Nature is not a museum to visit. It is home.

I grew up in one of the biggest cities in the world, surrounded by cars and buildings, and with very little nature around me. My parents would take me to the beach or to the country every once in awhile, and I enjoyed it — but we never hiked, camped, or anything like that, so being in the wild was never really my thing. Until the moment I had no words to describe the beauty in front of my eyes.

That moment happened a few years ago, in the Atacama…

If you are looking for a list of things you need to do to become an environmentalist, spoiler alert: this isn’t it. There is no recipe for that. I didn’t wake up one day thinking “today I will become an environmentalist” or added that to my new year’s resolution list. It was only when I already was an environmentalist that I noticed I became one. But now I can see the small changes that I made and unconsciously led me to the life I live today.

A few years ago, when I was still working for a big corporation, I…

From the moment we wake up in the morning and brush our teeth, to when we watch TV at the end of the day, plastic is all around us. So much so that it can be hard to imagine leaving the supermarket without at least one item that isn’t in a plastic container.

It hasn’t always been like this. In fact, there are people alive today that were born in an almost plastic-free world. Imagine going to the beach and not finding a single piece of washed up plastic trash.

What, in the course of history, caused such a change?