trucks—as well as local arts and crafts are on sale Saturday from late-April through October.

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Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives by Chris Bruntlett, Melissa Bruntlett

15-minute city, An Inconvenient Truth, autonomous vehicles, bike sharing, BIPOC, car-free, coronavirus, COVID-19, emotional labour, en.wikipedia.org, global pandemic, green new deal, Jane Jacobs, lockdown, Lyft, microplastics / micro fibres, New Urbanism, post-work, RAND corporation, ride hailing / ride sharing, self-driving car, social distancing, streetcar suburb, the built environment, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, urban planning, white flight, working-age population, World Values Survey

From there, he points to high-quality infrastructure that buffers against traffic, as well as increasing access to restorative green space, opportunities for social connection, and developing a sense of community and cohesion. Mazumder, who identifies as a racialized person, also believes it is important to recognize that good infrastructure and access to nature alone won’t mitigate the stress of the city for everyone. He highlights that Black, Indigenous, and people of color also have to contend with police surveillance and racism in these spaces, which can cancel out the restorative effects. Psychologist Dr. Rodney Clark concludes that chronic racial stress results in prolonged activation of the sympathetic nervous system, which has implications on both mental and physical health.

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Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: Toward an Inclusive Somatics by Don Hanlon Johnson

BIPOC, clean water, colonial rule, complexity theory, conceptual framework, deep learning, emotional labour, epigenetics, imposter syndrome, liberation theology, mass incarceration, microaggression, phenotype, randomized controlled trial, W. E. B. Du Bois, working poor

I learn the most about how to work toward tikkun ha-olam from Disability Justice activists, Black feminists, and the healing justice movement. I look to them for their leadership because they offer us ways to tangibly work toward a better world, a world with less suffering and more connection. They were all started by and continue to be led by Black, Indigenous, people of color, trans people, gender nonconforming people, poor people, femmes, disabled people, people living rurally, women, and all combinations and intersections of those identities. It is not a coincidence that the brilliance and genius of how to transform this world, to create what Sonya Renee Taylor describes as a radical self love world—“a world free from the systems of oppression that make it difficult and sometimes deadly to live in our bodies”6—is potently being born every moment from the people and communities most directly targeted by these current systems of violence and oppression. 6 Sonya Renee Taylor, “Making Self Love Radical,” in The Body Is Not an Apology (Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2018), 4.